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Girl likes a guy. and i would kind of, you know, pursue that and then go on a date or something and be like, this is absurd. i feel ridiculous. i dont want to be, you know, intimate with this person at all. but i really like him in a special way. it was like i was having bromances before i realized i was a guy. >> you had sex once with a man. >> once, yes. >> what was the experience like? >> just kind of bland really. it wasnt a horrific traumatic experience. it was like okay. >> why did you do ...

Get married as two women because i didnt feel like i was a woman. >> it seems to me you have a lot of excuses to avoid taking jennifer down the aisle and she made it absolutely crystal clear shed like you to. >> i know. >> i agree. >> hes now behaving like a typical man. >> he is. >> which is comforting. >> no, no. its something we are going to be doing. >> is there a window we are talking about? >> there is no ultimatum. im here. were here. we have been through a lot. >> i would say within a ye...

>> none of that. >> thats a remarkable sign of our times. >> it is. >> does it make you feel good? >> it makes me feel really great. i went to the yankee store to buy a cap and the guy recognized me and couldnt have been cooler. hey, chaz. >> that must make you feel great. >> it does, it does. >> hey, chaz. thats cool. lets take a break and come to somebody else who is pretty cool, which is your girlfriend who stood by you, who is as brave as you. >> she is. naomi pryce: i am. im in the name you...

>> you know, this is family. and family is so important. and chaz has been such a hugely important part of my life but the same token, kind of rib chaz because im not really popular in chazs community either. we kind of have some fun going back and forth on that. sometimes we agree to disagree on things. but at the end of the day chaz campaigned for me when i ran as a republican running for congress. so we put our love for one another ahead of politics. >> yeah. actually, its been an amazing exp...

To san francisco. thats where he did it. i had no idea how i would react. but to my surprise i was thrilled. like i got it. when i saw his chest the way it looks now i thought, oh, right, this makes sense. i was surprised. i actually thought i might miss the other, but it worked. >> physically there wasnt a problem. what about psychologically? >> emotionally, we went through a lot of work. you go from being in a female dynamic, even though i believe chaz was always male. he had estrogen. so you ...

>> chaz, i think youre an amazingly courageous man. >> thank you. >> i think youre an amazingly courageous woman. >> thank you. >> and i think youve been an amazing stepmother. and the whole story i find uplifting. the fact that youre now happy and youre happy makes me happy and makes everybody happy. and if youre not happy youre a cynic and you dont deserve happiness. thank you for joining me and good luck with it all. i want to be at the wedding with my cameras recording every moment, live on ...

>> but you got back on to the alcohol. why was that? >> i cant blame it solely on chazs transition. my sobriety has been a struggle for years. it has been an off and on thing. when he told me he was going to do this i used it as a pass for myself which only an alcoholic can do. >> when you saw jennifer fall off the wagon, did it worry you that the stress of everything you put her through was now coming out in alcohol? >> actually, no. what it made me was angry really. and it was different becaus...

And chaz works with children as young as 3 and 4 that just feel that theyre in the wrong body, and she does counseling, you know -- he does counseling. so its a very difficult thing. >> even your mothers not quite sure if youre a he or a she, chaz. thats an uncomfortable moment. >> for her, look, its ingrained. its 40 years of saying "she." so it takes a little time to get out of that habit. >> be brutally honest. >> okay. >> your mom, from all ive read, wasnt happy about the fact that you were ...

So now youre up to date. im don lemon at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. thank you so much for watching. ill tell you back here tomorrow night at 6:00, 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern. make sure you have have a good saturday night. see you later. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com transformation like no other. chastity bono, a little girl who grew up on tv, now a man called chaz. >> i dont have memories till later in life. till at least like 4 or 5, 6. i dont remember anything from my ea...

That was it. >> that must make you feel good. >> it does. >> hey, chaz. thats cool. >> exactly. >> well take a break. when we come back well come to somebody else whos cool which is your girlfriend who stood by you throughout all this. >> mm-hmm. >> who is as brave as you. >> she is. ♪ [ male announcer ] in 2011, at&t is at work, building up our wireless network all across america. were adding new cell sites... increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wire...