Pushing adult pathologies onto children is only ever harmful, and projects attitudes and behaviors which children are incapable of understanding. A mother and father are the first examples to their children of what it means to be a female or male adult. Promoting the idea that transgenderism is healthy does nothing but pollute a child’s thinking. A recent example shows this to be true.

In March, a video of a mother, Shalee, explaining to her six-year old daughter, Layla, that her father had decided to “become a girl” went viral.

Just after hearing the news, young Layla exclaims: ‘Daddy’s a she now?’ When Shalee asks her daughter how she feels about the news Layla answers ‘good’ before adding ‘I want to be like a boy, do you? Shalee says: ‘Well I actually really feel happy as a girl and I’m gonna stay like a girl but daddy doesn’t feel happy like a boy so we have decided to help daddy become the person that his brain and his heart tell him he really is.

I have nothing but sympathy for those struggling with transgenderism. Any individual who heads down that path of rejecting their God-given gender, based on their internal struggles, should only be treated with kindness. Hate is never the answer in how we treat anyone. But I cannot, and will not, chant their mantra, especially as their side gets louder and accuses mine of discrimination. Cosmetic and surgical additions or subtractions do not a male or female make, and we fool ourselves if we think otherwise.

The slippery slope to accepting everything begins by refusing to acknowledge that DNA is stubborn, and that who you were created to be is a not a mistake. If we never question transgenderism, though it battles against inherent norms, then we’ll begin put a stamp of approval on everything. As recently reported by The Independent, a criminal psychologist announced online that pedophilia is a sexual orientation, like being gay or straight. While I’m not asserting that trans individuals are in any way child molesters, I do believe that promoting a delusional view of gender, and making rationalizations along the way, has led us to this point to where we must accept and never question anything.

In March, the mayor of San Francisco banned city employees from traveling to North Carolina due to the new bathroom bill. Yesterday, aging rocker Bruce Springsteen cancelled his Greensboro, North Carolina concert for the same reason. These outbursts, labeled as support, do nothing to help individuals struggling with transgenderism.

The trans movement is not the new civil rights movement. Nowhere are men or women denied the right to use the bathroom which corresponds with their inherent characteristics. If anything in this country is similar to discrimination based on biological fact, it is abortion. Look for the trans community to increase their protests based on nothing, and get ready to be labeled as “hateful” if you disagree. It’s only going to get worse.