Chaz Bono to have surgery
Cher's newly-single son Chaz Bono is considering his options after choosing to go ahead with radical surgery.
Bono, who was born a girl, is in the final stages of a complete gender reassignment and the last part of his journey will come when surgeons give him a male phallus.
He reveals he could go all the way and have a donor organ, but he
tells Rolling Stone magazine he is "leaning more toward a
metoidioplasty".
Bono, who recently split from longtime girlfriend Jennifer Elia,
explains, "It's a procedure that uses what you already have which
has grown larger from the testosterone. You end up with a smaller
phallus than with the phalloplasty, but it's fully functional, it
gets erect, and the sensation is all there.
"To break it down, the surgery I want to have, I'd like to have the
testicular implants and all of that, and I'd like to be able to
urinate through it."
But Bono admits it is not a cheap procedure: "There's different
ways to do the surgery, from real basic to more and more options.
It's like a car. The doctor I want to use is in Belgrade. It's
going to be a little cheaper there. Probably $25,000, maybe
$45,000, I really don't know."