Praise for transgender parenting WeekendArgus
For a transgender child, it is more than a boy walking in his mother or sister’s high heels or a girl wanting to wear pants. Recently, the experience of transgender people, in particular, transgender children, caught the public’s attention when South African-born actress Charlize Theron decided to raise her 7-year-old son Jackson as a daughter. It was reported in the Weekend Argus last week that Jackson had approached his mom and said she was not a boy.
“Dear Charlize. My daughter sometimes wears pants. She is 20 months old. Is it perhaps the right time to ask her if she feels a balance of Y chromosome?” Hofmeyr tweeted. “He is fuelling discrimination. The transgender community is a minority group that has faced prejudice and hate crimes. There are higher incidences of depression and suicide in the transgender community,” Addinall-Van Straaten added.
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