Chaz Bono Debuts 'Becoming Chaz' With Girlfriend (PHOTOS)

Chaz Bono premiered his new documentary, 'Becoming Chaz,' at Sundance over the weekend with girlfriend Jennifer Elia by his side. ++

In the movie, which chronicles his female-to-male transition, Chaz is shown getting breast removal surgery (which "terrified" mom Cher), and talking about his sex life and his recovery from drug addiction, according to E! Online.

Chaz explained to the audience why he chose to do the movie - and is working on a sequel.

"I wanted to do this because I wanted to help people," he said. "And I knew that...I could put a face on this issue that people just don't understand because it's a hard one to understand. I wanted to be able to change people's hearts and minds on this."

Read more at E! Online.

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Comments

[Fortuosity]

12:58 PM on 02/04/2011

I AM OUTRAGED BY THIS COMMENT!

[Quasi-Stellar Object]

03:43 PM on 02/04/2011

Hello Ellen.

Are you often "outraged" by reality? It is a fact that humans cannot change genetic, chromosomal sex.

[De NeurosenKavalier]

01:31 PM on 02/04/2011

I strongly diagree!

[Fortuosity]

10:26 AM on 02/04/2011

HEY MODERATORS, JUST BAN THIS DUDE PERMANENTLY!

[Fortuosity]

10:35 AM on 02/04/2011

Telling the Huffington Post moderators to "SMD", is OFFENSIVE AND NASTY!

HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF COMMON DECENY?

[Fortuosity]

10:37 AM on 02/04/2011

What a dreadful thing to say! I am in tears!

[De NeurosenKavalier]

02:56 PM on 02/01/2011

This comment is offensive and misinformed!

[De NeurosenKavalier]

03:45 PM on 02/01/2011

PURE NONSENSE! You're eating yellow snow and trying to tell us it's lemonade!

[forkuu]

09:58 PM on 01/31/2011

computercats- your response confirms that you choose to remain unenlightenned and would rather attack my opinion rather than learning about the issue ..
if you choose to not understand an issue that will reflect in your response and so it has ..like many on this blog .. unfortunately you are not alone... believe what you want but remember your opinion is not based on knowledge ...

[macewan]

12:06 PM on 01/31/2011

Celebrate happiness.

[Ellen Crescenta]

02:09 PM on 01/29/2011

Denying freedom of choice from any human being to define who they are according to a clinical/b­iological definition is what I've heard some of the commentors warranting here, using VERY pseduo scientific logic to defend it

True understand­­ing of the anthropolo­­gical evolution of man acknowledges that body modificati­­on is a natural, very normal human trait in primitive and civilized societies.

It's only "MUTILATIO­­N" through the eyes of a prejudiced beholder.

And judging by some of the knee jerk comments in response to this story, I'm assuming their background is male, white european, judeo-chri­­stian and non-GLBT sympatheti­­c, where everything outside the realm of a narrowly defined familiarit­­y is unacceptab­­le, deviant and "mutilated­­".

No one forces any person to make the decision to have reassignme­­nt surgery and some choose not to, while others committ to taking it further. But we have a free society and personal choice is available and for many it's the road to the start of a new life.

Would we want abortion to not be available because it's mutiliatio­­n of the mother and her unborn child? There are many in this country who take this stance as well, due to narrow defnition of conception.

Insistance that Chaz is a "transgend­­ered male" when in fact he may think of himself as MALE is divisive labeling and mysogynist­­ic condescenc­­ion.

Does it threaten people that Chaz can now stand side by side with men as a male and thrive in a male world?

[Ellen Crescenta]

10:25 PM on 02/03/2011

HEY QUASI-STELLAR!

Sounds like I hit a nerve. When you get called on your BS, it really ruffles your feather boa doesn't it?

Seriously, all you can resort to in rebuttal is to run spell check? You're scraping the bottom of the barrel now.

And speaking of "tricks", here's a thought, try disappearing PERMANENTLY from HuffPo. It will give us all a welcome break from your "distraction" from intelligent thought.

[hackerblaster]

12:07 PM on 01/29/2011

Quasi-Stellar Object I suggest you contact Huffington Post if you think your account was accessed without your authorization.

[Dolmance]

11:51 AM on 01/29/2011

If I knew them, I would by them a toaster or something.

[Ellen Crescenta]

10:50 AM on 01/29/2011

Denial of freedom of choice for any human being allowing them to define who they are according to clinical/b­iological definition is what you're warranting here in the guise of some VERY convoluted/anal retentive logic.

If you had a genuine understand­­ing of the anthropolo­­gical evolution of man, you'd know that body modificati­­on is a natural, very normal human trait in primitive and civilized societies.

It's only "MUTILATIO­­N" through the eyes of a prejudiced beholder. Judging by your knee jerk response to this story, I'm assuming your background is male, white european, judeo-chri­­stian and non-GLBT sympatheti­­c, where everything outside the realm of your personal and very narrow familiarit­­y is unacceptab­­le, deviant and "mutilated­­".

No one forces any person to make the decision to have reassignme­­nt surgery and some choose not to, while others committ to taking it further. But we have a free society and personal choice is available and for many it's the road to the start of a new life.

Would you want abortion to not be available because it's mutiliatio­­n of the mother and her unborn child? There are many in this country who take this stance as well, due to narrow defnition of conception. DO YOU?

Your insistance that Chaz is a "transgend­­ered male" when in fact he may think of himself as MALE is labeling/mysogynist­­ic condescenc­­ion.

Does it threaten you that Chaz can now stand side by side with you as a man and thrive in your male world?

[hackerblaster]

08:06 AM on 01/29/2011

banned again, huh

[RevKeithRWright]

11:52 PM on 01/28/2011

No. You;re the confused one. We're all fine with this.

[eve mahar]

12:40 AM on 01/29/2011

Nope- just you apparently.

[Lloyd Cartairs]

02:48 PM on 01/28/2011

Redundancy is tragic!

[De NeurosenKavalier]

10:17 PM on 01/28/2011

"While she may be referred to as a man, Bono is "Transgend­­­er Male". Huge distinctio­­­n." - Quasi-Stellar "I OBJECT!"

For those who live as though the rest of the world doesn't exist and enjoy making a big megillah of things, I suppose it is a "huge distinction". BTW, you used "huge distinction" twice.

And just between you me and a lamppost...are you a biological male or an insensitive dolt?

[Lloyd Cartairs]

02:47 PM on 01/28/2011

Chas Bono is precisely what Chas Bono wants to be.

Stop assigning your narrow definitions to this story and casting your cloud of negativity over someone who is happy.

[Quasi-Stellar Object]

03:19 PM on 01/28/2011

Oh, and it's "Chaz". You might try to get it right.

[hackerblaster]

01:21 PM on 01/28/2011

What is your motivation here? Seriously.

Okay then lets use your theory. If a man gets testicular cancer and loses his testosterone factories and has to be placed on hormone therapy is he now a fake man? Does he fit into your category of non-male? Some biological males DO need hormone therapy. So what are they?