Chaz Bono

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life. ”

What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life. ”

I always had this idea that, 'Sure, I wished I was a boy and felt more like a boy and all of that.' But I wasn't, so I would deal with it. And I for some reason thought there were other lesbians that felt that way and that was just part of that community. ”

I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on the 'T' now than I was on the 'L' or the 'G.' ”

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family. ”

I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy. ”

I was never religious. ”

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff. ”

I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me. ”