{"id":1266,"date":"2026-06-05T07:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:37:40","slug":"why-do-so-many-hollywood-celebs-have-trans-or-non-binary-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Why do so many Hollywood celebs have trans or non-binary kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Celebrity children identify as trans and non-binary at unbelievable rates. Charlize Theron, Cynthia Nixon, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony \u2014 whose 18-year-old recently debuted a new name, changing from Emme to Oskar \u2014 are just a few of the stars with children who aren\u2019t living as their birth sex.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s nothing wrong with being trans. But such an unlikely concentration in a particular community should be cause for pause \u2014 especially when so many of these kids began playing with gender at shockingly young ages.<\/p>\n

In a geography where having a trans child has a tinge of chicness to it, one has to wonder: Is this partially due to social contagion? And, if so, don\u2019t parents have a duty to their children to approach the issue of gender with compassionate skepticism?<\/p>\n

Charlize Theron, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dwyane Wade, Mel B, Annette Bening and Warren Beatty \u2014 I could go on. The list seems endless and, at a certain point, just starts feeling statistically improbable.<\/p>\n

Megan Fox may be the most alarming case. She has not one, not two, but three sons \u2014 ages 9 to 13 \u2014 who have been photographed out and about with her about with her sporting long pink hair, dresses and shirts with messages about \u201cStrong girls.\u201d<\/p>\n

When her eldest started wearing dresses at the ripe age of 2, \u201cI bought a bunch of books that\u2026 addressed a full spectrum,\u201d Fox said in a 2022 interview with Glamour UK. \u201cSome of the books are written by transgender children, some of the books are just about how you can be a boy and wear a dress.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing wrong with a child wearing what they please. But when one child becomes three, it\u2019s worth asking if social contagion may well be at play \u2014\u00a0and whether the parental influence is one of neutral compassion or enthusiastic encouragement.<\/p>\n

Certainly, a 2-year-old\u2019s clothing preferences are benign on their own. The situation becomes gravely serious when, sometimes, that\u2019s the first step in a journey to hormone injections and irreversible surgery.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not something to be taken lightly.<\/p>\n

Dr. Erica Anderson, a clinical psychologist who specializes in helping children with gender identity issues and who is transgender herself, has said as much. She believes that celebrities \u2014 many of whom live in a comfortable bubble of privilege \u2014 are too likely to unquestioningly go along with trans identity in their kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think that billionaires\u2019 kids are necessarily more prone to being trans,\u201d she told The Post. \u201cMany in the entertainment industry are creatives, they\u2019re freethinkers, they\u2019re out of the box thinkers \u2026 and so, the idea that someone isn\u2019t conventional is kind of part and parcel of how they move through the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anderson said she\u2019s had celebrity clients who move in an environment where \u201cthe prevailing politics are extremely progressive \u2014 more than liberal, like progressive.\u201d For this reason, she says, \u201cthey don\u2019t feel safe to question an asserted identity by one of their children.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs someone who has [provided therapy for]three generations of cohorts of adolescents and has been a parent myself \u2014 [I say,] well, yeah, believe your kids. But, like, maybe don\u2019t bank on it,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cMaybe they\u2019ll change their mind \u2026 but particularly if you\u2019re talking about a kid going on hormones, you\u2019re not walking that back.\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019s especially concerned about certain famous figures who have publicly celebrated \u2014 not just privately accepted \u2014 their children\u2019s transitions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some celebrity parents who are very careful about not exposing their children to unnecessary public scrutiny,\u201d Anderson explained. \u201cBut there are some parents who forget that their life as a celebrity adult is not what is good for their child.\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019s right. Being foisted into the public spotlight by your overly eager progressive parent because you\u2019re wearing a dress before you can even articulate the difference between male and female is a tough fate that seems to seal itself.<\/p>\n

This is not an argument for parents to stigmatize or disbelieve their children; but it is an argument for parents being the adults in the room \u2014 and asking challenging questions not to stigmatize but to protect<\/em> their children.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe job of parents is to gradually allow kids to make more significant choices but to have in mind, no matter what their age, that it is part of your job as a parent to prevent kids from making really bad choices,\u201d Anderson added.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s not a transphobe or a bigot. She\u2019s a transgender person who knows through experience the gravity of the decision that celebrity parents are so publicly flirting with.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because questioning gender identity is a serious thing in today\u2019s day and age \u2014 one that can end in hormone injections and irreversible surgery.<\/p>\n

Anywhere that it seems like a \u201ctrend\u201d must be scrutinized for the sake of the well being of the children involved.<\/p>\n

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Celebrity kids are trans at vastly disproportionate rates. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, Charlize Theron, Cynthia Nixon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, Dwyane Wade, Mel B, Annette Bening and Warren Beatty, Robert DeNiro, Tori Spelling \u2014 all parents to trans kids. 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