Emmy-winning actress Drea de Matteo claimed Joe Biden and his administration “pretend” to care about transgender children.

The Sopranos star appeared on Newsmax’s National Report on Thursday as a self-proclaimed libertarian to share her own stance on transgender people, which she shrugged off as “to each their own.”

“But when it comes to little kids, I also just I have a hard time with trying to change anybody,” de Matteo said. “I also don’t really believe that this administration really cares about these kids the way they pretend they do. I think that there have been so many pawns in this admin — they’ve been using so many social issues as pawns to just, just tear us apart.”

The actress claimed that despite her past as a “classic liberal,” she has seen the Democratic Party get “hijacked” by these social issues. Instead of neighbors, friends, and family deciding on what’s socially acceptable, the government, where the Democratic Party currently holds the majority, is issuing mandates of its own.

“I don’t think we need a government to tell us we’re OK if we have different sexual preferences. I think we need our neighbors, and our friends, and our family to be OK. But when it’s all government-regulated stuff, it just starts to feel like intense overreach,” de Matteo said. “I feel more aligned right now with a lot of conservative values — maybe not socially — but I don’t think the social issues are the issue right now.”

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Biden added a new regulation to Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, the section that details the prohibition on discrimination on the basis of a protected class in providing health services, which now include gender-transition surgeries. Should a doctor or hospital refuse the service, they could lose federal funding via Medicare and Medicaid.

This came after the president altered Title IX rules, a set of regulations meant to protect against discrimination on the basis of sex, to also include protections for transgender identities.