Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron recently announced that her eldest daughter, Jackson (age 7) is transgender. She adopted Jackson in March 2012.
Speaking of her daughter, Theron told the British rag The Daily Mail, “Yes, I thought she was a boy, too, until she looked at me when she was three years old and said, ‘I am not a boy!’ So there you go! I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive.”
She continued:
“They were born who they are and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide. My job as a parent is to celebrate them and to love them and to make sure that they have everything they need in order to be what they want to be, and I will do everything in my power for my kids to have that right and to be protected within that.”
Right-wing conservatives and transphobic gay and lesbian commenters have long railed against the idea that young children can self-identify as trans, often saying that children claim to be another gender as a sort of pretend play, but that parents shouldn’t take it seriously.
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However, psychological experts say that children are capable of identifying their own gender and trans identity among children tends to be “consistent, insistent, and persistent.” That means that their self-identification must continue and be repeated proclaimed over a long span of time to qualify as possibly transgender. The HRC says, “If your 4-year-old son wants to wear a dress or says he wants to be a girl once or twice, he probably is not transgender.”
The organization adds that unconditional love, using the child’s preferred pronouns, learning about trans issues and helping defend them from transphobia (when appropriate) can help support a trans child, keeping them from self-destructive health risks, mental illness, homelessness and suicide — all of which disproportionately affect trans youth rejected by their families.
Wicked Dickie
This is so wrong. Yet again, we have white people adopting black children to use an accessories. Let’s not forget the Hart lesbian couple that abused and then killed their 6 adopted black children. Jackson should not be Brough up as Trans if he was not born with female genitals. I hope someone in her jurisdiction calls CPS on her. I am not anti-trans, but she should not be doing this.
brooklynbobby
WoW! You aren’t anti-trans? Where did ever get that ridiculous idea? You are about as anti-trans, anti-adoption and as big as asshole as they come. Accessories? Nice of you to demean a mother and her children as nothing but props. Why do people like you exist or are you in fact nothing but a mindless, trolling bot?!?!
Rock-N-RollHS
I always get confused: trans daughter means . . . boy turned girl, girl turned boy. boy turned girl turned boy turned boy-girl/girl-boy.
It’s like that scene in Chinatown: my daughter, my sister, my daughter, no my sister.
Or as Cher said in Moonstruck: “Snap out of it!”
truthseeker
“she looked at me when she was three years old and said, ‘I am not a boy!’ So there you go! ”
When I was 3, I said I was a little teapot. My parents didn’t put me in the China cupboard and pretend I was literally a teapot
brooklynbobby
They should have.
Hdtex
They definitely should have put you in the china cabinet. And left you there. Maybe you wouldn’t be so miserable now.
truthseeker
@brooklynbobby / Hdtex
So that’s your rebuttal to say that any of this is logical, to just basically say someone is wrong because you think they’re mean?
A 3 year old doesn’t even understand fully what male and female are. Thus, a 3 year old should not be making life altering decisions that involve sexuality and gender.
Based on the logic of you guys, if a 3 year old can make an informed decision on their biological sex, can they also consent to having sex? What if a 3 year old says they don’t want vaccinated? Should a parent not vaccinate because the 3 year old said so. What if the 3 year old wants to eat candy for dinner? Do we just give it to them?
Welcome to a clown world
white-queer-african
I can’t believe what i am reading. Then again. A repeat of history to stay relevant. Here is a woman that claimed on live television, when winning an Oscar, that she was a girl from a farm in Africa! She was from what is called a “plot” in South Africa. And then also from the wrong side of the track! In the US of A it is similar to a trailer park. Trash that is. Be that as it may. Rumors had it back then in SA that she killed her father and the mother took the fall. Not much of a fall. The victim mentality from apartheid SA certainly helped her career in Hollywood. A manipulating mother that once again appear to do whatever to keep her daughter relevant. Disgusting to say the least.
brooklynbobby
Yes you are disgusting. Making up bullshit out of a warped mind. I’m convinced all the ugly nasty comments on this are from the same person. Same tone, same vocabulary. The vocabulary of hate! Ugh
Hdtex
Having spent many years in South Africa I know the country, and I know her story. Benoni is a white middle class suburb of Johannesburg and is NOT a trailer park. Nor did she kill her father, but her mother did in self-defense and was not charged. Charlize is a talented, dedicated ally who has worked for everything she’s got. Go tell your little racist fairytales somewhere else.
white-queer-african
Wow, touchy touchy now. Please read my comment in it’s context.
@Hdtex, based on your statement, you clearly did not spend enough time in South Africa.
Fact: Benoni was a working class white suburb.
Fact: low class whites lived on the outlying “plots”, hence the name maplotters. You might have to Google that!
Fact: serious questions were asked at the time re. who actually did the shooting?
Fact: i have no hate in my heart.
Fact: i am only white-queer-african on Queerty
Fact: i am no racist. Yes i am white and Yes my husband is black (not that should be relevant to the discussion subject)
@brooklynbobby
…….NO COMMENT.