Posted on 07/31/2019 12:08:24 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
The TV host came under fire for suggesting parents should wait until a child's "formative years" before making declarations about their gender
Mario Lopez is facing backlash over comments he made in a recent interview that suggested it was “dangerous” for parents of children as young as 3 years old to definitively label their kids transgender...
...In a statement to PEOPLE on Wednesday, Lopez apologized for his remarks.
“The comments I made were ignorant and insensitive, and I now have a deeper understanding of how hurtful they were,” he said. “I have been and always will be an ardent supporter of the LGBTQ community, and I am going to use this opportunity to better educate myself. Moving forward I will be more informed and thoughtful.” The incoming Access Hollywood co-host appeared on The Candace Owens Show in June, where the conservative commentator brought up “this new trend where celebrities are coming out … and saying that their child is picking their gender.”
In response, Lopez told Owens he, too, was struggling to understand the mentality, and was “kind of blown away.”
“Look, I’m never one to tell anyone how to parent their kids, obviously, and I think if you come from a place of love, you really can’t go wrong,” he said. “But at the same time, my God, 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 that determination then — ‘Okay, well 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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Folded like a lawn chair.
Scary.
Totalitarianism is frightening.
Well that was fast. I wish just once people in this position would tell the “community” to pound sand. He didn’t say anything that needs to be apologized for.
Don’t you love it when people apologize to leftists after they state facts? Another wet noodle folds
I was just saying yesterday that Mario Lopez was an example of courage in a nation of cowards.
Looks like he is just another coward.
Sad.
I’m not surprised that he walked it back so quickly.
Mario has been a well liked media man for decades.
He’s not used to being that controversial.
He was not prepared to lose endorsements and high paying emcee gigs just yet. I’m still glad he brought the topic up.
This reminds Hollywood that all this gender switching stuff is not mainstream as they wish to demand it be treated.
It will never be mainstreamed, as it’s too pretentious.
Never,NEVER, apologize. If you do you have automatically lost.
Telling the truth is a revolutionary act that must be destroyed.
He pointed out the obvious and now claims to be ‘ignorant.’
Please ask about this at the Democratic debate tonight. Please.
Oh mario. Guess the spinectomy was a success.
Apparently he had no career back-up plan.
And the LGBTQ Mafia can most definitely bring your showbiz career to a screeching halt.
I read S China Morn Post daily. The mainlanders laugh at the soft Americans being destroyed by their own doing.
3 year olds don’t even share their toys well
The immediate self criticism is scary.
His entire career would be gone in an instant.
Its a mystery why he apologized.......$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$......
I knew he would fold..speaking the truth in hollyweird is punishable by death he had to save his own ass
When will you be expecting, Miss “Transgender”?
Never.
Can we count on you being a sperm donor, Mr. “Transgender”?
I don’t think so.
“He loved Big Brother.”
What a pusi
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