Mario Lopez ‘alarmed’ by Hollywood parents who allow young children to gender-transition

Mario Lopez “struggles to understand” Hollywood parents who allow their children to transition genders at very young ages.
Lopez appeared on American conservative commentator Candace Owens YouTube show last month (Jun19), and in a discussion about Hollywood parenting, Owens was critical of actress Charlize Theron’s decision to allow her seven-year-old Jackson who was born a boy, to identify as a girl.
In April the Atomic Blonde star told DailyMail.com in an interview that Jackson insisted at the age of three, that she was “not a boy” and that “who they want to be, is not for me to decide.”
“I am trying to understand this new Hollywood mentality where they just think their children now have the mental authority,” Owens began the conversation, to which the Extra host responded, “I am trying to understand it myself and please don’t lump me into that whole (group).”
Lopez, who is best known for playing A.C. Slater on TV show Saved by the Bell, has two children with wife Courtney, daughter Gia, eight, and son Dominic, five, added he was “kind of blown away too”.
“My God if you’re three-years-old and you’re saying you’re feeling a certain way you think you’re a boy or a girl whatever the case may be… I just think it’s dangerous as a parent to make that determination then, ok well then you’re gonna be a boy or a girl.”
“It’s sort of alarming and my gosh, I just think about the repercussions later on,” he continued. “I think parents need to allow their kids to be kids, but at the same time, you got to be the adult in the situation.”
While the 45-year-old insisted he wouldn’t want to tell someone else how to parent, Lopez said three years old is “way too young to start making these (decisions).”
“I think the formative years is really when you have those discussions and really start making these declarations,” said the presenter, whose children attend a Catholic school.
And while he admitted he doesn’t always agree with everyone’s parenting styles, he insisted he knows “they’re good people and it’s coming from a good place.”
However, when Owens asked him about playdates with children from households where they can pick their gender, he answered: “They don’t kick it with those kids.”