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Now in the final stages of sex change surgery, Cher's daughter Chastity appeared at the weekend under her new male identity, Chaz. Confused? You bet we are / he / she is! In honour of the event here are ten of pop's biggest gender benders...
10 Boy George
The Culture Club singer had audiences totally confused after the band's first Top of the Pops appearance in the early 80s. Man? Woman? Both?? As it turned out, George is most definitely a man, just a very openly gay one.
9 Marilyn
Following in boy George's slipstream, 80s star Marilyn – real name Peter Robinson – took it a stage further and instead of going for androgyny, he just looked plain female with his long blonde locks and pouty lips.
8 KD Lang
The hugely talented Canadian singer is openly lesbian and is somewhat masculine in her appearance - if her standrad rig of suits with short back and sides hair are anything to go by.
7 David Bowie
Took gender-bending to new extremes in 1972 with his flamboyant alter-ego “Ziggy Stardust” - an androgynous alien that appealed to both women and men...and martians.
6 Rolling Stones
Proof that even the most red-bloodied hetrosexual English males love dressing up as women came when the this lot got the frocks out for the cover of their 1966 single “Have You Seen Your Mother”
5 U2
Despite being labelled “serious” and “ernest” even Bono and the boys couldn't resist a bit of drag action as witnessed by the video for 1992 single “One.”
4 RuPaul
Born Andre Charles, he/she has made a singing, acting, modelling tv presenting career from being a man who thinks he's a woman. “You can call me he. You can call me she. You can call me Regis and Kathie Lee,” he once said. “I don't care! Just as long as you call me!"
3 Lou Reed 
There was both a man and a woman on the sleeve of his classic 1972 album, Transformer. Lou Reed was both of them. Nuff said.
2 Amanda Lear
The transsexual performer - whose former lover Salvador Dali is reported to have paid for her surgery - was once a model whose image appeared on the cover of the 1973 Roxy music album “For your Pleasure”. She later became a disco star and dated David Bowie. Once asked “were you born a man?” she replied “No I was born a baby.”
1 Prince
Amazing that such an effeminate midget can be the subject of so many female fantasies. But fair play to the Purple One. He's got them eating out of the palm of his tiny little hands.
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