The clip from a new HBO documentary called “Transhood” is causing controversy on social media as it shows a group of adults making a 4-year-old biological boy to publicly announce that he prefers to identify as a girl.
In the one-minute video, the boy, who people call Phoenix, is seen in a rainbow skirt as he is taken onto the stage in an apparent religious ceremony that celebrates people who identify with a series of sexual descriptors.
Phoenix is obviously very nervous about making any kind of public statement. Then when he gets a microphone, the nervous boy says, “I’m a little shy.”
“Are you a little shy?” Asked the mother. “Do you want to tell everyone if you are a boy or a girl?” In response, Phoenix said, “I just want to tell them that I’m a girl.”
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Then the boy said, “I don’t want to do that.”
“Good,” replied the mother. “Phoenix wants you to know she’s a girl and prefers the pronouns ‘she’ and ‘her’.”
With that, the boy received a pink flower and everyone gathered for the ceremony said together, “May you be well, safe and whole. We honor you exactly as you are.”
According to a Time report, Phoenix, who was 4 years old when HBO began filming the documentary series, first identified herself as a “boy-girl,” then chose to identify as a female, before reverting to her biological identity as a male at age of 7years old.
Sharon Liese, the series director, told the channel that “It’s not unusual that kids know [that they are trans] when they are young.”
“People ask me, how do kids know when they are four years old? I quickly realized that is not the question. The question is, how do you not believe them?”
Watch these adults push a toddler dressed in rainbow clothing to publicly announce that he is a girl named “Phoenix” who would “prefer she and her pronouns.”
“I’m a little shy,” the toddler says, when offered the microphone to make the announcement.pic.twitter.com/jfVHv7p7dT
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) November 23, 2020