A vision

Dreaming the glorious dream.

Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber’s trans daughter, Kai, always had a vision for her future.

“I want to be a supermodel. Period,” Kai, 16, said in a Q&A with Interview Magazine published Wednesday when asked to share her dream career.

Ahhhh isn’t that lovely? Right up there with wanting to find cures for lethal diseases and ending poverty and lawyering for justice. He wants to be stared at. Kids today have such lofty ambitions!

“I’ve been practising my walks in the kitchen for years; my mum can show you all the videos I forced her to film,” she continued. “Struggling with gender identity from a young age most likely had something to do with it.” The teenager added, “I always wanted to grow up and be a beautiful, glamorous, influential woman, like Marilyn.”

And there you go. The kid, like many kids, had a fixation on a movie star, and unlike many kids went from there to trying to be the movie star. Also unlike many kids: he’s failed to grow out of it. He’s also failed to grasp that Marilyn was not “influential” in any way that sane adults want. He’s even failed to grasp that she was miserable.

Children with this little ability to grasp basic facts should not be encouraged to self-mutilate.

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