Naw, this particular kid can get an acting agent (and subsequently, a bit part on Casualty) due to nepotism alone.
Mum, paternal grandad, older half brother and dad are all successful/famous actors.
The ‘nonbinary 9 year old’ bit is merely a little cherry on top of the pre-existing PR cake.
I can’t remember who it was who asked this originally but have you ever come across a self described ‘nonbinary person’ who votes for a rightwing political party or is an active participant in a traditional, conservative religion?
(And no, a ‘nonbinary AMAB’ posing in a hijab for Instagram pics doesn’t count).
Have you ever met a parent with a primary school aged ‘nonbinary child’ who isn’t a leftie, luvvy, liberal, middle class type of person?
Ever since transsexuality became a clinical diagnosis, people diagnosed with transsexualism have existed across all political leanings and religions.
Perhaps transsexuality is a physiological condition caused by trauma (extreme disassociation from the traumatised self leading to a reinvention as an entirely new person)…
perhaps it’s a partly subconscious social-sexual strategy (a survival strategy for innately gender nonconforming homosexuals living in homophobic environments)…
perhaps it’s a paraphillia…
but it’s most likely all three (and imo those three different versions of cross sex identity should be separated out, not just lumped in together)
Whatever the medical diagnosis of transsexuality historically was, it clearly wasn’t a political identity and in some (rare) cases, it still isn’t.
But ‘nonbinary people’ are ALWAYS on the political left.
In fact, outside of certain factions of the political left, no one really believes that nonbinary people actually exist, at least, not as a meaningful, observable material category.
(We know that everyone is male or female, it’s just very occasionally a baby is born with atypical characteristics and requires a few extra tests to accurately determine which sex category they belong to)
So to be a ‘nonbinary person’ is to be a person with a self declared political identity…
… and If a 9 year old child has declared a political identity it must have been imprinted on them by the adults around them, parents, teachers, social media influencers, watching Drag Race etc.
Junior school aged children just aren’t developmentally sophisticated enough to have arrived at a political identity by themselves, they are little sponges, extremely prone to social influence but not yet capable of impulse control or critical thought. That’s why one minute they are all mad for Pokémon cards and the next they are all mad for Magic the Gathering cards.
And this is why we don’t let children vote.