Dawson's Creek actress Busy Philipps has revealed that her 12-year-old son Birdie is gay and prefers they/them pronouns.
The 41-year-old television star opened up about her child's journey on an episode of her podcast Busy Philipps Is Doing Her Best.
She shared with her listeners: "Birdie told us at 10 years old and we immediately … I mean obviously, I knew that Birdie knew."
Busy went on that she has done a "bad job" with pronouns when talking to or about her son but was working on it.
She explained: "Because Birdie said that they would like their pronouns to be they/them, and I haven’t been doing it, and I said because I have this public persona and I want Birdie to be in control of their own narrative and not have to answer to anybody outside of our friends and family if they don’t want to.
"Bird was like, 'I don’t give a f**k. You can talk about how I’m gay and out.
You can talk about my pronouns. That would be cool with me. That’s great.’
So I said, 'OK, I can talk about it on the podcast.'
"So Birdie, my out kid, prefers they/them," she added.
"I f**k up sometimes, but I’m trying my best at that, too."
Busy has been married to I Feel Pretty director Marc Silverstein since 2007 and along with Birdie they have a daughter called Cricket, seven.
The American actress co-hosts the podcast with Cassie St. Onge and Busy Tonight staff-writer Shantira Jackson.
During their episode they also had a discussion about Busy's suggestion that society "just get rid of pronouns entirely".
Earlier in the episode, Busy shared an emotional story when Birdie told her: "I feel like I'm alive but I'm not really living, you know? And I just want the living part to start."
The proud mum said: "And I got really emotional, because I said: 'Well, first off, welcome to being my daughter. But I wanna say this to you, because I wish somebody would have said this to me. Like, this is living'.
She also advised Birdie that "you get to build your life however the f*** you want to, and it doesn't have to look like anything you've ever seen or anything that's ever been modelled for you, because maybe it doesn't exist, and you get to choose what will make you feel fulfilled and happy."
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