Charlize Theron opens up about her daughter feeling ‘hurt’ she was being referred to with the wrong pronouns

Charlize Theron is opening up about what it’s like to navigate the spotlight as a mom to a transgender daughter. For one thing, 7½-year-old Jackson was not pleased to learn the wrong pronoun was being used for her. “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,” Charlize recently told Pride Source. “My daughter’s story is really her story, and one day, if she 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.” She went on to explain how, “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,” adding that it “really hurt her feelings.” Now, she says, she sticks to asking the press and the rest of the world to honor her daughter’s assertions about how she defines herself, with the understanding that “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.”