Charlize Theron confirms daughter Jackson is transgender

Charlize Theron is the mother of two children, Jackson - who was adopted in 2012 - and August - who was adopted in 2015.

Although her 7-year-old child Jackson was assigned male at birth, Theron has recently confirmed to the Daily Mail that she actually identifies as a female.

"Yes, I thought she was a boy, too," Theron told The Daily Mail, "Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said: 'I am not a boy!'"

"So there you go! I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive," the "Long Shot" star shared. "They were born who they are and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide."

【ギャラリー】Charlize Theron with Jackson17

"My job as a parent is to celebrate them and to love them and to make sure that they have everything they need in order to be what they want to be," she continued. "And I will do everything in my power for my kids to have that right and to be protected within that."

"You know, I grew up in [South Africa] where people lived with half-truths and lies and whispers and nobody said anything outright, and I was raised very specifically not to be like that," Theron explained. "I was taught by my mom that you have to speak up; you have to be able to know that, when this life is over, you'll have lived the truth you're comfortable with, and that nothing negative can come from that."

Jackson's gender has been questioned publicly in the past, after multiple outings showed Charlize and Jackson dressed in feminine clothings, wearing tutus and dresses.

Last year, the Oscar-winning actress appeared on "The Ellen Show" where she got candid about the struggle of raising her kids.

"I'm a single mom, and I have an incredible village that helps me raise these two beautiful kids," she said. "In the morning I have them alone and they kind of work against each other sometimes. One kind of decides to freak out and then both decide to freak out. I don't know why they do that. You think they'd stand there and be considerate like, 'Well, that one is freaking out right now, I'm not gonna freak out. I'm going to be nice and I'm just going to chill out and have my mom deal with that.' But they don't do that."