Becoming Chaz Analysis

Becoming Chaz was a documentary about Chaz Bono’s transition from female to male. The documentary includes his family, friends, and girlfriend. Becoming Chaz addresses how complicated it is to be transgender. There are people who will certainly support the transition and there are still a lot of people in the world who will not support people who are transgender. Taking a look into Chaz Bono’s transition and life showed how difficult it can be for someone to transition. Some of his family was extremely supportive of his transition while other people were not. Chaz Bono’s mother Cher was really struggling with his transition from female to male. You can see her in the documentary really struggling with Chaz’s pronouns, and not really knowing if she can fully accept this change.
The diversity issue that the film raises is gender. The documentary addressed these issuses in …show more content…
It does not matter what gender you identify as, your sex, age, race, or sexual orientation. A human being is a human being and it is not right to discriminate against anyone. My views did not change after viewing the film. I still believe that everyone is their own person and we do not need to fall into society’s norms or be what other people what us to be. I believe that more people should watch this documentary and that we need to educate our society more that it is okay to be different. We do not need to put a label on everything or when someone steps outside of the box of what someone else believes is normal they should not have to live in fear because they are viewed as different to someone else. I think that the film showed some good aspects of society and how people can be accepting of change. But, I also found it disgusting when people were so negative about the subject or found it to be a good time to make fun of someone else because of something they believed or wanted to do with their own