Chaz Bono recently spoke with E! News about his parents Cher and Sonny Bono, his fiancee Jennifer Elia, his wariness regarding today’s options for genital reassignment surgery, and Shiloh, the first biological child of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Specifically, his willingness to talk with Brad and Angelina about gender identity.

Although E! News leads us to believe Bono would never make any assumptions about Shiloh (I say “leads us to believe” because there are no direct quotes about that from Bono himself), Bono does say he’s willing to talk with Pitt and Jolie.

I would love to talk to them at some point to at least let them know we have this resource for them if they ever need it.

Bono is currently volunteering his time with a support group that helps children with gender identity issues and their family members, and I think that’s great. I really, really do.

But, I can’t figure out how I feel about the Shiloh issue.

On the one hand, Shiloh is a child. A young child. I mean, she just turned five years old! So she likes to dress like a boy. She’s five! I was wearing cowboy hats and Richard Petty t-shirts at that age! I don’t think it’s time to start thinking about gender identity issues just yet.

On the other hand, I respect that Bono wants to be there for kids who are (or might be) facing what he faced growing up as a girl. He wants to make sure others have the kind of help and support he and his family didn’t have, because he knows how tough it can be without it.

What do YOU think?

How Bono jumped the gun? Or is now the time to let Brad and Angelina know there are resources?

For more on Chaz Bono, you might want to check out Becoming Chaz, the documentary that follows the gender transition between Chastity (his former identity) and Chaz.

Image Credit: Greg Hernandez per these Creative Commons License Attributions

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    Last reviewed: 1 Jun 2011