A Life Ruined by "Trans": The Story of Charice

We can yammer all day long about the materiality reality of sex and the fallaciousness of the preposterous “trans” agenda, but the truly disastrous effects of this lie are most clearly seen in the life stories of individuals directly impacted by these policies.

Examining those effects is the best way to understand the damage this cultish fraud causes to those who fall victim to it, and previous posts here on women like Hannah Berg-Brousseau and Mackenzie McClelland demonstrate this truth.

One of the most heart-breaking examples of this phenomenon is the life of Charice Pempengco, a talented singer once poised for global stardom due to her amazing voice. Today she calls herself “Jake Zyrus.”

Here’s how that happened.

Born in the Philippines in 1992, she survived a childhood marked by instability and poverty during which she began singing to earn money to support her mother and brother.

She appeared on Filipino talent shows and gained wider notice as her beautiful voice impressed audiences while her performances reached millions of views on YouTube, leading her to American programs like The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2007.

Some readers may remember her from her 2008 appearance, when she was only 16, on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the most popular talk show in the world at the time. With her mother and the whole world watching, she performed “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion with influential music producer David Foster accompanying her on the piano, and Celine surprised her after her performance.

She appeared with Celine at Madison Square Garden to sing “Because You Loved Me,” and she held her own against one of the world’s most famous singers in front of 20,000 people.

A star was born.

David Foster has guided the careers of Whitney Houston, Natalie Cole, Toni Braxton, Josh Groban, and Michael Bublé, in addition to Celine Dion. He isn’t a man who would waste his time on people he didn’t think were meant for stardom.

That’s what led her to Glee in 2010, when it was arguably the world’s most popular television series, while she also sang at inaugural events for President Obama and performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” at baseball games with 57,000 attendees.

She embarked on tours and released her debut international studio album Charice in 2010, and it entered the Billboard 200 at number eight. It was the first album by an Asian solo singer ever to land in the top 10.

It is not an exaggeration to say that she was going to be just as great as, or even better than, Whitney Houston or Celine Dion or Mariah Carey. She could have reached their level of success because she had the talent and the undefinable “it factor,” along with opportunities provided by people who truly believed in her. Even Whitney Houston once claimed Charice performed Whitney’s songs better than Whitney did.

But then a catastrophe hit like the unluckiest lightning strike imaginable. It wholly derailed her life and career.

In October 2011, her estranged 43-year-old father Ricky Pempengco was stabbed to death by a belligerent man after getting into a drunken street fight in the Philippines.

She was estranged from Ricky because when Charice was three years old she witnessed her father beat and choke her mother. He also pointed a gun at Charice, her mother, and her brother, and he nearly killed them before neighbors heard the chaos and broke through the front door to stop him, saving their lives.

Following that nightmare, her mother left her father and raised her two children as a single mother in grinding poverty, causing Charice to seek an income by singing.

After her father’s death, Charice cancelled concerts in Singapore and returned to the Philippines for his funeral.

Even though she hadn’t seen or spoken to him in many years, and even though he nearly killed her, she was devastated by his death as she stated that she still loved him.

That was the beginning of the end for her, and she has not ever recovered.

By 2012, she began to change her hair and clothes because she was “evolving” in her identity.

Reader, guess what? None of this worked for her, and things got worse…much worse.