Charlize Theron: my child who I thought was a boy...

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Charlize Theron: My child I thought was a boy is... a girl!
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...apparently because 'Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said: 'I am not a boy'

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It's bizarre to me that anyone could be so affirming to gender stereotyping as to deny the child of their actual sex, assuming what's reported is correct.

Yes - attachment disorder, different race adoption, another child suddenly entering the family (a girl) and her terrifying childhood, her reactions to a male child and a significant relationship starting and ending at around that time, so much to be dealing with and overcome. Even so there is a chance that it could easily have just blown over.

Reifying - not the same as being empathic and caring.

It was first mentioned a year or so ago I think and I do think it would have been best kept private and low key, but I guess that the paparazzi would never allow that. Being so famous, if she didn't say something, someone else would have.

I’m wondering about this poor kid. Adopted (one of 3 black children) by a white mum (no idea about the dad) so dropped into a unfamiliar family environment from a disadvantaged start in life.

The child needs care and guidance. They have already had a confused start in life.

There's actually very little about her child in the article so it's difficult to know if she's just going along with it or there's s deeper conviction from her.

Reading the full article and her comments on her "audition" as a 19 year old with the director in his pyjamas and accepting a role from him years later made my feel sick. She didn't tell the sleazebag where to stick his role.

My 4 year old becomes a dinosaur upon request or when the mood takes him. Cos its fun and it gets a reaction from people especially people close to him.

How can a child consent to anything when they are conditioned from age 3 for approval from parents? They won't break away from that until their early twenties at the earliest.

I wonder if the child is trying to blend in with the females and hide from his past? I don’t know anything about the child’s adoption but it would stand to reason that the child hasn’t had too many firm attachments in his (for the child is a male bodied human after all) short life.

Anjelena Jopie was 'on trend' with this. I used to think it was cool, that her daughter defied feminine tropes. But then I started questioning how much it was Anjelena, rather than her daughter, who was behind that. Still not sure, I hope that kid can be who she is. And all kids. It's fu ked up.

I would think that this is much more about CT’s issues with men than-her son wanting to wear Disney princess dresses like his sister
I think this child is black too, so she’s got a black trans kid - double woke points!

Didn’t Madonna start all this - adopting several children from a range different backgrounds. After saying that, Mia Farrow...

No matter how desperate I was - I would never want my child adopted into someone in the entertainment industry.

Oh her father was abusove and shot by her mother. Not great male role models on her life then.

I find this deeply disturbing. My three year old has said he wants to be a girl after spending time with his female cousins, of course it was a very short phase. I cannot even begin to imagine the damage I could have caused to him if I had of used that to start identifying him as male, and announced this to the press (not that the press would have cared about me but you get what I mean). Even if a person believes and agrees with the trans narrative what makes them think a three year old is old enough to make this decision? I can't get my head around it.

My son has recently told me he wants to be a tiger, I guess I better make my family aware that we will be visiting him at the zoo in the future

I mean identifying him as female

Why do you never hear of a boy saying he is a girl but still wanting to wear dungarees and climb trees? Have short hair and collect bugs? Why is it always long hair, butterfly hair clips and fairy princess dresses

Celebrity adoptions piss me off so much. A friend adopted two siblings aged about 18 months and three. They had had a very difficult start in life, obviously, abuse and fostered before the adoption.
She and her husband devoted their life to getting the children settled, in a secure routine, she gave up work, they didn't even let a family member babysit for a year, they didn't leave them once in that time, but as they gradually settled with the family then the occasional babysitting by a family member was introduced. The younger one really struggled with school when she started so she has home schooled (they are both teachers and my friend is a music teacher so works from home).

Then you see the likes of Madonna swooping in, picking a baby swanning home with it before dumping it on the nanny. And they always seem to do it by the half dozen, meaning no chance of individual attention.

And of course celebs are known for their down to earth attitudes and sceptical take on trendy bandwagons eh?

When eldest old son was at pre school he believed he was Buzz Lightyear. He told all the staff that is who he was and convinced them to change his name to Buzz in the register. They did and called out Buzz instead of his name each morning.

This of course was short lived for a few months in pre school and he is now 19 and has no desire to be a space ranger

😂😂😂😂😂
I like the sound of that pre school. Very progressive!

DS also really really wanted to be a motorcycle policeman. He doesn’t now.

My sister was adamant that she was going to be a policewoman. She isn’t now.

I always wanted to be a witch... cackle

YEh when I read this I thought ofgs, trying to use your children as a way of raising ISSUES

My son has painted his nails, dressed up as little red riding hood, pushed a buggy around, with a doll in it! CT is being ridiculous.

I thought parents were supposed to ‘know best’. Do the SS step in to have a look when this happens?

I am obviously v old because I just can't get my head around all this sort of crap. What I don't understand is what happens when he hits puberty ? The lunatics have well and truly taken over the asylum !

Many trends, fads, crazes start out in the U.S and then make their way, or are exported, abroad. This includes metal health trends. Interesting book " Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche". Not only the power of the big pharmaceuticals trending the latest drugs and treatments, but also a whole aid industry assembled to support the latest diagnosis.

Does get me thinking about the nature of the U.S, and in particular thinking about its religiosity and how mainstream that is. Even if you are not religious yourself, you are existing in a culture which is. Given that many are now reporting what they see as the TRA movement being a type of gay conversion therapy, and the U.S being the home of this movement and of queer theory ( even though it is Canada which seems to have taken it furthest), do people think there is any link?

We know that countries with strong prohibitions against homosexuality have higher number of trans people, trans women in particular. See Iran as an example.

DS2 (now 11) said more than once aged around 5/6 that he wanted to be a girl. He has a twin sister and is a gentle soul. He then announced age 10 he was ‘gender neutral’ (had gleaned from YouTube ) but now is thoroughly happy to be a boy.

There was a blind item that may have been about this recently:

The club consists of four actresses that I know of. There could be a couple more that I haven't heard about, but it is a pretty tough club to get into and the dues are high. Not high in the sense that it costs a lot financially, but it does take a high toll on relationships and your ability to connect with an audience. When this foreign born A- list mostly movie actress who is an Academy Award winner/nominee wanted to join, it cost her a long term relationship with her actor significant other. They had other issues too, but he just couldn't move past it.

This former A+ list mostly movie actress who is an Academy Award winner/nominee is in the club and it has not taken a toll on her relationships in private, but she went from visible all of the time and front and center to someone who barely even works any longer. She doesn't want the spotlight from the press which is required after doing movies because someone will start asking questions. One of the rules of the club is you must do pap photos with your chosen offspring at least once per month, but she doesn't do it. Our first actress does, but her ex refuses to go along with it and the requirements for the photo.

Continues at:

www.crazydaysandnights.net/2019/04/todays-blind-items-club.html

A friends child was so convinced she was a horse that when she went to buy new shoes she turned her back on the shoe shop assistant and lifted up her back feet one at a time to have the new shoes fitted......

My younger cousin from the age of 3 to about 5 used to call herself a boy even had a name. This was about 15 years ago, if she was encouraged to believe she actually wanted to be a boy I think that could of caused more damage because she doesn't actually want to be male and is extremely feminine now.

Child crave attention and that can come in different forms.

My own ds's dressed up, played with dolls and I painted their nails for play but it never crossed my mind that they wanted to be girls.