I'm Struggling as a Parent | The Mr. Beast Gender Transition [Trans]

folks I need help as a parent

understanding what to do with a

7-year-old who is now asking me why one

of his favorite cast members of the show

Mr Beast on YouTube uh has now

transitioned uh to uh identifying as a

female so now one of the uh individuals

Chris has transitioned uh they are

announcing that they are transend gender

uh this is uh a two-month difference

between the two photos here apparently

Chris is now on uh hormone replacement

therapy and uh he writes here in

response to this tweet uh HRT it's only

been two months uh this is obviously

what I mean Mr Beast is one of the most

popular channels actually the most

popular Channel on YouTube it's social

media presence is massive uh and the

question that I have is how do you

respond to now a seven-year-old who's

who's asking about this uh and and so

I'm going to give some of my responses

and thoughts on this but it is something

that I'm very curious about what Society

thinks and feels so for example here's

here's another photo of uh Chris with uh

Mr Beast here has just announced that uh

he is on uh hormone replacement and uh

understandably to some extent uh social

media's um some social media is confused

some social media is very proud my

question I don't really care what people

do or how they identify I just am as a

parent trying to figure out how to

respond to my seven-year-old son who's

now asking me I did not know that I

could go to the settings menu and choose

to be a girl so I have a five and

seven-year-old boy I want to be very

clear I support people in whatever

choices they make I have nothing against

how people identify or their sexual

preferences I don't really care how

people live their lives as long as it's

peaceful I I I'm not going to tell

people like can't or can do something

that's that's not my place so I'm

completely respectful of whatever

somebody's decision is there nothing

within me at all uh that that uh is is

is offended uh I'm just as a parent uh

trying to struggle through what do you

do so I've tried to logic out uh some of

the choices so uh one response that you

could make to a seven-year-old is you

could say yes you can choose but then

the question is well when can I choose

and maybe the appropriate response is

you could choose when you're 18 and

you're an adult but then now more and

more children that are in like first and

second grade are being exposed to people

changing their genders earlier and and

I'm like this they don't even know what

sex is at seven years old they take like

sex ed comes in fifth grade what the

hell am I supposed to tell a

seven-year-old who's now watching Mr

Beast and seeing one of his favorite

characters turn into a girl I don't know

what to do I am totally lost as a parent

so so on one hand I think okay well

maybe you could say yes you can

transition at 18 but even if you you

take that approach now how how do you

say that like oh it's an option that

unlocks when you're

18 what do you tell a child how do you

explain to a child now you're a girl and

then they respond and go but wait a

minute I thought you're a boy if you

have a you know a dingling and you're a

girl if if if you don't and now the

question is uh well no it's just how you

identify okay well why why then can't I

identify sooner right seven-year-olds

are very curious well if if if it's if

it's not a physical change that needs to

be made then and and I only need to say

I'm a girl oh I want to be a girl now I

don't know what to tell a seven-year-old

now the other thing that you could say

is no you can't change genders uh you're

biologically what you are but you can

dress up and act however you want you

can you can identify and tell everybody

what you are but biologically you are a

boy that that is what it is uh but now a

show that he's watching daily uh has an

individual that could potentially have

you know a name change obviously a

gender change and there'll be some form

of Behavioral changes and there may even

be talk about using Therapeutics like

hormone replacement therapy which all of

this is extremely confusing to a

seven-year-old now of course there's one

train of thought that well then you

could just censor uh Mr Beast but I you

you can't censor children they're going

to watch whatever they're going to watch

anyway so you can't censor it there are

going to be people in before he's 18 who

transition around him I just wouldn't

expect that in first grade I'd have to

start trying to explain uh that that

people can choose uh uh you know to

transition so so really I have no

problem with that at all I I guess more

of the issue that I see is now we're

forcing this discussion to children who

who don't know anything about really

even their their own sexuality or body

parts or what sex is or any of that so I

have no idea how to explain that to a

seven-year-old so the approach that I've

taken is that you know hey that's that's

something you know you can you can

decide uh generally when when you're 18

and older and uh and uh you know that's

uh we kind of left it at that uh but

again I don't know if I'm doing the

right thing as a parent because I I'm

not GNA censor I have nothing I'm not

opposed to the decision that the

individual made that Chris made uh the

question now though is yeah of course

censorship never works we know that

that's why like I said that's that's I

would never censor uh so but I know that

some people are right that's why I bring

it up on social media some people are

saying that's it I I now have to block

Mr Beast right I don't I don't think

that's the right answer at all uh the

question is how do we share that with

children uh and uh and that uh that's

not also necessarily the fault of it's

actually not at all it's not the fault

of Mr Beast or Chris because they make a

decision

I mean they are running a show that is

essentially a children's show so some

people are making the argument that hey

well if you have a children's show this

is not the place for discussing that

there's an argument to be made on that

side but then there's also the response

of like well if somebody makes a

transition and they happen to be a cast

member of the show are they just not

supposed to be a member of the show

anymore well no because they should be

able to freely identify however they

want but in terms of having that

discussion with a child is very

difficult it's a struggle uh I

personally think the the the best resp

response at least one that I will likely

follow is is uh one that will be look uh

people can make a choice to identify

however they'd like they are biolog

biologically what they are so you b you

are born what you are uh Some people

prefer to uh identify differently uh

dress and behave differently uh and in

the future there are things that you can

do whether those are surgeries or um

hormones or drugs but those are all

decisions that are made with a doctor in

my opinion when you're 18 and older and

and you're capable of of making that

decision uh but uh but for a

seven-year-old that's a I think that's a

mindblowing concept so I think that is

uh is a discussion that has to just be

had transparently with children and we

we treat our children like adults you

know we don't baby talk them we we teach

them everything that we can about uh

being productive members of society and

uh and and uh we're not afraid to talk

to them about uh adult uh things and and

uh things that happen in the world

whether it's whether it's uh People's

Choice whether it's uh how uh Finance

works or corporations work or business

works or how War works or how crime

Works uh or or race relations we'll

teach everything uh this is just a new

one that uh I suppose I wasn't expecting

uh really until at least the era of uh

of um more of a sexual Awakening if you

will and and becoming aware uh so it's

it just feels a little early as all so

anyway that's a little bit of a of a

struggle that uh that I have for uh for

a seven-year-old you know Max here

writes uh Free Will and understand the

consequences give people access or uh Ed

to educational material and have an

informed decision however there should

be an age limit right uh that's the

question is is how do you establish uh

age you know and then of course there's

also the you know then we get into

discussions about trans men

participating or like biological men

participating in women's sports I've

already made a video on that if you want

my opinion on that you could just type

into YouTube meet Kevin trans men

participating in women's sports and and

and you'll find that so anyway um yeah

all right that's um those are some of

the questions I have moving on