CELEBRITY UPDATE: Chastity Bono is now Chaz Bono! Cher’s child is undergoing FTM gender transition and has announced this publicly.
Predictably, the Daily Mail have written an abusive and most likely defamatory article on him.
Referring to his client as a ‘he[‘], Chastity’s publicist Howard Bragman said …
The AP’s article (via stuff) is only a little less bad - his preferred name isn’t mentioned once in the article and the journalist insists that he’s “Cher’s daughter”, emphasis mine. Thankfully, ill-gendered pronouns are avoided in the article - but the journalist seemed to think it was important that Bragman is firmly in the male camp, referring to him (pointedly? or is that just me?) as Chaz’s “spokesman”.
Why do shitty newspapers insist on deciding for themselves what pronouns - let alone what genders - befit the subjects of their dreary articles? Most depressingly of all, Bragman
ask[s] that the media respect Chaz’s privacy during this long process as he will not be doing any interviews at this time
No dice, Bragman - and no kudos, Daily Mail. Like I say, however, predictable - this is the rag that has a section called “Femail”, articles solely concerning celebrity sex scandals and weight loss advice.
