Megan Fox slams claim that she ‘forces’ her sons to wear ‘girls’ clothes’

When it comes to people bullying or criticizing her kids, Meghan Fox spares no one her wrath—and rightfully so. Over the weekend, the actress publicly called out a former Congressional candidate after he ranted about her sons and their clothing choices on Twitter.

Robby Starbuck, who ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 5 last summer and lost, claims he used to live in the same neighborhood as Fox and her three children (she shares Noah, 10, Bodhi, 9, and Journey, 6 with ex-husband Brian Austin Green). Starbuck tweeted that he used to hear them have a “full on breakdown” over their mom “forcing them” to wear “girls clothes.” He then elevated his claim by calling it “child abuse.”

Fox caught wind of the tweet and took to her Instagram account to fire back at Starbuck and his pretty serious claims.

“I really don’t want to give you this attention because clearly youre a clout chaser,” Fox captioned her screenshot photo of his tweet. “but let me teach you something…irregardless of how desperate you may become at any given time to acquire wealth, power, success, or fame—never use children as leverage or social currency, especially under malevolent and erroneous pretense.”

“Exploiting my child’s gender identity to gain attention in your political campaign has put you on the wrong side of the universe,” she continued.

Fox has been open about Noah’s desire to wear dresses to express himself since he was a toddler, and the bullying he’s endured because of it. She’s always made it clear that she teaches her kids about gender identity and how to be confident in themselves and who they are. [Editor’s note: We are using both gender-neutral and masculine pronouns in this story, similar to how Fox has talked about Noah in past interviews.]

“Noah started wearing dresses when he was about two, and I bought a bunch of books that sort of addressed these things and addressed a full spectrum of what this is,” Fox explained in an interview with Glamour UK in 2022. “Some of the books are written by transgender children. Some of the books are just about how you can be a boy and wear a dress; you can express yourself through your clothing however you want. And that doesn’t even have to have anything to do with your sexuality.”

She’s also said the reason why she doesn’t share her children on social media is because she doesn’t want to make them vulnerable to trolls and online criticism.

“I knew when they were very young, I wanted to try to protect them however I could and a lot of that had to do with limiting their exposure to the internet,” she said in 2022. “So far, we’ve done a really good job and we maintain their innocence in a lot of ways, but I know I can’t protect them forever, though I do have a child that suffers.”

Brian Austin Green also clapped back at Starbuck’s tweet in a statement to TMZ:

“There are only a few people in their world that can actually verify whether [sic] or not a story like this is true and I can tell you with absolute certainty it is not,” he said. “This person trying to claim this is true is a perfect example of someone with selfish motives that do not care about negatively affecting a parent-child relationship.”

It’s incredibly unfortunate that people choose to publicly bash children online, especially people with a large online presence who attack children of celebrities—these kids didn’t ask to be in the spotlight, and they should be left entirely alone by everyone.

“I have been burned at the stake by insecure narcissistic impotent little men like you many times and yet i’m still here,” Fox concluded on Instagram. “You f***** with the wrong witch.”