For Ben Affleck and ex-wife Jennifer Garner , it was a celebration of both an ending and a beginning. During a memorial service earlier this month for Garner’s father in Charleston, West Virginia , the pair also publicly endorsed their 15-year-old child's new identity.
The Afflecks – who include Fin’s siblings Violet and Samuel – certainly aren’t an exception in having a transgender family member in Hollywood. The upper echelons of Tinseltown are packed with the proud parents of trans, non-binary and gender-fluid offspring – a fact that these A-list mums and dads, suspending their usual fierce protection of their privacy, are often happy to talk about.
Official estimates of the proportion of the U.S. population that considers itself transgender vary. According to the Williams Institute, a sexual orientation and gender identities research organisation, 1.6 million Americans over the age of 13 identify as transgender. That works out at around one in 170 people. Other studies say the figure is lower.
Hollywood A-listers are, of course, often away filming. Some admit they never saw their child’s trans issues coming. ‘I hope to teach them that this is what you do when you’re a parent,’ she intoned. ‘You suit up and you show up with your heart open, your arms outstretched and your aim true. And your job is to tell the haters to back the f*** off.’
‘Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,’ Theron told the Mail. ‘Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said: “I am not a boy!” ‘What I would wish is for every person to have someone who is trans in their family because once somebody you love is trans, then you get it,’ she has said. At the time she was running as a socialist contender to become Mayor of New York, and critics accused her of trying to impress liberal voters.
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