Annette Bening Opens Up About Her Transgender Son Stephen Ira: 'I'm Very, Very Proud of Him'

"He's overseen something that is exceptionally testing with incredible style and extraordinary insight," the on-screen character said of her most seasoned kid

that Stephen dealt with his change with "style" and "insight" in the wake of distinguishing as transgender at age 14.

Annette Bening Opens Up About HerTransgender Son Stephen Ira.  "He's overseen something that is extremely testing with extraordinary style and incredible insight," Bening told AARP in a meeting distributed Monday. "He's a lucid, attentive individual, and I'm incredibly, glad for him"

Beatty has called Stephen, who is currently 27, his "legend."

"He's a progressive, a virtuoso, and my saint, similar to every one of my kids," the Bonnie and Clyde entertainer, 82, revealed to Vanity Fair in 2016.

Presently an essayist, Stephen stood out as truly newsworthy in 2015 for standing up after the promoted passing of 17-year-old Ohio transgender teenager Leelah Alcorn, who kicked the bucket by suicide after her folks removed her from school when they learned she distinguished as a young lady.

"Give this young lady the harmony in death that she merits and work for what she needed, work for the things she required while she lived," Stephen tweeted, later including, "On the off chance that YOU CAN'T HANDLE HAVING A TRANS KID, DON'T HAVE KIDS."

Bening and Beatty are additionally guardians to 25-year-old child Benjamin and girls Isabel, 22, and Ella, 19, who as of late made a beeline for school at Juilliard, authoritatively making the two A-rundown guardians void nesters.

"At the point when I was more youthful, some portion of me figured I could spare my kids from misery, which was, obviously, silly," Bening added to AARP.

"They need to experience their battles," she told the outlet, including that every one of the four of her children are "especially their very own kin now."