This father is the epitome of what I strive to be when I become a parent one day. This is an example of TRUE unconditional love and support ❤

Kelly you are amazing for highlighting trans issues and overall supporting LGBTQIA+ community. What an icon you are!

I am from Alabama myself and am so proud to say that this young lady is a part of my state! So brave and strong. Love that her family is so supportive as well. Keep up the awesome work you and your family are doing so others will know they can stand proud as well. ❤

As a parent to a trans son I can't love this enough. He really became himself and his whole spirit lit up after he came out and showed us his true self

That father sets a beautiful example of how every parent with a queer/transgender child should be. Support from home is vital in coming out, finding your place, getting to know yourself and in order to thrive and know that you'll always have your family's back no matter what. Harleigh has a bright future ahead of her! 👏👏

Harleigh is an amazing and confident young woman at only 16. She's going to change the world. I love that her father and mother were so supportive.

Kelly you are awesome for using your platform and risking backlash to uplift these beautiful humans who, like Laverne Cox said, deserve to shine!

I fricken love lavern cox. I happen to have a transgender son but i would adore her no matter what. She was amazing on the series orange is the new black. Thank you kelly for supporting ALL

Thanks to Kelly an the whole KCSNY for this. It is as brave as it is beautiful to use your voice, your plataform to support those oppressed by prejudice. This warms my heart a little and make me so happy for being BLASTING Chemestry nonstop lately. Couldn't be more proud of being a fan. I wish so much love, joy and strenght to this young girl and her family. SUPPORT THE TRANS COMUNITY AND YOUR TRANS FOLKS!!!

Icon behavior: opening your platform to advocate over something so important on our community, means so much, kuddos to Kelly, that was AWESOME 🏳️‍🌈🖤

I noticed a lot of negative comments & I think we all need to just let people be who they are/ who they want to be. I don’t know how someone thinks or feels & neither do you. It’s really not our place or business to weigh in on the lives of people that we don’t even know. Just because it’s not something you understand or that you would do, doesn’t mean it may not be the right thing for someone else. Show more kindness & acceptance rather than judgement.

Father of the year

This had me goosebumped and teared up. What a beautiful family and what a beautiful powerful young lady. ❤❤❤

As a gay man, I never thought that at in my 30s, this conversation would be on TV. We are SO lucky to have this on our screens.

This is the 2nd time this week that I’ve been crying over the stories on your show, Kelly. First was the Crime Junkie story by Ashley Flowers. This is the kind of stories we need to hear and your platform has been genuine & generous enough to give representation to many of the unheard & unseen individuals. If Kelly’s music cover a plethora of genre, Kelly’s show covers the beauty in humanity. My hat is off to everyone on The Kelly Clarkson Show from the host, the production team and staff, the management, and the guests who come to your show. P.S. I’m still crying whilst blowing my nose as I type this. I love you all! ❤️🦋

I suspect we will be seeing a lot of this young lady in the future. I hope you have a long and successful career in politics! Sending lots of love your way!

This makes me cry. Just wonderful.

Wow this is so powerful, thanks Kelly and team.

This has so so much positive in this video. This father is a blessing to his child. I see a young woman who knows who she is, where she is going and is happy on that journey. THAT is all that the God that I pray to wants. Anything else is human ignorance .

This is so beautiful! I'm a trans person from Alabama as well and hate to see what the legislators are doing to the LGBTQIA+ community in this state. But seeing young, passionate folks like Harleigh and her supportive dad gives me hope!

Thank you Kelly for showcasing a beautiful family. And also defying your conservative state with acceptance and love.

What a beautiful young girl god bless her and her father.Forever🙏🙏🏳‍🌈💜❤💝💞💖

Kelly Clarkson freaking rocks!

It’s good that her father is supports her and as an Alabama citizen they really don’t want nothing here or nothing that they consider different they are literally stuck in time here. More people should be more like her dad.

