Chaz Bono: ‘You Won’t Catch Gender Dysphoria By Watching Me Dance On TV’
Sept. 6 2011, Published 4:30 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
Calling himself “just a regular guy,” Chaz Bono appeared live on ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday in wake of stinging criticism that he should not be allowed to appear on Dancing with the Stars’ new season because he’s transgendered.
Bono, 42, said he hasn’t been paying that much attention to the controversy and that he’s been focused on dancing and said it’s a “much bigger deal to everyone else than it is to me.”
The only child of Cher and the late Sonny Bono told GMA’s George Stephanopoulos: “I’m just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn’t watch me that I’m going to be confusing, all of this stuff, it’s crazy and for all of the kids and teens out there with gender dysphoria, I think it’s going to have a really positive impact. I know that if, when I was growing up, I would have seen someone like me on a show like this, it would have made all the difference in the world in my life.”