TUPELO, Miss. — Resurfaced comments from Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico expose his far-left ideologies, calling parents who refused to acknowledge their children’s gender identity as showing signs of “abusive” behavior. “I think there are some folks that would think that if you deny your child’s gender identity, that’s incredibly harmful. And whether or not we label it with the term abuse, it’s abusive for sure,” Talarico said in 2019 while speaking about HB 1910. This bill was designed to ensure that parents would not be considered guilty of child abuse in cases deciding custody if they refused to affirm their child’s gender identity.
According to Fox News, “Talarico’s resurfaced comments add to a growing pile of past remarks that cut against his efforts to paint himself as a moderate on issues like gender, policing and border security as he attempts to win over Texas, a historically Republican-leaning state.”
“No parent should ever be accused of being abusive for standing on the biological truth of their child’s gender and refusing to bow to dangerous ideologies,” said Walker Wildmon, CEO of AFA Action, the governmental affairs affiliate of the American Family Association. “One’s sex is not a changeable state; it is a biological and scientific truth. No amount of confusion, manipulation or medical procedure changes your God-given biology. To accuse parents of abuse simply for affirming that truth is absurd. The true abuse lies with the adults who force hormones and bodily mutilation surgeries on minors under the guise of ‘gender affirming care.’”