What a great dad he is for loving his daughter unconditionally and accepting for who she is. He is a wonderful example of how all parents should love their trans children and accept them for who they are. Laverne Cox is an absolute legend.

Thank you for using your platform to elevate someone in such a loving and supportive way. As a parent I really appreciate this. More than I could ever really articulate. ❤️❤️❤️

Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️❤ 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️!

"How can people look at this young person and deny their humanity?" Amen. And when we need to hold a parent up as an example simply for loving their child unconditionally, there's something wrong with the rest of us.

That Father knows how to be a Father. Beautiful story.

Jeff's a stand up guy. Laverne and Harleigh are major credits to Alabama.

Thank you Kelly for coming this topic.

Love Kelly more for showcasing this issue!

This was just beautiful, thanks Kelly

Great father 👏

We love laverne cox

Thank you, Kelly, for supporting #PFLAG and the #transgender #LGBTQ community.

Harleigh will end up being a force in politics!

Damnit.. here I am crying over strangers on the internet again..

The important lesson to take away for parents, siblings, friends, classmates, colleagues, neighbours, policy makers etc.: Always let love and kindness guide one in everything one does and decides to do, especially when one is confronted with subjects and issues that one is not familiar with (or even afraid of)......

MAKE SURE YOU VOTE FOR POLITICIANS WHO SUPPORT HAVING ACCESS NATIONWIDE TO TRANSGENDER CARE. PERIOD.

she's quite mature for her age maturity depends on how you were raised family has everything to do with that💌

Only miserable because society makes them that way... Not because they're are.

I wish i was this well spoken at 49. She’s only 16!

I just love Laverne Cox. Great conversation.

Just let your kids be them. Support them. Love on them. Support whatever they’re passionate about even if you don’t agree with it. Because it’s not your life. It’s theirs. You mother/father the inner child that wasn’t mothered/fathered the way you needed to be mothered/fathered when you mother/father them.

This is so beautiful. Thank you for showcasing this .

i cried watching this 🥲

Harleigh is beautiful, fully feminine and as graceful as a swan. Thank you, Kelly Clarkson for doing this show.

Ugh Kelly why do you keep doing things to make me respect you and love you even more 😂

I love you doing this show. Bless you all.

Thank you Kelly for putting the spotlight on Trans kids. We need less bigoty and more maturity, understanding, and love for one another!

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Love & support

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Loving the 1980s Boss Bitch striped blazer that she's wearing!

💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 Just, this is everything 💞💖

Will someone get her a tissue please! She is such a positive iconic role model and so graceful!

Wow I love this my Trans sister this is epic...

This is a month ago. Where`s Hayleigh now?

Hey Kelly, Crew, teen kid, and great Alabama dad. Wow! Interesting. Takes alot of courage to come forth and tell ones story. Its and honor to. This child has along way to go and because of people before laverne and my time. The old timers, and i will be an elder next year. Because of oldtimers and my generation to my 34 year old daughter. Science has come along way. Bless the future of trans babies, rainbow babies. This is a great parent, taking care of their child. Yeah for PFLAG! The thing is this parent said, "All trans people are miserable" it isnt necassary to repeat negativity. In my early 20's, i watched a vhs tape on transgender in the south. This white old woman missing teeth, looking scrappy and miserable. Back then wasnt anything in rurall areas and different times. Especially stsying ignorant. Back then you had to have a parent go with you. This sentence is insenstive remark being repeated. I.lived in a conservative area in the 70's. I csn relate i didnt want to look like that white old woman looking like a man or a hooker. That was it and niptuck tv series. I have so much to say here and many different angles and perspectives.

