Charlize Theron says her story as a mother of a transgender daughter is important.
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Pride Source journalist, Chris Azzopardi ask the Bombshell actress and mother-of-two, ‘If having a daughter who happens to be transgender influences your decisions when it comes to taking on the LGBTQ characters you do or, for that matter, don’t.’
‘Well, this is all pretty new for us, so it hasn’t really kind of come into question. I don’t really necessarily know if it will,’ the 44-year-old explained.
Charlize adopted both her daughters, Jackson, seven, and August, four.
‘My daughter’s story is really her story, and one day, if [Jackson] chooses, she’ll tell her story. I feel like as her mother, for me, it was important to let the world know that I would appreciate it if they would use the right pronouns for her.’
Charlize explained how Jackson called her out for referring to her as a boy in a past interview, exclaiming, ‘I’m not a boy!’
‘I think it became harder for us the older she got that people were still writing about her in the wrong pronouns, and also I was still talking about her in the press using the wrong pronoun. It really hurt her feelings. I don’t want to be that mom, and that was really why I said what I said a while back.
‘I haven’t really talked about it ever since, again, because outside of just asking that respectfully of the press – and the world, hopefully – the rest is really private and it’s her story, and it’s really up to her to decide if she wants to share that.’
