Sharna Burgess’ Rare Photo of Brian Austin Green’s 5 Sons Sparks Backlash for an Infuriating Reason

Online bullies never take a break from judging parents — or their kids. In Sharna Burgess’ recent Father’s Day post to honor fiancé Brian Austin Green, the haters came out in full force against one of Green’s sons. And the whole thing will make you so angry!

It all started when the Dancing With The Stars pro shared a rare photo of Green with all five of his kids. In her caption, the Australian dancer gushed about the amazing dad Green is. “Anyone who knows you or has witnessed a moment of you with your kids knows that you are, before anything else, an incredible Father,” she said. “It’s a core part of you that drives everything you do. It’s your motivation for your health, your success and your self work.”

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“You are our provider, our protector, our Daddy that can do it all,” she continued. “And more importantly, our Daddy that always shows up and does what he says he will. I knew I loved you pretty quickly, but when I saw the way you love and nurture your kids … I knew I wanted to build a life and a home with you. That you were the kind of father I wanted my children to have. The kind of father and husband I quite literally wrote on paper and asked the Universe for.”

The Beverly Hills, 90210 star stands on the left of the photo dressed in a white t-shirt and jeans. His hands are in his pockets as he turns and smiles at his children. Green’s eldest son Kassius, 21, who he shares with ex Vanessa Marcil, stands next to him in a similar hands-in-pockets pose. Green’s kids Noah, 11, Bodhi, 10, and Journey 7, who he shares with ex-wife Megan Fox, stand in a row in age order. Noah’s arms are crossed and long hair is twirling out; Bodhi’s hands are on top of his head and his tongue is sticking out; and Journey’s pulling his mouth wide with both hands and sticking his tongue out. At the end, someone who looks like Burgess holds her baby Zane, now 23 months, up in the air.

The amazing photo, taken by Jennifer Blakeley, is such a celebration of love … but some people had a major problem with the fact that Noah was wearing a dress.

“Transgender children are popping up left and right. Nobody knows who they are anymore or who they want to be, 😢” someone wrote, as if being transgender was a choice and not a deeply personal decision. Not to mention, Noah wearing a dress shows that he does know himself and his own sense of style, and he isn’t afraid to hide who he really is.

Another person rudely wrote, “I was like he has a girl? Why are all the celebrities kids turning gay? I have no problem with it but is it a trend?” Luckily, this commenter was called out by others. “Just stop, you are all passing judgement on a child,” someone responded. “All children are beautiful, unique and worthy as they are.” Period!

Others weren’t mean but were still a little too invasive. “Beautiful family. When did Noah start wearing dresses? Will they change his/her name. Best of luck with that journey,” one person wrote. Obviously, it’s no one’s business what a child decides to do about their name, gender identity, and clothing choices — especially if it’s not your child.

Green and the Jennifer’s Body star are used to the haters coming for their son, Noah. Back in 2017, Green said in an interview for Hollywood Pipeline’s Straight from the Source, “My son, he’s 4. I’ve heard from some people that they don’t agree with him wearing dresses. To them, I say, ‘I don’t care.’ He’s 4 and if he wants to wear it, then he wears it.”

He explained that he had no qualms about anything his son decided to wear. “[D]resses or goggles or slippers or whatever. It’s his life, they’re not my clothes,” Green added. “I feel like at 4 at 5, that’s a time when he should be having fun. He’s not harming anyone wearing a dress. So if he wants to wear a dress, good on him.”

In 2019, the Transformers star opened up on an episode of The Talk about Noah and how he is “really into fashion.” “Sometimes, he’ll dress himself and he likes to wear dresses, sometimes,” she said. “And I send him to a really liberal, hippy school, but even there — here in California — he still has little boys going, ‘Boys don’t wear dresses,’ or ‘Boys don’t wear pink.’”

“So we’re going through that now, where I’m trying to teach him to be confident no matter what anyone else says,” she continued, adding that someone made fun of him for wearing a dress to school. “And he was like, ‘Well, all the boys laughed when I came in, but I don’t care, I love dresses too much,’” she recalled.

Despite defending their son throughout the years, the hate still hasn’t stopped. When former GOP congressional candidate Robby Starbuck accused Fox of “child abuse” for putting her sons in dresses, Fox strongly defended her family. “Let me teach you something …” she wrote in part. “Regardless 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 children’s gender identity to gain attention in your political campaign has put you on the wrong side of the universe,” she continued. “I have been burned at the stake by insecure, narcissistic, impotent, little men like you many times, and yet I’m still here. You f*cked with the wrong b*tch.”

Maybe one day we can live in a world where people don’t harass children online. Until then, good on Noah’s parents for so fiercely defending — and supporting — their son!

Before you go, check out these celebrity parents who have defended their kids against bullies.

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