Mario Lopez is being criticized for claiming that it is “dangerous” for parents to support children who identify as transgender.
The 45-year-old television personality made his comments in June during an appearance on The Candace Owens Show, a video serious on the PragerU YouTube channel, but they sparked blowback on social media this week.
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During the interview, Owens brought up the “weird” Hollywood trend of stars like Charlize Theron saying their children are “picking their gender.”
Owens, who said she had worked as a nanny in the past, insisted children don’t always mean what they say – and don’t have the “mental authority” to process their own gender identity.
“I’m kind of blown away too,” said Lopez. “…If you’re 3 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 then, well, okay, then you’re going to be a boy or a girl, whatever the case may be… It’s sort of alarming and my gosh, I just think about the repercussions later on.”
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