This week's cover story of Life & Style magazine reads: "Why is Angelina Turning Shiloh into a Boy?"

Angelina being, of course, Angelina Jolie and Shiloh, naturally, being her three year old daughter with that Brad fellow. Last week, from what I can surmise, Shiloh got a haircut and a new wardrobe and it's not the princess get-ups we're used to seeing on other celebrity babies. Life & Style turned the whole thing into a piece of overtly sexist, totally transphobic and completely harmful piece of drivel.

Let the tranny jokes begin: "Why do they want her to look like Chaz Bono?" quipped a commenter.  Alana Kelen, senior stylist at VH1, offered this gem of a quote: "Shiloh is pushing the boundaries of a tomboy look and crossing over to cross-dresser territory." Celebrity stylist Gili Rashal-Niv hopes that "we won't be seeing Maddox in one of Shiloh's dresses anytime soon."

But the idiotic "expert" quotes don't end there. In dissecting the psychology of little Shiloh, Life & Style turns to "parenting expert" Glenn Stanton, director of Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family. He says, "it's important to teach our children that gender distinction is very healthy." Stanton, who's psychiatric credentials are not listed in any of his on-line bios, believes that it's the parents duty to give "guidance of what [gender] looks like." And if the parent can't do it, a little reparative therapy should do the trick. 

The article also quotes psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert, who I can only surmise hasn't spoken with anyone from the Jolie-Pitt clan in making his assessment. But he's worried for little Shiloh. "She might be made fun of and wouldn't fit in." Might be made fun of? Like on the cover of Life & Style magazine? If you people are so worried about the psychological well being of a three year old, maybe you should consider another cover article.

The article does attempt a balanced journalistic approach, giving parenting coach Karen Deerwester nine whole lines of rebuttal space. She says, "Giving preschool-age children the freedom and flexibility to experiment with how they want to be seen in the world is a wonderful gift."

Life & Style should be ashamed -- not only of the subject matter, but of the content and the source material. Focus on the Family is not just a "conservative organization" but a monolith of anti-LGBT rhetoric, incapable of coherent, socially responsible ideas. Glenn Stanton is an expert on maintaining gender status quo, and he should be labeled as such. And why are celebrity stylists weighing in on the emotional stability of a three year old? These people are responsible for the overly thin, overly tanned, overly plasticized version of feminine now so heralded in the mainstream. We are all better off ignoring them completely.

When publications like this use fake experts and hurtful commentary to speak about a topic as sensitive as gender identity, without any regard for the truth or any sensitivity of the subject matter, they pose a real threat to those who are actually struggling with gender identity issues. Considering the high suicide rate among LGBT youth, articles that do nothing but harass and poke fun should not be tolerated.