WATCH: Media Celebrate Mother Turning 8-Year-Old Boy Into Drag Queen

Earlier this month, Elle magazine featured a video of an eight-year-old boy (yes, eight!) “transforming” into a drag queen named “Lactatia.”

The video disturbingly shows Nemis Quinn Mélançon Golden being dolled-up in full-on drag makeup, a long, blonde wig, a sparkly red dress, and high heels before he meets a famous drag queen for some pointers; then he proceeds to pose seductively. All the while, mind you, the boy’s mother is gushing about her son’s gender confusion and her role in exacerbating it.

In short, the video is stomach-turning.

“We just want our kids to express themselves however they see fit; as long as it’s respectful and they’re nice people, we don’t care,” says the boy’s mother, Jessica.

Jessica says she started putting drag makeup on Nemis when he was just two, after her son handed her earrings he took off of a Mr. Potato Head toy.

“When he was about two, he came to me with Mr. Potato Head earrings and asked me to put makeup on him, so we did a little drag photo shoot and he duck-faced, and it was really sweet,” she explains, giving off a laugh. “And, yeah, anytime he wanted makeup, I put some on him.”

Nemis began dabbling in full-on drag at just seven years of age when his mother says they started watching VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race together.

Here’s Elle’s celebratory caption accompanying the video of Nemis:

“I think I’ve had Lactatia inside of me since I was born, and that’s why I love that song ‘Born This Way’.” Eight-year-old Nemis likes dancing, loves dressing up, and won’t let anyone stop him from doing what makes him feel accepted: transforming into drag queen Lactatia. Watch his story —with a surprise guest who thinks Lactatia is going to grow up to be “a weapon of mass devastation.”

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And Elle wasn’t alone.

The Advocate, an LGBT site, hailed young Nemis as the new hot thing in drag and applauded the boy’s “supportive parents.” In a featured video, Nemis said kids who want to dress in drag but are prohibited by their parents “need new parents.”

“Anyone can do what they want in life,” said the boy. “It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. If you want to be a drag queen and your parents don’t let you, you need new parents. If you want to be a drag queen and your friends don’t let you, you need new friends.”

Additionally, the young boy was previously invited to the Werq the World drag tour in Montreal, where he joined famous drag queen Bianca del Rio.