October 21, 2025
Transgenderism: Hollywood celebrities try keeping up with the Joneses
By James Zumwalt
The idiom “keeping up with the Joneses” evolved from a 1913 newspaper comic strip of the same name that ran until 1938. The subject matter of the strip was the McGinis family who struggled to keep up with their neighbors—the Joneses. Ever since then, the phrase has been used to reference those people who strive to accumulate wealth or other goods that others have. Perhaps no one locale reflects this mindset among its residents more so than Hollywood.
It is Hollywood that has become fertile ground for transgenderism, giving rise to at least 70 stars who have announced their transition. But with this wave of transgender revelation, it seems to be a matter of keeping up with the Joneses as one-by-one various Hollywood celebrities proudly announce support for their transgender or non-binary children.
While a parent’s support for children is all important, the question arises as to whether it is necessary to publicly announce it rather than simply just to provide it—however misguided that “support” may be. But as these celebrities continue to make such announcements, it really seems to be a contest. Could this be the reason that a new ground-breaking study shockingly reports that 94% of children born to American celebrities identify as transgender or non-binary?
An earlier study, published in 2022 in Pediatrics and using a large national database of U.S. adolescents, provided evidence that an outbreak in transgenderism was more likely attributable to “social contagion” rather than true identification as such. If so, the contagion appears to be in freefall. A subsequent self-reported transgender and non-binary survey indicates the percentage has dropped from 6.8% in 2023 to about 3.8% in 2025—with the decline most pronounced among undergraduate students under the age of 24.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis recently went on line claiming no one can tell which of her two daughters is trans and she “wouldn’t have it any other way.” (Sorry, Jamie, we can.) But the transgender issue has become so prevalent in Hollywood that an interviewer asked Sylvester Stallone’s wife, Jennifer Flavin, 57, about the rise of trans children.
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