Chaz Bono saving up to buy a penis; plans trip to Belgrade for final gender-transition surgery
The procedure to give Chaz a penis may cost up to $45,000

By Amanda Mikelberg / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, January 7 2012, 2:19 AM


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Chaz Bono plans to fly to Serbia to undergo the final phase of his
gender transformation: specialized surgery to create a fully-functional
penis.



Chaz Bono, 42, is saving up for a penis.

The celebrated spawn of Sonny and Cher
is socking away for the final phase of his genderreassignment, in which
surgeons will create a fully-functional penis for the LGBT activist.

“I could get a phalloplasty, which builds the phallus from a donor site on your body,” Bono, who changed his name from Chastity to Chaz, told Rolling Stone in a recent interview.

The size isn’t what’s most important, he says.

“But I'm leaning more toward a metoidioplasty. It's a procedure that
uses what you already have [the clitoris], which has grown larger from
the testosterone,” he explained. “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.”

Bono, who recently proposed to -- and then broke up with -- Jennifer Elia,
36, started female-to-male gender reassignment in 2008, which included a
total mastectomy and heavy rounds of hormone treatment.

But a new beard and chest hair isn't enough for Bono to feel like a real man.

"I'd like to have the testicular implants and all of that, and I'd like
to be able to urinate through it," Bono said, adding that he has
already located Dr. Right - in Belgrade - where the cost of the
procedure may run anywhere from $25,000 to $45,000.


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I would think his mother could afford to help him out with that, it would be a drop in the bucket for her.

Suzi wrote:

I would think his mother could afford to help him out with that, it would be a drop in the bucket for her.

So would I. Hell, I would think that he has trust fund that would more than cover the total expenses of this transition (unless Sonny anticipated something like this happening and decided to not leave him anything.)

I won't say anything.