How Robert De Niro, Liev Schreiber & More Support Their Trans Kids

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When it comes to their kids, these stars are full of pride.

In fact, celebs like Robert De Niro, Liev Schreiber and more have been vocal about just how proud they are of their children who are members of the LGBTQ+ community.

After De Niro’s daughter Airyn De Niro came out as trans in 2025, the Meet the Parents actor—who shares Airyn with his ex Toukie Smith—declared his full support for his child.

“I loved and supported Aaron as my son,” the Oscar winner said in a statement to E! News in April 2025, “and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter.”

“I don’t know what the big deal is,” he continued. “I love all my children.”

And De Niro is certainly not alone, as Schreiber and his ex Naomi Watts never batted an eye when it came to their 17-year-old daughter Kai Schreiber.

“Kai was always who Kai is,” the Ray Donovan actor told Variety in 2025. “But I suppose the most profound moment was her asking us to change her pronouns. To be honest with you, it didn’t feel like that big of a deal to me only because Kai had been so feminine for so long.”

The Emmy nominee—who also shares son Sasha Schreiber, 18, with Watts—had also been moved as he watched Kai embrace her place in the trans community.

“Kai is such a fighter,” he said. “It’s important that she goes, ‘Hey, I am trans,’ and, ‘Look at me.’”

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As for Jamie Lee Curtis, the Freaky Friday actress told AARP in 2021 that she and husband Christopher Guest "watched in wonder and pride as our son became our daughter Ruby.”

As the Oscar winner later recalled, Ruby first texted her about coming out as she’d been too nervous about having the conversation face-to-face.

"I called her immediately," Curtis told People in a mother-daughter interview in 2021. "Needless to say there were some tears involved."

"But if one person reads this, sees a picture of Ruby and me and says, 'I feel free to say this is who I am,'” she continued, “then it's worth it."

Most important to Curtis—who is also mom to Annie Guest, 39—was reiterating that “a mother's love knows no judgment.”

“As a mother, I stand in total solidarity with my children as they move forward in the universe as their authentic selves,” she said, “with their own minds and bodies and ideas."

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Wayan’s child Kai Wayans, 26, came out as trans in 2023, with the Scary Movie star touching on the journey they experienced together.

"I gotta respect their wishes, right. And as a parent I just want my kids to be free," the 53-year-old said on The Breakfast Club at the time. "I want them to be free in spirit, free in thought, free to be themselves.”

“The more you know yourself, the more you can govern yourself, the more you live your truth, the happier your existence,” he added. “So, if they can't get that in a household with their father and their mother, how the f--k do I send them out into the world with that kind of confidence?"

He added, "I'm just so proud of them for being them."

For a look at how more stars have embraced their roles in the LGBTQ+ community, keep reading.

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