Warren Beatty & Annette Bening's Trans Son Speaks
In this six-and-a-half-minute-long video Q&A for the site WeHappyTrans.com, Warren Beatty and Annette Bening's 20-year-old Stephen Ira Beatty, formerly Kathlyn Elizabeth Beatty, openly talks about how he made the transition from girl to boy at the age of 14. Stephen started the video by introducing himself like this:
"My name is Stephen. I identify as a trans man, a faggy queen, a homosexual, a queer, a nerd fighter, a writer, an artist and a guy who needs a haircut."
Stephen goes on to explain that he's a femme trans dude who usually wears bows in his hair and beads around his neck and shit. The answer that has some people squinting at is the one Stephen gave when asked who's been the most supportive. Stephen said his friends, and the words "mom, dad and the rest of my family" never came shooting out of his talk hole. Maybe Warren and Annette aren't supportive or maybe he didn't feel like dropping a name on his keyboard. I don't know, but it is nice to see that a celebrity kid can grow up to not be a spoiled piece of trash who uses their last name to get a shit show on E!.
And if speed talking was an Olympic sport, Stephen would come in second place only to a mile-a-minute-talker on meth and Adderall. Dude talks so damn fast. Don't you remember when you were 20 and you were so excited and happy about everything that the words popped up in your brain faster than your mouth could spit them out? Then as your ass got older, the booze and bitterness slowed you down and you'd rather roll your eyes than use your mouth to speak. No, I don't remember that either, because most of us were always eye-rolling bitches.
Also, adorable Stephen here forgot to mention that he's a time traveler from 1977.
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I don't consider 99% of the comments here vicious, I would describe most of the negative sounding ones as written by folks who are just sincerely confused. I am too. So out of curiosity, I went traveling on the net to find the definition of some of these never-before-heard-by-me terms such as "genderqueer.". Anyway, I found this really enlightening interview with someone who identifies themselves as a "Non-Binary" person. It is really interesting:
http://zengersmag.blogspot.com/2011/07/red-non-binary-person-isnt-male-f...
And I'm still confused! But at least I'm getting the terminology down better. I recommend reading it.
Submitted by TelevisedRevolution on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 2:52am.
with this many comments I know exactly what happened. I'm not going to bother scrolling back (used to be I couldn't stop myself).
thanks to all the champions of the Real, the Freaks, the Little People, the Kids, and those who have to just be themselves in a Fucked up world.
I know you're out there on the D. that's why i can't quit you.
and to those of you who just don't get it, don't trip so hard. maybe it just ain't for you to get.
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^^ This.
Submitted by 19Jocelyn43 on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 7:00am.
STEPHEN is fine.
PS. You are a closed minded dick
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I've found it to be a shame, when people are afraid of other people, and feel the NEED to hide behind screen names. When did fear become the new perfume?
I am not the only one who believes Kathlyn's issues are not gender related (although that's the bandwagon of her choice). She may be bi-polar. She certainly craves attention and in that she differs so much from both her parents as well as her 3 siblings. On YouTube there were short production clips from when she was a student at Areté Preparatory Academy and what those prove is that she needs to be the center of attention: she was constantly trying to steal the focus away when other students were doing their bit. There's something wrong with this girl and I feel sad for her and her family that they don't seem to be able to seek the right treatment for her issues, instead agree with her mutilating her body for no reason.
I think one of the main problems in this particular case is that Kathlyn Beatty IS an extremely gifted and intelligent person. Both her parents are no slackers in the intelligence department either, but Beatty already said of her when she was a child that "her intelligence is off the charts".
That may have been a problem in her whole evaluation by psychologists, a proces all trans people must endure before they are "allowed" to take certain steps. There's a theory out there that these psychologists simply were not able to reason with her at her level of intelligence. Isn't there a saying that there's only a very fine line between genius and insanity? I believe this girl is so intelligent, that her head just about explodes, hence the warp speed speech pattern, the need to post something on twitter every nano second, the need to convince everybody of her being right about just about everything.
Many people who have been following her since she sort of, begrudingly at first, became a known entity on the internet, think of her as a mad genius and of those people, a significant number are afraid she's going to explode or implode at some point. It must be hard being her, with all these thoughts, ideas and facts running around in her head and very few people around to be able to communicate with on her level. Part of her (trans) behavior might be an expression of frustration because of this.
