Chastity Bono’s Sex Change=Shrug

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Chastity Bono is having a sex-change. America’s reaction? Whatevs.

When Bono was outed by a tab nearly 20 years ago, she called the experience “terrifying”— and mom Cher famously “flipped out.”

Yet the reactions to Chastity’s evolution into Chaz have veered from supportive (Cher, Hollywood Gossip, Mexican singer Thalia) to ho-hum (even Fox News couldn’t muster a negative response).

This on the heels of American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert announcing his (admittedly not-at-all-surprising) homosexuality to a collective yawn.

America obviously has a long way to go when it comes to LGBT acceptance (I’m talking to you, Prop 8). But it seems Chastity/Chaz isn’t the only one undergoing change.

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