Paul Stanley of Kiss says some adults confuse teaching acceptance with promoting transgender ideology.

Conservative News DailyMay 2, 2023

KISS Rocker Paul Stanley Shares Thoughts on Transgender Ideology

KISS rocker Paul Stanley recently shared his thoughts on the recent transgender ideology sweeping across the Western world and the United States of America.

Stanley’s Thoughts on Transgender Ideology

Stanley shared his thoughts on Twitter in a post he titled, “My Thoughts On What I’m Seeing.” He began the post writing, “There is a BIG difference between teaching acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a lifestyle that confuses young children into questioning their sexual identification as though some sort of game and then parents in some cases allow it.”

Stanley continued, “There ARE individuals who as adults may decide reassignment is their needed choice but turning this into a game or parents normalizing it as some sort of natural alternative or believing that because a little boy likes to plays up in his sister’s clothes or a girl in her brother’s, we should lead them steps further down a path that’s far from the innocence of what they are doing.”

“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,” he concluded.

Bishop Michael Burbidge’s Thoughts on Transgender Ideology

Stanley’s comments echo Bishop Michael Burbidge’s in his letter A Catechesis on the Human Person and Gender Ideology. He explains, “In this sensitive area of identity, however, there is a great danger of a misguided charity and false compassion. In this regard, we must recall, ‘Only what is true can ultimately be pastoral.’ Christians must always speak and act with both charity and truth. After the example of the Apostle Paul, they are to seek to speak the truth in love.”

Bishop Burbidge further notes, “Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to claims that ‘gender transition’ will resolve their difficulties. Long-term studies show ‘higher rates of mortality, suicidal behavior and psychiatric morbidity in gender-transitioned individuals compared to the general population.’”

“In addition, studies show that children and adolescents diagnosed with gender dysphoria have high rates of comorbid mental health disorders, such as depression or anxiety, are three to four times more likely to be on the autism spectrum, and are more likely to have suffered from adverse childhood events, including unresolved loss or trauma or abuse,” he instructs.

“Psychotherapeutic treatments that incorporate ‘ongoing therapeutic work … to address unresolved trauma and loss, the maintenance of subjective well-being, and the development of the self,’ along with established treatments addressing suicidal ideation are appropriate interventions. Gender transition is not the solution,” Bishop Burbidge asserts.

However, Stanley is still in error as he believes that it would still be appropriate to mutilate individuals if they were adults making this choice. This is still wrong. Bishop Burbidge explains, “The claim to ‘be transgender’ or the desire to seek ‘transition’ rests on a mistaken view of the human person, rejects the body as a gift from God, and leads to grave harm. To affirm someone in an identity at odds with biological sex or to affirm a person’s desired ‘transition’ is to mislead that person.”

“It involves speaking and interacting with that person in an untruthful manner. Although the law of gradualness might prompt us to discern the best time to communicate the fullness of the truth, in no circumstances can we confirm a person in error,” he details.