Chaz Bono: Extreme Fetish Makeover

Chaz Bono is a lesbian.  Chaz Bono is also a woman, and should always be considered a woman.  Regardless of any surgery, outfit she puts on, hormone therapy, ability to regulate emotion during movies where puppies get killed, or if she stands when she urinates.  The reality is, she most likely still runs and throws like a girl. 

My stance has nothing to do with what might be perceived as hostile feelings toward gays, lesbians, or bisexuals.  My concern is that once again the gay agenda is being compromised by its own inclusion of people who have an inability (or unwillingness) to set certain limits.  Men who wear dresses, heels, wigs and lipstick in public and women who try to have surgically implanted genitalia are just plain strange.  Society isn’t insensitive for thinking that.  And for gays and lesbians to let this group up on their platform, they are taking away from the legitimacy of their rights to be who they are. 

We all have impulses, fetishes, fantasies, and secret drives that we don’t tell others about.  Just the same as we all masturbate, pick our noses, fart, and surf bizarre websites when nobody else is around.   But when we feel the need to come out of the closet, just how far should we take it? 

In our politically correct, overly liberal, California minded world, limit setting has been put on the wayside.  The reality is that gender identity issues are tied to a myriad of other psychological problems.  Studies show that those who have completed gender transition are comfortable with their target gender, but often still compromised by the other mental health problems in their lives.  To me, that is like a crack head being okay with their drug use, yet unwilling to acknowledge the reality and devastation it causes in their personal and professional life.    

Call it what you want, transgender, Tran sexuality, gender reassignment, transvestism, bigender, cross-dressing, intersexuality, pangender, but in its simplest description, it is most like a fetish.  Even labeling it as a fetish is difficult because it often implies sexuality.  This population often claims it is more about the feeling of being a man or woman that dominates them, rather than their preference for certain sexual practices. 

If only we had a comparison that could express an extreme feeling that someone wanted to follow that was unacceptable in everyday society.

What about nudism?  Nudists will tell you that they have an inner drive to be nude all the time.  They feel one with nature, and it isn’t about sexuality.  Nudists will pack their things, load up their campers on a Friday after work, and truck it over to a local nudist camp where they can be free to do the normal activities of all humans, yet, in the nude.  On Sunday, they pack up their belongings, put on their clothes and drive back to mainstream America.  And on Monday, they go to work, fully clothed, yet still feeling like they want to be nude.  Just imagine if they showed up to work nude and called Human Resources for discrimination when their boss fired them. 

Chaz Bono is described as a writer, actor, and musician.   Or maybe like lots of children of celebrities, she has no real direction or career and is just bored with too much time on her hands.  If she spent some time doing anything productive, she could maybe spend less time developing her fetish.  If you run with something, there really is no end to it.  Yet for some reason, her inability to try fitting into society, will get naysayers like me labeled as homophobic and bigoted.  Acceptance is important for all of us.   That should include individuals being accepting of the expectations of society and not trying to turn everything into a freak show.  Instead, we have reversed the definition of acceptance to make the larger group fit into the smaller ideology.  Is America really that easy to push around?