PLEASE READ It's come to the point that I dread looking through the comments on most trans-related topics/videos today. How we as a society have devolved into hatred and bigotry just the last few years because a sizable chunk of America needed confirmation that there's a community to spread that hatred within is simply baffling. We were supposed to grow with the knowledge we gain meeting each other and bridge the gap between all of our differences with love or at least humanity. THAT's what would make America great again, so why are we more divided than we've ever been? What is so difficult for so many to get past? How can we all look at the same image and see something so vastly different that it would either make us bawl our eyes out while others stand and cheer? That's not freedom or the values we've always held such an allegiance to. That's an exclusive party with a red velvet rope in which the people sipping champagne inside wouldn't be caught dead giving those outside even a sideways glance. Is this really what we want out of our future? If you were at all moved by this clip, please know that these people's futures are truly at risk in the next presidential election. We desperately need those who might not be as strongly affected in such a personal way to understand what's at stake for others. More than one politican has made a promise to enact sweeping laws that will deny transgender people their rights to privacy by forcing them to register their legal identification with their biological sex rather than their identity. Trans children will be affected far worse as they will likely lose the vital medical care for a gender dysphoria diagnosis. We're not advocating the butchery of children - these guidelines and treatments have long been deemed _medically necessary_ by the AMA. Take these away and we will likely have another rash of children that decide this life is too difficult for them to make it to adulthood. Please, I urge you: familiarize yourselves with the situation and make an informed vote in 2024.

I did some reading about SB 184. It's not anti trans it's anti trans for youth. I'm still not sure why simply asking a child to wait till a legal age to make life CHANGING decision is a problem? They can live their life as they wish but just no internal changes until 18. The same age independence can begin. Regarding bathroom usage that should be left up to those students attending each school to decide what they are comfortable with. What's the problem with doing some basic remodeling at school to provide space for trans in bathroom n locker room? Acceptance comes in different forms but acceptance also means compromise from all sides.

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Transgender education needs to be a mandated learning experience for landlords. Most landlords need to be able to understand the complexities and the safe communities that make up the trans community. Landlords are busy, I get that but a vast majority of people live in rental housing in the USA and need to be formally aware of this for the sake of not discriminating against a tenant and or tenant's kid. Just like with any other educational platform, there are some things you can do to be supportive. States that have passed laws that give evictions an easy way out for tenants with no cause to list are some of the most discriminated states against transgender people that I have ever witnessed. It happened to me. It can happen to anyone. Especially in the state of Iowa.

I don’t care what anyone says, but this is clearly a girl. Some people just need to get over themselves, and their irrelevant feelings. On another note. Sure you like Taylor swift, but you’re sitting next to Kelly freakin clarkson!!! The vocal queen, and she doesn’t seem to care. Pains me inside.

I disagree with medical intervention for minor regarding body transformation. However, I understand that the show is all about inclusivity. I hope she won't regret her decision later, because it'll be permanent.

How can you be trans and don’t know what trans is at the time ? Did I miss this story ?

I am disappointed in Kelly.

This is weird

Laverne, I am crying, too. What a shallow representation of the trans experience.

Very few people are denying that boy is human. Seriously. That is not the debate.

Beyond the rules of what the Bible says and how they interpret it, that our Lord Jesus Christ will not take them into account, the only one who knows that is only him and our father Jehovah, because they are also human beings who deserve respect and to be taken into account. Each little head is a world and that is respectable for its sexual condition. IMHO!

Laverne is beautiful and he represents the trans community very well.

How did he jump from liking painted nails to deciding he was a girl? This story missed essential details. Kelly did not ask any useful questions. Wasted opportunity.

So his gender nonconforming son went to a gender clinic and the clinic personnel told the father his gender nonconforming son was actually a girl. The story didn't make sense. The story missed a lot of very important details.

He didnt share his story. He didnt explain his journey at all. He didnt say anything useful to help anyone understand his story. All I learned is that he was a boy who wanted to paint his nails. Such a wasted opportunity. Do better Kelly.

So this minor (likely just an effeminate gay male) has been sterilized and will likely be castrated within the next few years, and we as a society are celebrating it. It's absolutely disgusting, and in 10 years, a lot of people are gonna have a lot to answer for regarding why they promoted this.