Paul Stanley, lead singer and co-founder of KISS, spoke out against gender reassignment treatments for children Sunday on social media.
The 71-year-old “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” singer titled his lengthy letter “My Thoughts On What I’m Seeing” and claimed: “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.”
He continued, “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,” Stanley concluded.
The Post has contacted reps for Stanley and KISS for comment.
Stanley’s remarks come as red states, including Montana and Florida, recently passed anti-trans bills for youth.
These bans can prohibit healthcare providers from gender transition procedures for minors, which include gender-reassignment surgeries, hormone therapy and puberty blockers.
Earlier this year, Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, the highest-ranking transgender official in US history, proudly announced that “gender-affirming” treatment of trans kids is supported “at the highest levels” of President Biden’s administration.
In January 2021, Stanley tweeted to fans, assuring them that it wasn’t his “intention” to make them feel a certain way about sharing his political views.
The face-paint-wearing rock star had been a vocal opponent of former president Donald Trump.
“If You Are A Fan Who Now Feels My Opinions Are Alienating You, that is sadly your choice & not my intention,” Stanley wrote.
“Do the entertainers you enjoy have to share your beliefs? Would you like it more if you didn’t know? In many cases, you’d be fooling yourself. I won’t do that to you or me.”
KISS is currently on their farewell “End of the Road” tour. The band will play its last-ever shows in their home of New York City at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 1 and Dec. 2.