A Mother’s Love

Research has shown that having family support reduces all the negative side effects of transitioning…

Annette Bening opens up about her transgender son Stephen: 'I'm very, very proud of him'
Yahoo News
By Suzy Byrne Editor, Yahoo Entertainment
November 26, 2019


Annette Bening is a proud mother.

The American Beauty actress, 61, made rare public comments about her transgender son Stephen Ira’s transition, praising him for doing something “very challenging” with “great style” and “great intelligence.”

Bening spoke about her son with husband Warren Beatty in a new interview with AARP, telling a story about the now 27-year-old writer giving her a novel called Little Fish by Casey Plett. The book tells the story of a 30-year-old who finds evidence that her late grandfather, a devout Mennonite farmer, might have been transgender himself.

Of Stephen, who was born Kathlyn and began his transition journey at 14, Bening said, “He's managed something that's very challenging with great style and great intelligence. He's an articulate, thoughtful person, and I'm very, very proud of him."

It is really beautiful when parents support their child.

How much better is this than the fighting over a child’s transition like down in Texas

In an article in Insider they point out that,

Previous studies have pointed to a connection between not allowing transgender kids to socially transition and elevated rates of depression and suicide.

The PubMed research study cited concluded that,

Socially transitioned transgender children who are supported in their gender identity have developmentally normative levels of depression and only minimal elevations in anxiety, suggesting that psychopathology is not inevitable within this group. Especially striking is the comparison with reports of children with GID; socially transitioned transgender children have notably lower rates of internalizing psychopathology than previously reported among children with GID living as their natal sex.

Meanwhile in the states of Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, and Kentucky there have been legislation introduced by Republican legislators banning doctors from treating trans children.