WASHINGTON (TND) — Lead singer and co-founder of the legendary rock band KISS, Paul Stanley, released a short letter on social media over the weekend featuring choice words for those who support transgender procedures for minors.
Stanley called out those “normalizing and even encouraging” young children to participate “in a lifestyle” which Stanley insisted “confuses young children into questioning their sexual identification as though [sic] some sort of game.”
With many children who have no real sense of sexuality or sexual experiences caught up in the ‘fun’ of using pronouns and saying what they identify as, some adults mistakenly confuse teaching acceptance with normalizing and encouraging a situation that has been a struggle for those truly affected and have turned it into a sad and dangerous fad,” Stanley said in his letter shared on social media.
There ARE individuals who as adults may decide reassignment is their needed choice,” Stanley continued. However, he argued, “turning this into a game or parents normalizing it as some sort of natural alternative or believing that because a little boy likes to play dress up in his sister’s clothes or a girl in her brother’s” is wrong.
The issue of transgender procedures for minors has been a major point of contention between Republicans and Democrats, particularly as GOP-led states push back against the controversial practice.
While Republicans insist minors are too young to make informed decisions about these often irreversible treatments, Democrats insist not allowing them to do so deprives LGBTQ youth of ” life-saving, medically necessary” medical treatments.