Jamie Lee Curtis came clean about the gender identity of her youngest kid, whom she had with director Christopher Guest, in the August/September 2021 edition of AARP Magazine. Her child is a transgender woman.

After obtaining Ruby’s consent, Curtis disseminated the material that concerned her daughter Ruby, who is now 27 years old. Annie, who is 36 years old and Curtis’s oldest daughter, works as a dance teacher. The younger of Curtis’s two daughters is a game designer.

It is never an easy road for someone who has accepted their identity as a trans person, whether it be coming out to the people you care about or going through the process of transitioning. Nevertheless, this may be made simpler with the help of loving parents and supporting friends and family members. This was absolutely the case with the daughter of Curtis, since their parents were quick to welcome them in their new identity. This was the situation with Curtis’ daughter.

But, even for parents, this may be a difficult trip since it entails more than just seeing the outward changes that occur in their kid during this time. About Curtis, she is someone who has enthusiastically accepted this transition. She disclosed this information in order to demonstrate her ongoing support for her transgender daughter by saying that the pronouns used to refer to her recently acquired Oscars trophy are distinct from those used to refer to “she or her.”

Despite being one of the most well-loved and respected actresses in the entertainment business, Curtis won her first-ever Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 64, defying the odds in the process. Curtis received the award for Best Supporting Actress. She took home the trophy with her co-stars Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan for their work in the film “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once,” which also received the award for Best Picture.

Continue reading to find more about how Curtis came to embrace her transgender daughter and how she supported her daughter throughout her quest for acceptance and transformation.

Curtis has seen her transgender daughter’s path toward self-discovery with a mixture of pride and admiration. She explained to AARP Magazine that she realizes that gender isn’t fixed and that life is a “continuous transformation,” while speaking about her daughter Ruby’s choice to come out as a transgender woman. Ruby’s mother was speaking about Ruby’s decision to come out as a transgender woman.

She went on to remark that she and her husband “have watched with surprise and delight as our boy became our daughter Ruby.” [Continued from previous sentence]

In the interview that they gave to PEOPLE, both Ruby’s mother and daughter discussed the time period when Ruby initially came out. Ruby was unable to truly come out to her parents when they were sitting down with her and despite telling them that she needed to open up to them about something important, she was unable to do so while sitting down with her parents. Instead, she informed them about it by text message.

Ruby expressed her apprehension by saying, “That was unsettling – just the mere reality of telling them something about myself that they didn’t know.” That was daunting, but I didn’t let my anxiety get the best of me. They had shown such tolerance for me throughout my whole life.

Curtis remembered that the moment she found out, she immediately contacted her daughter, and she revealed that there were some tears involved in the phone conversation.

According to the article in the magazine, the two were more at ease with each other recently; nevertheless, this did not come without a few challenges along the road.

“It’s speaking a new language,” Curtis added. “It’s all about picking up new jargon and vocabulary. I am just starting off. I am not someone who pretends to know a great deal about it when I don’t. And I’m not going to do a very good job of it; I’m going to mess up. I would want to strive to avoid making significant blunders.”

In point of fact, after Curtis had been presented with her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, she was asked how she felt about being one of the many women who had been nominated for (and won) awards at the 2023 Oscars. Her response was given in response to this question.

Curtis elaborated on her statement by adding that she would want to “see a lot more women get nominated so that there’s gender balance in all of the areas, in all of the branches.” She described the experience as being “surreal and proud.”

“We are in no way close to reaching that point, and of course, the concept of inclusion raises the more fundamental issue of how one can include everyone when there are only two options available. This makes things extremely challenging.”

And yet to de-gender the category likewise, I’m worried would decrease the prospects for more women, which is something I also have been working hard to try to promote. Curtis went on to emphasize that she well understands the discrepancy since she is the mother of a transgender daughter.

Yet in the end, Curtis reaffirmed that she wished for not just more diversity in general, but also greater representation of women in particular. “essentially just f***ing more women everywhere, any time,” she stated.

Curtis made an appearance on The TODAY Show the day after her huge triumph, and during her time there, she was overcome with emotion after viewing her acceptance speech for the first time since the event.

“What’s up, everyone in the TODAY!” Curtis enthusiastically met her as she proudly displayed her Oscar trophy. They are shown here.

The Academy Award–winning actress was there at the moment, and Savannah Guthrie, who was with Hoda Kotb at the time, asked her, “Have we named her?”

Shortly after that, Curtis spoke the following words: “In support of my daughter Ruby, I’m having them be a ‘they/them.

‘ They are getting settled in, and I’m simply going to refer to them as “them.”

She reminisced with tears in her eyes, “In my life, I never believed in a million years that I would have these couple of days, and I’m extremely affected by the entire thing.” “In my life, I never dreamed in a million years that I would have these couple of days.”