EXCLUSIVEAs Ben Affleck's daughter comes out as 'Fin', why are so many A-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） celebrities' children trans and 非，不，無-binary?
For Ben Affleck and ex-wife Jennifer 獲得する, it was a 祝賀 of both an ending and a beginning. During a 記念の service earlier this month for 獲得する’s father in Charleston, West Virginia, the pair also 公然と 是認するd their 15-year-old child's new 身元.
Their daughter, christened Seraphina Rose, now goes by Fin and uses the pronoun ‘they’. They were wearing a dark 控訴 and tie, and sported a distinctly unfeminine buzz 削減（する）.
After making an introduction (‘Hello, my 指名する is Fin Affleck’), Fin read a Bible passage in a service that, somewhat ironically, celebrated a grandfather who 獲得する has 以前 said was so ‘保守的な’ that she and her sisters weren’t even 許すd to get their ears pierced.
Fin is, of course, the offspring of two film 星／主役にするs who made their 指名する 具体的に表現するing 伝統的な gender stereotypes ? Affleck as the squared-jawed 主要な man in films such as Armageddon, Pearl Harbour and The Town, and 獲得する as a svelte 暗殺者 in Elektra and sexy 二塁打 スパイ／執行官 Sydney Bristow in the TV series 偽名，通称.
The Afflecks?? who 含む 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, 非，不，無-binary and gender-fluid offspring?? a fact that these A-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） mums and dads, 一時停止するing their usual 猛烈な／残忍な 保護 of their privacy, are often happy to talk about.
Indeed, the 延長するd Affleck 一族／派閥 already has Fin’s step-sibling Emme, 16, the 非，不，無-binary child of Jennifer Lopez?? who is?now Ben’s wife?? from her marriage to singer Marc Anthony.
Lopez first referred to Emme as ‘they’ two years ago when she 招待するd them on 行う／開催する／段階 to sing with her at a baseball charity 祝祭.
獲得する, Affleck and Lopez join a long 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of celebrity parents who’ve had to rethink their offspring’s pronouns: it 含むs Charlize Theron, Jamie 物陰／風下 Curtis, Cher, Sigourney Weaver, Annette Bening and 過密な住居 Beatty, and Sex And The City 星／主役にする Cynthia Nixon.
公式の／役人 見積（る）s of the 割合 of the U .S. 全住民 that considers itself transgender 変化させる. によれば the Williams 学校／設ける, a 性の orientation and gender 身元s 研究 organisation, 1.6 million Americans over the age of 13 identify as transgender. That 作品 out at around one in 170 people. Other 熟考する／考慮するs say the 人物／姿／数字 is lower. So why does Hollywood appear so over-代表するd?
Jennifer Lopez celebrates her twins Emme and Max turning 16 on a trip to Japan in February
Dr Hilary Cass’s long-を待つd 報告（する）／憶測 on gender 移行 in the UK last week 警告するd that many minors who question their gender 身元 are 現実に 苦しむing from 苦悩, bad self-esteem or troubles with 団体／死体 image. Given that 存在 the child of a Hollywood 星／主役にする can be 悪名高くも challenging?? many come off the rails, いつかs with 悲劇の consequences?? could this help explain why so many are experiencing ‘gender 苦しめる’?
Or maybe it is 簡単に because most of them live in the uber-自由主義の 飛び領土 of California ? not to について言及する a like-minded 産業?? where gender 非，不，無-順応／服従 is welcomed. And if a 星／主役にする does have a transgender child, they may 井戸／弁護士席 want to tell the world ab out it, given that Hollywood has taken 味方するs very 堅固に in the 猛烈な／残忍な culture war over trans topics. It is hardly surprising that its 主要な lights are の中で the trans movement’s most vociferous 支持する／優勝者s.
Some, like actress Kate Hudson (daughter of Goldie Hawn) have even raised their children ‘genderless’?? letting their children decide how they identify.
One thing is （疑いを）晴らす: 星／主役にするs who are open about having a trans child are ? 公然と at least?? rarely anything but wildly enthusiastic.
Hollywood A-listers are, of course, often away filming. Some 収容する／認める they never saw their child’s trans 問題／発行するs coming.
Jamie 物陰／風下 Curtis is の中で those taken unawares. She 明らかにする／漏らすd in 2021 that her 可決する・採択するd child, born Tom, is now a trans woman 指名するd Ruby. Curtis said she and her husband Christopher Guest had 最初 struggled to adapt?? accidentally using Ruby’s ‘dead 指名する’ and getting the pronouns wrong ? but 主張するd she was a ‘感謝する student’.
Actress Jamie 物陰／風下 Curtis with her daughters Ruby, left, and Annie at the 首相 of Halloween Ends in 2022
‘I’m not proselytising, and I’m not trying to 軍隊-料金d something to people,’ she told People magazine in 2021, although her 態度 appeared to have 常習的な by the time The 支持する, an LGBTQ+ magazine, 指名するd her its 支持する of the Year in 2023 for 支持する／優勝者ing their 原因（となる）. She was certainly proselytising by then.
‘I hope to teach them that this is what you do when you’re a parent,’ she intoned. ‘You 控訴 up and you show up with your heart open, your 武器 outstretched and your 目的（とする） true. And your 職業 is to tell the haters to 支援する the f*** off.’
