Invoice Maher Says Gender Reassignment with Youngsters Has Gone Too Far

Bill Maher ventures into dicey areas on a regular basis, and he didn’t disappoint Friday night time when he argued … gender reassignment with children has gone too far.

The “Actual Time” host started his weekly editorial with some fascinating stats … earlier than 1946, solely .08% of the inhabitants recognized as LGBTQ. That quantity shot as much as 2.6% amongst Child Boomers. It shot up once more to 4.2% with Gen X, 10.5% amongst Millennials and 20.8% with Gen Z.

Maher says a lot of the rise in percentages is an effective factor … that folks really feel comfy sufficient to say who they’re to a pollster, however his take is that a number of the rise is attributed to trendiness … i.e., it is now fashionable to be LGBTQ.

Invoice’s argument is laced with humor, however at its core, he is saying particularly on the subject of children, their emotions usually are not all the time innate … he says they usually react to tendencies, to associates, to social media and fogeys mustn’t reflexively take their kids down a path of gender reassignment till the kid’s self-identity is definite. He zeroes in on hormone blockers on younger children, the results of which he thinks have been glossed over.