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TNX for the link skinny.... jeebus. I *heard* about it from a phone call.... woke me up.
Jesus.... I think I just found religion
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ALWAYS check the setting on the blowtorch!
Submitted by skinny fat on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 6:39am.
strange, strange world, skinny... strange, strange world.
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"I could listen to a babbling brook,
and hear a song that I could understand.
I keep wishing it could be that way.
Because my world would be a Wonderland."
don't know. apparently he went to the front of the theater, threw some tear gas and started shooting. a baby was shot at close range. what was a baby doing there????? doesn't matter, WTF is wrong with people? they do have him in custody
Submitted by skinny fat on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 6:30am.
fucked up world, man, shooting kids at the movies. fucked up.
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i've got nothing to add to this... that's just royally fucked up.
*edited*... "Witnesses, however, told KUSA that the gunman kicked in an emergency exit door"... doesn't an alarm sound when the emergency doors are opened?
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"I could listen to a babbling brook,
and hear a song that I could understand.
I keep wishing it could be that way.
Because my world would be a Wonderland."
fucked up world, man, shooting kids at the movies. fucked up.
Submitted by skinny fat on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 6:27am.
thanky!
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"I could listen to a babbling brook,
and hear a song that I could understand.
I keep wishing it could be that way.
Because my world would be a Wonderland."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/20/us/colorado-theater-shooting/index.html?hp...
link to dark knight shooting
Submitted by skinny fat on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 6:20am.
some nut shot up a theater showing dark night in colorado last night and 14 people are dead including kids. he used explosives, tear gas and 3 guns. what a fucked up world.
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was he masturbating in the theatre?... just wondering, 'cause the cops don't take kindly to that kind of behavior!
no, seriously.. link please.
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"I could listen to a babbling brook,
and hear a song that I could understand.
I keep wishing it could be that way.
Because my world would be a Wonderland."
some nut shot up a theater showing dark night in colorado last night and 14 people are dead including kids. he used explosives, tear gas and 3 guns. what a fucked up world.
Can't be bothered reading all the comments, but-
I don't see the problem, he comes across just as he says he feels, like a 'a trans man, a faggy queen, a homosexual, a queer, a nerd fighter, a writer, an artist...' BUT I completely disagree about the haircut!
Cute
I'm getting so far out one day I won't come back at all
William S Burroughs
Unless its some fun of the worst kind or she was high, this girl is seriously fucked up in the head... Such a pity...
Submitted by Mel-Tang on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 4:25am.
I need to know how you can be born a girl, but want to become a guy that likes girls.
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well, it does make burping, and farting in public a lot more acceptable. plus there's the whole scratching the junk thing that guys got going for us... yeah, this doesn't answer your query in the least, does it?... what do ya want from me, it's four in the morning!!
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"I could listen to a babbling brook,
and hear a song that I could understand.
I keep wishing it could be that way.
Because my world would be a Wonderland."
I need to know how you can be born a girl, but want to become a guy that likes girls. Why not just stay a lesbian? Less dramaaa
www.poopreport.com :)
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He talks so damn fast; I believe he could work for an auction house, and be very successful.
Wow and the drama is actually inside the extra long thread tonight. I am glad to see everyone (mostly) hugged and made up.
with this many comments I know exactly what happened. I'm not going to bother scrolling back (used to be I couldn't stop myself).
thanks to all the champions of the Real, the Freaks, the Little People, the Kids, and those who have to just be themselves in a Fucked up world.
I know you're out there on the D. that's why i can't quit you.
and to those of you who just don't get it, don't trip so hard. maybe it just ain't for you to get.
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God don't like ugly.
I have not read any of the comments except for the one that mentioned how "heated" this thread has been so I am only replying to the conjecture in Michael's post and the implication in Stephen's video that his parents may not be supportive of him. I heard a rumor a few years ago that Bening and Beatty had a gay daughter and that while Warren was having a hard time with it, Annette was adamant that she did not want to lose her and so accepted her almost with a "fuck my husband" attitude. However, it appears there was much more going on with their daughter than just being gay and anyone who can't see how hard this would be on all but the most morally narcissistic (and somewhat disinterested if you ask me) parents is living in that self-absorbed me me me world known as La La Land. I know that human sexuality is a very profound and complex biological and psychological phenomena and I know that we all start off as female in the womb, so I understand where a great variety of outcomes can occur genetically, congenitally, and/or environmentally. I'll also admit I'm somewhat confused as to the many levels of - and labels used by - those who feel they were born into the body of the wrong gender. But a transgendered person strongly implies the removal of primary sex organs. Helloooo?!!!!
