{"id":73276,"date":"2022-07-04T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T10:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/my-toddler-keeps-going-viral-on-tiktok-as-a-gender-fluid-parent-it-hasn-t-always-been-an-easy-experience"},"modified":"2022-10-09T11:19:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T11:19:10","slug":"my-toddler-keeps-going-viral-on-tiktok-as-a-gender-fluid-parent-it-hasn-t-always-been-an-easy-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/my-toddler-keeps-going-viral-on-tiktok-as-a-gender-fluid-parent-it-hasn-t-always-been-an-easy-experience","title":{"rendered":"My toddler keeps going viral on TikTok. As a gender-fluid parent, it hasn&#8217;t always been an easy experience."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Carter began posting videos with their daughter in February 2021. Charlie Carter Gender-fluid dad Charlie Carter began posting videos with their one-year-old daughter last year. Many of them go viral, and while they receive a lot of support, the response isn&#8217;t always positive. This is Charlie&#8217;s story, as told to Shannon McGuigan. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Charlie Carter, and it has been edited for length and clarity. Although I have been creating content on Instagram since I was 14, I was initially trepidacious to post on TikTok because of its slightly cringy reputation in its beginning stages. But in 2019, I began to post on the platform while working full-time as a debt collector. My videos typically showcased a masculine-to-feminine transformation, allowing me to show off my queer artistry through makeup and fashion. It also created a space for me to explore the fluidity of my gender at a time when I was struggling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Carter has racked up millions of TikTok views by sharing their life with their young daughter as a gender-fluid dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[165,19,231,55,166,163],"class_list":["post-73276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-behind-viral-videos","tag-entertainment","tag-parenting","tag-society","tag-tiktok","tag-tv-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}