外国人 星／主役にする Sigourney Weaver is a の近くに friend of Curtis but has been far more 控えめの about how her only child, born in 1990 to Weaver and husband Jim Simpson, is now known as Char. In 2022, Weaver?? 簡潔に muddling pronouns?? 明らかにする／漏らすd: ‘We have a wonderful daughter who’s now 32 ? I don’t know how, she still looks 12. … In fact, they’re 非，不，無-binary and they teach [数字表示式の storytelling at New York’s Columbia University].’
Some children have even been identified as trans by their celeb parents when they’re barely out of nappies. In 2019, actress Charlize Theron 明らかにする／漏らすd that her 年上の child Jackson, 11, who she 可決する・採択するd as a baby and who she introduced to the world as a boy, was now 存在 raised as a girl.
‘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!”
‘So there you go! I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to 保護する and I want to see 栄える.’
Theron tried to explain why she had made the 発覚, 説: ‘It became harder for us the older she got that people were still 令状ing about her in the wrong pronouns ? and also I was still talking about her in the 圧力（をかける） using the wrong pronoun. It really 傷つける her feelings.’
Annette Bening and 過密な住居 Beatty married in 1992 and have four children 含むing Stephen Ira, a transgender poet. Like Jamie 物陰／風下 Curtis, Bening has gone from admitting she was ‘very ignorant’ about what it meant to be a trans child to becoming an outspoken LGTBQ+ 支持する, 受託するing the 支持する Award from LGBTQ+ 権利s group GLSEN last year.
‘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.
Ben Affleck with his ex-wife Jennifer 獲得する. The pair have three children together:?Violet, Fin and Samuel
Fin Affleck at their grandfather's 記念の service in Charleston, West Virginia
Famously outspoken, singer Cher has been very honest about the challenges that may come with having a trans child. The 77-year-old 星／主役にする's transgender son, Chaz Bono, was born Chastity in 1969 and 移行d between 2008 and 2010?? long before it was a 原因（となる） celebre in Tinseltown.
Cher has 認める that when Chaz first began the 過程 of 移行ing, she was afraid to see him in 事例／患者 she didn’t recognise him. She even asked him if he could save his old answering machine 迎える／歓迎するing.
‘It’s a strange change for a mother to go through,’ she said in a 2013 interview.
Cynthia Nixon?? Miranda in Sex And The City?? is one of Hollywood’s 進歩／革新的な firebrands. After years spent dating men, she （機の）カム out as a lesbian in 2004. In 2018, she 明らかにする／漏らすd that her 21-year-old eldest child, who was born Samantha and is one of two children Nixon had with college sweetheart Danny Mozes, is transgender.
‘I’m so proud of my son Samuel Joseph Mozes (called Seph) who 卒業生（する）d college this month,’ she said on social マスコミ in 2018 to 示す the 14th 年次の Trans Day of 活動／戦闘.
At the time she was running as a 社会主義者 競争相手 to become 市長 of New York,? and critics （刑事）被告 her of trying to impress 自由主義の 投票者s.
悪名高い Hollywood attention-探検者s Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith have often 設立する themselves 影を投げかけるd by their children, son Jaden, 25, and daughter Willow, 23, who have both been 述べるd as ‘gender fluid’. Jaden was あられ／賞賛するd as a ’非，不，無-binary icon’ in 2016 after he was made the new 直面する of Louis Vuitton's womenswear （選挙などの）運動をする, having 定期的に worn women’s 着せる／賦与するs and high heels and 主張するd they weren’t ‘girl 着せる／賦与するs’ but just '着せる／賦与するs’.
Actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith's son Jaden Smith at the Louis Vuitton Spring 2023 show in Paris
Last year, Transformers 星／主役にする Megan Fox was （刑事）被告 by a 共和国の／共和党の 隣人 of 軍隊ing two of her three young sons?? then 老年の six, nine and ten ? to wear girls' 着せる／賦与するs. The music ビデオ director, who ran for U.S. 議会 in 2022, said he’d seen the children’s nanny consoling the unhappy boys.
Fox 否定するd that she 軍隊d them but 収容する／認めるs she has always encouraged them to be ‘gender fluid’ and that her eldest, Noah, had been teased by classmates for wearing dresses to school.
The actress （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that when she became 妊娠している with him, she could feel ‘through my mother’s intuition’ that ‘he was not subscribing to gender stereotypes, so I decided to 供給する an 環境 for him 早期に on that would 許す him to discover how he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 表明する himself’.
However, even Noah’s youthful gender experimentation was trumped by Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, the eldest 生物学の child of Brad and Angelina, who?? によれば her parents?? has been 調査するing her gender 身元 since she was two and asked to be called John. ‘She wants to be a boy,’ Jolie told Vanity Fair in 2010 when Shiloh was four. ‘So we had to 削減（する） her hair. She likes to wear boy [着せる／賦与するs]. She thinks she’s one of her brothers.’
Both parents 受託するd their daughter 手配中の，お尋ね者 to live ‘like a little dude’, although Pitt 受託するd some people might find it ‘obnoxious’. Jolie said she 率直に supported her daughter as she 設立する her choices ‘fascinating’.
In her 事例／患者, however, it 報道によれば 証明するd a passing 段階. Today, the parents of Shiloh, now 17, use 女性（の） pronouns to 言及する to her.
For other Hollywood 星／主役にするs, however, the struggle not to let the 味方する 負かす／撃墜する by using the wrong words must continue.?