I just heard the vid, and he reminds me of his father, Warren. Warren is all into that political shit.
Pressured speech is a hallmark symptom of mania or hypomania in bipolar disorder. The presence of pressured speech in combination with several other symptoms can confirm a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
In his glossary, Dr. Jacob L. Driesen defines pressured speech as "rapid, virtually nonstop, often loud and emphatic, seemingly driven, and usually hard to interrupt. It typically occurs in mania [and hypomania] and in some drug-induced states and in severe anxiety states." In her book Bipolar Disorders, Mitzi Waltz uses the phrase "motormouth" to describe pressured speech.
Pressured speech occurs in bipolar children as well as adults.
I just remembered this. A friend of mine had it and his therapist diagnosed him with bipolar disorder.
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"Sal, darling, you are the reason some women go gay. ♥" - Submitted by Dog on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 6:32pm.
The fuck did he just say? What a little motormouth. Did this kid come out of a mumblecore movie or did Diablo Cody write Juno based on him? I suppose he's confident but he carried himself like a movie character. Just like IF said, he threw every hip word that he knew but still, he comes across as a nice person.
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"Sal, darling, you are the reason some women go gay. ♥" - Submitted by Dog on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 6:32pm.
Some of my best friends are black!
Being transgender is really not that big a deal. Or tragic. But whatever. Not like he changed who he is.
I don't know...I think he's cute! If I were younger and didn't know he was a she-to-he (because that might be tough to overcome at first, just being honest here)...I might find myself strangely attracted to him.
Isn't he an answer to a blind? I could have sworn there was a blind about a transgender kid who hated his parents and father, especially. It was from a couple of years ago.
*Leaves video for everyone in this thread*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhKq9JvssB8
Good Night everyone!
Submitted by it.is.me on Thu, 07/19/2012 -7:32pm.
If, on the inside you think, "Hey, this dude is just creeping me the fuck out"...then so fucking what. Shut your trap and be pleasant, it won't cost you your principles, and more importantly, it won't ruin somebody's day.
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Agreed....unfortunately many people think that not expressing disapproval somehow gives the other person tacit approval of their lifestyle. Or they feel the need to make the person aware that they aren't acting appropriately, educate them, in case they aren't aware.
When he says he started to transition at 14, does he mean he changed his name and style of dress or also started taking meds? Because that most definitely sounds like a man's voice to me and not a woman's voice.
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"Wait until the bitch finds the family of wombats living in her chocha." - MK
BSF - you had me at penis loving.... however, won me over at big, sloppy, bleeding heart...
*polishes 3" think steel box that holds my emotions* :P
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"It's no mystery that ass has always been tits' greatest enemy. It's almost like a Muslim-Jewish thing, but with tits and ass." ~ Kenny Powers
I think he is adorable and smart. I predict good things for him.
Whatever the gender, this person sounds like the worst kind of twitter person.
How adorkable. It's like he sprang from Rachel Maddow's head in full nerd swag. My only regret is that he doesn't look more like his hot whore of a father.
I see it got heated all up and through here. I won't pretend to totally "get" what this kid is repping, but I support his right to rep it.
And, Bored Slore, no hiding for this dlister. Allow me to introduce myself: I'm a penis loving female mammal with a world weary exterior that protects a big, sloppy, bleeding, open heart.
*cheers*
The thing I don't understand is why he's so obsessed about the teapot.
Jesus, he has every trendy buzz word and expression down for the "alternative" world. He's also reading everything off a teleprompter which is fine but his "ad lib lines are well-rehearsed".
Bless his heart, he's very smart. Good on him but obviously ma and pa ain't too pleased!
Oh and we get it, you're "20 years old".
LOL on the 70s thing!
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Dark-sided!
He seems like a real sweetheart.
