“I’m waiting to change [my name] legally due to President So-and-So wreaking chaos on trans people’s ability to update their identity documents.”

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Despite the fact that he usually remains private when it comes to his family and personal life, Robert immediately told Variety in a statement, “I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I don’t know what the big deal is. I love all my children.” He later reiterated at the Tribeca Film Festival, “The main thing is to support your kids. As long as they’re not hurting themselves, doing anything that’s destructive or anything like that, you have to support them. Period. Whatever it is, you have to support them. And they have to know that you support them. Always.”

A couple of months later, Bain revealed that some industry figures “warned” him against coming out. “Of course I thought about the risk — that we might lose fans,” he said before adding, “But then I thought, society is changing… I might gain more than I might lose.”

“My attraction to women is a room in the house that is my identity,” she said, adding that her husband, screenwriter Alex Jenkins Reid, understood that her novel Evelyn Hugo — ultimately a love story about two women — was about her “spending time in that room.” “He was so excited for me, like, ‘What a great way for you to express this side of you.’ And he helped me get the book to be as romantic and beautiful as it could be,” she shared.

More recently, Lola quipped that she was “back to” dating women after finding out that a man she’d been seeing for four months was secretly living a double life.

Coming out as trans in 2021, Aja said, “I have lived my life as non-binary since 2018 and have recently began to identify more with the feminine aspect of my identity.”

“people keep joking so much abt me being gay when I literally am(I’m bi),” she wrote over the video, while adding in the caption, “happy pride month to all and to all a goodnight hehehe.”

“There are times I feel like I am taking a risk and this is scary and I’m doing it in a public forum. But to say, ‘No, I only get one life and I want to be happy,’ that’s what life is all about,” she added.

Hayden, 36, shared that she waited to come out because it never felt like “the right time.” “It was either I was too young, and I was being forced to be perfect at all times. I was not encouraged to just be myself. Then came the period where it felt like people coming out, especially women, saying that they were bisexual or liked girls, was a fad,” she said.