Charlize Theron's nine-year-old son wears dresses and pink bikinis

A hundred years ago, the world was turned on gender equality, when women tried to prove their right to be on an equal footing with men. Now gender identity is in trend: more and more people believe that a person's gender is determined not by genitals, but by inner self-awareness. Simply put, today you can be a man if you feel like a man, and not if you have a member. Likewise, having a penis does not mean that you cannot be a woman. Transgenderness often manifests itself in childhood, and for many parents it comes as a shock. However, there are also those who accept the peculiarity of their child. For example, the actress Charlize Theron adopted the boy Jackson 10 years ago, and now she buys him dresses, braids his braids and calls her daughter Jackson.

At the age of three, the eldest son Charlize Theron, whom she adopted from South Africa, announced that he no longer wants to be a boy. The kid asked to treat him like a girl, and since then he prefers women's clothes and hairstyles for long hair. Charlize herself at first did not take the child's statement seriously, but allowed him to be who she wanted. A few years later, the actress realized that these were not children's quirks, but the boy's real self-identification.

In the past few years, Charlize's son has appeared in public with his mother exclusively in dresses, with pigtails on his head, and sometimes with painted nails. Because of this, the actress had to endure many attacks from the press and even from her fans. Many believe that she maims the child and forcibly instills in him a model of female behavior. Say, the boy could not at such a young age determine his gender. Nevertheless, in the spring of last year, the Hollywood star dotted all the "i's" in this issue: in In her interview with the Daily Mail, she openly asked everyone to refer to Jackson as a girl.

Charlize says that physiology does not play a decisive role in this matter. Despite the fact that Jackson is still biologically male, his behavior and hobbies are much more “female” than that of the second daughter of the actress, Augusta (Charlize adopted her six years ago). “I have no right to decide for children who they want to be,” Theron replied more than once to haters' attacks. “It is my duty to love them and provide everything they need in order for them to grow up and find themselves.”

By the way, Charlize Theron is not the only mom in Hollywood who openly supports her child's transgender status. The daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt from the age of two considered herself a boy and asked to call her John, and even in her teens took male hormonesto stop breast growth and menstruation. The girl spent 13 years in search of herself, and all these years Angie defended her right to be a man before the press. Only recently Shiloh quit taking hormonal pills and decided to return to the ranks of women again.

But Cher's daughter finally and irrevocably changed sex. Until the age of 13, the blonde baby Chastity was no different from her girlfriends, but then, according to the girl, she became "uncomfortable in her own body." At the age of 18, Chastity came out and openly admitted her transgenderness, and a few years later she underwent a course of operations to transform from a woman to a man. Now she feels much happier than before - even though she is very much better. Due to the constant intake of testosterone in the body of Chez (this is now the name of Chastity), a hormonal failure occurred, and now the fight against excess weight has become his constant companion.

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