Steve Hofmeyr lashes out at Charlize Theron over trans daughter
Steve Hofmeyr (Pic: Facebook)
Controversial South African singer Steve Hofmeyr has slammed Charlize Theron’s decision to accept her transgender daughter’s identity.
The actress recently revealed that her seven-year-old adopted South African child, Jackson, identifies as a girl. (The star is also raising an adopted American girl.)
“Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,” Theron told the Daily Mail about Jackson. “Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said: ‘I am not a boy!’
“So there you go! I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive,” the 43-year-old said.
Taking to Twitter, Hofmeyr attacked Theron for her parenting choices.
“Dear Charlize,” he wrote in Afrikaans. “My daughter sometimes wears pants. She is 20-months-old. Do you think it’s time to ask whether she’s also feeling an excess of Y-chromosomes?”
Hofmeyr’s sarcastic comment reveals his ignorance about what it means to be transgender. It also suggests that he believes Theron’s daughter is too young to know who she is.
The post sparked a flurry of transphobic comments from Hofmeyr’s followers, which he chose not to curtail or condemn. Some called Theron “sick” and a “slut” and asked if a child should be indulged if they believe they are a cat or a dolphin.
Johann Fourie accused Hofmeyr of mocking transgender people’s struggles. “There is no correlation between chromosomes and identity. Biological sex and identity are not the same thing,” he said.
Writing on Facebook, Elliott Kotze, who identifies as transqueer, condemned Hofmeyr’s transphobia.
“Prejudice never walks in single file; hatred loves spreading; fear consumes everything in its path. Racism, transphobia … oppression by any other name would smell as vile,” said Kotze.
In recent years, Hofmeyr has styled himself as a political commentator and a ‘defender’ of white Afrikaners (whom he asserts are being oppressed and murdered in post-apartheid South Africa). Critics have accused him of being a racist and of peddling right-wing conspiracies.
Liewe Charlize
My dogter dra soms broekies. Sy is 20 maande oud. Is dit dalk die regte tyd om haar te vra of sy ‘n oorwig aan y-chromosoom aanvoel?— Steve Hofmeyr (@steve_hofmeyr) April 21, 2019
Nevermind “controversial”; Steve Hofmeyr is an ignorant asshole. He should rather be paying attention to himself and his own kids before pointing to those of others.
Well thats just the sort of rather misinformed remark that one has come to expect from Steve Hofmeyer. I am not even vaguely surprised really. What I find sad is that he has any following at all and I am truly proud that Charlize is doing so well as a mother and a star. We all know who she is internationally. Thank God Steve is just a large idiot in a small pond
What I find interesting is that Charlize’s son is 3, not comprehending what it means to be trans neither a female. At that age I wanted to be a train, Yes A TRAIN! I didn’t understand the concept, and neither does that boy. He probably doesn’t even know how to string words in order so it makes a coherent sentence! I say Steve is right!
Toddlers and small children have a wild and vivid imagination. If you have children u will know that a toddler is not able to distinguish between fantasy and reality. To believe a 3 year old boy when he says im actually a girl is really absurd…
The fact is that she is proud of her child and not ashamed like your typical homophobic parent would be. That’s the difference. Whether or not it’s the child’s imagination is irrelevant.
love your comment…. Craig
I don’t think Steve was disrespectful but I agree that a 3 year old child’s hormones must still develop. It is too early yet. I talk out of experience.
Well said Craig!
I’m open to more thought on the subject but I do question Charlize’s judgement here. I went through a short phase at age 3/4 where I wanted to be a girl, largely because I had a sister two years older than me. My Mom didn’t discourage nor encourage, and I settled back into what was natural for me, and that was to be a boy. Perhaps greatly premature on Charlize’s part to decide based on the whim of a three year old?
Steve Hofmeyr is an ignorant plonker who doesn’t know what being a star (and therefore worthy of being taken seriously.)
Having a small following of a minority language group in an irrelevant does not make you a star. Charlize Theron on the other hand is true star quality and worthy taking note of. Sorry Steve, you are a has-been nothing and a complete waste of space.
As a three year old toddler I had no comprehension whatsoever of who I was let alone Gender identification, to identify as a Girl is purely innocent childish ramblings I’m not in anyway condoning Gender identification to embrace your true inner self but surely a three year old child does not understand the concept of Gender or Identity.