Actor Mario Lopez CANCELED by PC police for saying
3-year-olds can’t decide their own gender
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Mario Lopez is feeling the wrath of the outrage brigade after suggesting that kids as young as three years-old shouldn’t be deciding their own gender. He was instantly pronounced “dead” by those for whom PC culture is a religion.
Lopez made the comments on conservative YouTube host Candace Owens’ show back in June, but it took the usually hyper-vigilant PC police more than a month to notice them. Well, now that they have, it looks like no bell can save Lopez, with social media lit up with criticism of his “transphobia,” for which he was summarily “canceled” in the eyes of many liberal tweeters. The entertainer was forced to apologize on Wednesday, telling NBC his comments were “ignorant and insensitive.”
What a shame. His comments were sensitive and true. His critics are ignorant and insensitive to the well-being, indeed, even the lives of children.
Cameron Nielson
@CameronNielson7
Mario Lopez: maybe don’t let 3 year olds “decide” their gender
Twitter: he’s cancelled, he hates the LGBT community, he eats babies and drowns puppies for a living
What did Lopez actually say to cause such outrage?
The actor and host said he was “trying to understand” why some parents support their extremely young children’s pronouncements that they are a different gender and that he was “blown away” by adults letting kids as young as three years-old declare themselves a different sex.
Lopez did not launch into a hate-filled tirade against transgender individuals, but simply said toddlers might be too young to understand the full implication of what they are saying. The actor prefaced the comment by saying he didn’t want to “tell anyone how to parent their kids” but said in his opinion it was just far too early to make such a big decision.
At 3, children don't even understand the difference between fantasy and reality. It appears many adults have the same problem.
My God, if you're three years old and you’re saying you’re
feeling a certain way or you think you’re a boy or a girl or
whatever the case may be, I just think it’s dangerous as a
parent to make this determination.
Owens, who regularly stokes controversy in the media for a variety of other reasons, agreed, arguing that sometimes three-year-olds believe they are mermaids or princesses and that oftentimes they will be going through a phase that they grow out of. Yet, some modern parents take this as their cue to whisk the child off to a doctor for hormone injections and surgical intervention.
Studies report 60-95% of gender-confused children normalize after puberty. Treating children before puberty with puberty blockers may prevent that normalization from happening.
The only arguably controversial thing Lopez did in the interview was to briefly equate a child’s announcement about its gender as something to do with its “sexuality” – which isn’t the same thing, since a person who identifies as transgender isn’t necessarily confused about their sexuality.
So a person can look down at their male appendages, decide they are a female, and there is no confusion?
There was even a call for Warner Bros. which distributes the Extra entertainment show co-hosted by Lopez to “hold him accountable” for his “gross” actions.
igorvolsky✔
@igorvolsky
Gross. Gross. Gross. Gross. Gross. Gross. Gross. Gross. Gross. Gross. Gross. Gross.
Now let's hold him accountable. @warnerbros distributes Mario Lopez' @extratv.
Does @warnerbros stand by Mario's transphobia and his comments about survivors of sexual assault? https://twitter.com/itsalexberg/status/1156512537292222464 …
Alex Berg✔
@itsalexberg
Mario Lopez said it’s “dangerous” for 1. parents to support their trans kids and 2. to believe women who come forward with accusations of sexual misconduct. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mario-lopez-candace-owens-parents-transgender-kids-dangerous-200050915.html …
It was a double whammy of condemnation for Lopez, however, because he also criticized the #MeToo era and the #BelieveWomen movement. He said it was “dangerous” to believe every accuser, no questions asked, because it is possible that on occasion a woman might conceivably lie about assault or sexual misconduct – another apparently indefensible position which earned Lopez the title of “misogynist” to go with “transphobe.”
As for Lopez’s comments on transgender kids, they are actually backed up by doctors on both sides of the Atlantic, who recently warned about the potential negative consequences of pumping kids full of hormones and early gender re-assignment surgeries instead of adopting a wait-and-see approach, in case the child changes its mind (which studies have shown is often the case.) In fact, usually the case!
One whistleblower, a National Health Service (NHS) psychologist who’d previously worked at Britain’s only child gender clinic, warned that doctors were worried about being labeled “transphobic” if they looked too deeply into each case to find possible psychological reasons, including past abuse, which might explain a child’s feelings.
For instance, a girl might see that her brother is treated better than she, so she may decide to be a boy. This has happened!
If medical experts and whistleblowers are branded transphobic for urging caution around the issue of trans-identified kids, then an actor like Lopez has no hope.
Danielle Ryan is an Irish freelance writer based in Dublin.
Danielle, unfortunately, did not mention the extraordinary rate of attempted suicide among transgenders. Studies report 35->40%, as opposed to <2% in general society. Recent numbers from the UK where an astonishing number of young girls are wanting to trans, show that of those girls who do trans to boys, the attempted suicide rate is more than 50%.
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