KISS’ Paul Stanley criticised for calling children’s gender reassignment surgery “a sad and dangerous fad”

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KISS frontman Paul Stanley has been criticised online for a statement in which he labelled children’s gender reassignment surgery “a sad and dangerous fad”.Today (May 1), Stanley shared a seemingly unprompted statement to his Twitter account titled “my thoughts on what I’m seeing”.In the statement, he said that “normalising” gender reassignment surgery in children has made it “a sad and dangerous fad,” claiming a “big difference” between “teaching acceptance” and advocating for such surgeries.He wrote: “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.

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 play dress 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.”pic.twitter.com/5Gvz6v5HUi— Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) April 30, 2023Among those criticising the statement in the replies and elsewhere online was The Offspring‘s Kevin ‘Noodles’ Wasserman, who wrote: “This is a very disappointing take,.