ABC released candid shots of transgender individual Chaz Bono in the dance studio with dance partner Lacey Schwimmer. Bono’s addition to the upcoming season of ‘DWTS’ resulted in a storm of protest from ABC’s viewers.

In an interview with ABC News last week, Bono said America “really needs to see” a transgender individual on ‘Dancing With The Stars’. How narcissistic of Chaz to say that.

Despite all the vicious hate mail I’ve received on this issue, I refuse to refer to Bono as a man. I will not feed into her delusions in order to be politically correct. Being a man is not as easy as taking hormone shots to grow a beard or wearing a wife beater every day.

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