I guess if my child had told me that at age 3 I would have either played along or laughed and joked with them about it. I certainly would have thought it was just a phase.

Her child will be supported and hope she can protect them from her spotlight.

Its great that she’s such a supportive mum. But 7 is too young to know anything for sure. 3 is certainly too young. Especially as it happened right around the time a sister popped up on the scene. I hope she’s as understanding if it all turns out that she has a normal boring son. Wait til at least puberty hits and they have more understanding around the whole thing.

She’s a lovely caring mum and that’s great to see

Refreshing to see. Hopefully she’s able to explain to him how some people might not be as accepting and that it’s not his fault, it’s their lack of understanding.

Being supportive of her child is a wonderful thing, but it worries me how the child will grow in the public eye when teenage hormones haven’t even started yet.

She’s right. Our role as parents is to keep our children safe, to protect them, and to raise decent human beings.

Totally against this. The child is 7, not 17 and educated enough in life to say things like this.
We are filling our young children’s heads with too much cr&p and gentle gentle approach.

How wonderful that she is such a supportive parent.

Not sure that he would know at that young age but it doesn’t matter. Charlize is letting him know that no matter what he decides he will always be her child and she will always be there for him.

At THREE years old she told you she was not a boy? A toddler??? It’s one thing when they are old enough to be who they want to be but this is ridiculous.

This is beautiful

I think the real message here is one of a parent who is saying that they will support and love their child regardless of how they identify themselves. That’s incredibly beautiful.

This is once again a case of the world going mad. How can someone that age be transgender, someone that age shouldn’t even know what the word means.

This is disgusting! My daughter is almost this age and has on separate occasions told me she is a dog and can actually fly. What makes it worse is that she was allowed to adopt. No child at 3 can comprehend who they are sexually – this fruit loop has ruined a child’s life!

I would take this too serious yet. This child is still very young. Every child goes through a whole series of stages forming their personality and their sex type personality and each child does that on it’s own pace, dependent of it’s personal, cultural, social and family circumstances

Well done to her and her way of handling the situation

Awesome. It’s good when celebrities say Hey this IS my child and their identity. Because then the public can feel confident in it. And coming forward. Not feeling alone. It’s not a choice or attention. It’s being their authentic self. Still an issue people find hard to accept.

I feel it is a pity that she has put this out there on social media. The child is only 7 and may change at a later stage or may not – but once the social media pressure is applied it can only get worse. Such a pity that social media is the be all and end all of things these days and privacy has gone out the window.

What a great mother, the type of mother that loves you as you are, everyone deserves a mother like this.