Why do so many Hollywood celebs have trans or non-binary kids? Is it neutral compassion or enthusiastic encouragement?

Celebrity children identify as trans and non-binary at unbelievable rates.Charlize Theron, Cynthia Nixon, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony — whose 18-year-old recently debuted a new name, changing from Emme to Oskar — are just a few of the stars with children who aren’t living as their birth sex.There’s nothing wrong with being trans.

But such an unlikely concentration in a particular community should be cause for pause — especially when so many of these kids began playing with gender at shockingly young ages.In a geography where having a trans child has a tinge of chicness to it, one has to wonder: Is this partially due to social contagion? And, if so, don’t parents have a duty to their children to approach the issue of gender with compassionate skepticism?Charlize Theron, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dwyane Wade, Mel B, Annette Bening and Warren Beatty — I could go on.The list seems endless and, at a certain point, just starts feeling statistically improbable.Megan Fox may be the most alarming case.

She has not one, not two, but three sons — ages 9 to 13 — who have been photographed out and about with her about with her sporting long pink hair, dresses and shirts with messages about “Strong girls.”When her eldest started wearing dresses at the ripe age of 2, “I bought a bunch of books that… addressed a full spectrum,” Fox said in a 2022 interview with Glamour UK.“Some of the books are written by transgender children, some of the books are just about how you can be a boy and wear a dress.”There’s nothing wrong with a child wearing what they please.

But when one child becomes three, it’s worth asking if social contagion may well be at play — and whether the parental influence is one of neutral compassion or enthusiastic encouragement.Certainly, a 2-year-old’s clothing preferences are benign on their own.The situation becomes gravely serious when, sometimes, that’s the first step in a ...