Shock after 4-year-old goes viral for announcing his TRANSITION with celebration at Pride parade
A four-year-old born as a female announced his transition to being a boy via a rainbow-fueled gender reveal at the Vancouver Pride Parade.
Hailing from British Columbia, Canada, Charlie Danger Lloyd was assigned the female gender at birth but he always expressed the desire to be a different gender from a very young age, his mother Alaina Bourrel confirmed. The video going viral on the internet captures Charlie, who is now using he/him pronouns, popping confetti canon that filled the area with blue smoke to celebrate his transition in July.
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“Once they closed the road, Charlie strutted out with Grammy and they faced the sidelines and after a short struggle, the cannon exploded with blue smoke and biodegradable confetti,” Alaina told South West News Service after her little boy ran into her arms. “Charlie jumped with joy as the crowd cheered him on. He couldn’t believe the love and support he was shown from the bystanders.”
Alaina revealed that the happy moment was inspired by his original gender reveal in which the smoke didn’t come out properly from the canon. "When we told him the story, he asked for a re-do with his granny at the Vancouver Pride Parade — so we bought him a smoke cannon and tucked it away for this day," she said.
Despite Charlie’s happiness, his mom revealed she was constantly trolled by people online, who called her a “pedophile, groomer and rapist” for supporting her son’s transition. Further, Bourrel said that her child expressed the urge to become a boy at the age of 2. He also tried to convince people that he was a boy and used to say “growing to look just like daddy” and “I’m a boy” every day.
The mother said they didn’t take Charlie’s wishes seriously until the end of 2021 when he stopped shopping in the girls’ section and decided to cut his hair short. “He wasn’t your typical little girl. He would play with other boys and the parents would say he was more of a boy than their children,” she recalled.
“He refused to shop in the girl’s section, but was too nervous to shop in the boys,” she said. “After lots of expressing his feelings and emotions with me, he decided that he wanted a new wardrobe so we set out to find our new style.”
Ignoring the trollers who criticized them for supporting their child’s decision and called them ‘brainwasher’, Bourrel said their family and friends have been nothing but supportive of the preschooler. "His choices were not questioned and he was congratulated and everyone began using new pronouns," the young mother said.