It must be tough though, female-to-male trans have a harder time getting all the equipment installed so to speak. If done even in the most state-of-the-art fashion, it's still much smaller than your average dick and has difficulty functioning like a dick.
I hope they innovate some device like they did with amputees. Nobody should be excluded from the joys of dickery.
And why is everyone stressing that they don't understand it? You don't understand it because you're fortunate enough to love your junk! I'm thrilled I was born into the right body!!! Just be thrilled you don't have to go through it.
That is some wild-assed shit--there is no end to the human creativity on display at youtube. She uses an echo effect to make it seem more complicated, but she is still a fast talker.
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Submitted by beb on Thu, 07/19/2012 - 7:05pm....I would love to see Stephen do a duet with Amy Heidemann from Karmin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khCokQt--l4
Quietly checks fukitol bottle.. Replaces the empty... ::::takes a large G&T from Steffystef...:::::returns to bleachers:::::
My issues now have issues.. So take a number.
How 'bout dem Yankees?
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people arent remembered,,,,,
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ALWAYS check the setting on the blowtorch!
Here's the thing, if she started "transitioning" to what she preceives as a male at the age of 14(I'm sure there's been debate on this about what they actually "are", I go by biology, deal with it), then that means she would have needed atleast one or both of her parent's permission to do this, as she was under the age of 18. So they would have had to have been atleast somewhat supportive, they also spent their money on this, and may STILL be funding their "childs" transition.
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"What if all you understand could fit into the center of a hand? And then you found it wasn't you, who held the sum of everything you knew?"
Armed with a beer in hand, I will proceed to read through all 7 pages of this thread.
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It's PHELPS time!
As I tell my 11-year old daughter, one can't like everybody. And that's the honest truth. To say otherwise is living in fucking la-la land. However, I expect her to be polite and respectful at all times. If, on the inside you think, "Hey, this dude is just creeping me the fuck out"...then so fucking what. Shut your trap and be pleasant, it won't cost you your principles, and more importantly, it won't ruin somebody's day.
If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
Want to keep things light after a long day at work:
No matter who he is and who he wants to bump and grind with, I would love to see Stephen do a duet with Amy Heidemann from Karmin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khCokQt--l4
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"Taylor has an unfair advantage. Bitch never has to buy lube since her eyes are greasier than the peen of the lone top at a gay orgy." - MK
Ditto on that. I was on another forum some years ago, and I let my true identity be known. So I am kicking dude's ass in an argument, and all of a sudden fucker starts talking about meeting me on a dark street corner in chicago to resolve our differences--and he knew people who know where I live. Nothing I hate more than backing out of a good flame war just to avoid lead poisoning.
PS. Hope no transgender types are offended by my unserious comments. There is probably lots of supportive forums to bare one's soul in, but this is not one of them.
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Submitted by jack-n-the-hat on Thu, 07/19/2012 - 5:31pm....I strongly recommend you take your personal info down. In the past, people have posted personal information and got fucked by doing so...
Submitted by Dog on Thu, 07/19/2012 - 6:44pm.
If there fuckery afoot in here or do I not want to know?
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Dicks were about to be choked or something and then a YellowPages book flew open and all of us yelled to close the info down and drinks almost dried up then we all left the lecture halls to cut class.
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"Discussions about what is good, beautiful, noble, pure, true, could always go on. Why is that important? Because that is the only conversation worth having." C.Hitchens,1949-2011. (RIP MCA, "no sleep til Brooklyn") *caprica six was/is here*
When I posited that gender sense and sex gender interest are two separate attributes, this combination of traits was predicted to exist.
This she male is the higgs boson of sexuality.
Dude talks like a hummingbird on meth--I admire mk for capturing his self-identification list. I got lost somewhere around 'plush toy anti-fetishist'...
I am somewhat confused, but I think he was born with female sex organs, but wanted to be a gay man instead--the main difference being fucking gay men rather than straight ones. Well, more power to him--glad I don't have to deal with that stuff.
Is the english language now inadequate? I find the labels male and female just don't seem adequate to the task anymore.
Just think, his folks are probably wishing he was something simple like gay--and in hollywood, gay is royalty anyway.
On the one hand I think it's wonderful to see articulate and educated 20 year olds in this day and age of total retardation but on the other the cynical cunt in me thinks "oh shut up you fucking know-it-all high on ADD meds"!