Interviewer Asks If He Would Let Son Mutilate Genitals Before 18
Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and host Patrick Bet-David squared off Tuesday over “gender transitions” for minors on the PBD Podcast.
“Your son comes in saying he wants to transition, what do you do?” asked Bet-David. Moore has two sons, aged 12 and 14.
Moore clarified that his son would always have his “undying love,” then said, “I want to make sure that I am involved in understanding where he is, how he’s feeling, the way he’s feeling, why he thinks it’s important. If this is a journey that he wants to go down, um, I want him to always be comfortable in his own skin, and I want him to always know that he has a partner in me to help him along that journey.”
If one wants his son to be “comfortable in his own skin,” helping him down a road of permanent mutilation and dysfunction seems ill-advised.
“Would you advise him to wait ’til he was 18?” questioned Bet-David.
“If this is how he is feeling and I feel like I am, I am closely tied to him, I’m not going to advise him on something that he feels is right.”
“At 14 years old, Wes?”
“No, I understand it, but what I’m saying is, the most important thing for me is, I want him to feel safe in his own skin, safe in his own decision making, but also know that, at 14 years old, I want to be involved inside of that process as well. I’m not going to condemn him nor castigate him, I’m not going to kick him out of the house, I’m not going to do anything that’s going to hurt him, but I just want to make sure that I’m involved,” Moore said.
Moore’s priorities are gravely disordered. Which matters more: letting one’s child do exactly what they want or ensuring that one’s child does not make a grave and irreversible error?
Imagine if the mother of an anorexic teenager congratulated her daughter for losing another ten pounds.
“I’m not going to advise her on something that she feels is right,” the hypothetical mother says to critics.
Moore attributes great significance to the feelings of his son. I would not argue that an adolescent’s feelings are irrelevant, only that they are often a poor basis for decision-making. The father is — in an ideal world — possessed of greater wisdom than his son.
Anyone who would act as such a poor steward of his children — or who adopts a willfully ignorant stance to toe the party line — has no business governing a state. Democrats have proven their unfitness over and over again.
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