Hats off to Charlize Theron for not letting society norms dictate her personal life. The Monster actress has recently revealed that her seven-year-old child Jackson, is a transgender and is now being raised as a girl. Interestingly the actress played a bisexual spy in Atomic Blonde and she's proud about the upbringing she had as a child. In her recent conversation with Daily Mail, Theron said, "Yes, I thought she was a boy, too, until she looked at me when she was three years old and said, ‘I am not a boy!’” Charlize Theron to Star in Netflix's Action Movie'The Old Guard'.

Charlize adopted Jackson in 2012 and later her sister, August in July 2015. “So there you go! I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive,” the actor told the publication. “They were born who they are and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide. My job as a parent is to celebrate them and to love them and to make sure that they have everything they need in order to be what they want to be. And I will do everything in my power for my kids to have that right and to be protected within that," continued the proud mother. Are Charlize Theron and Brad Pitt dating?

Charlize always shared a great rapport with her mother, Gerda, who killed the actress' father when she was 15. It was an act of self-defence and Theron thinks having a close relationship to at least one parent is a real blessing. Fans and admirers are lauding her courage to come out in open about it and raise awareness about the community's representation.

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