Most parents want their children to have a better life than they did. I know I do. That doesn't mean my life and childhood were bad, of course. It simply means that I would like my sons to have opportunities and experiences I — for whatever reason — did not have. Or, conversely, I wanted them not to have to do things I did growing up.
When I was in middle school, I would get up before dawn with my parents to help deliver newspapers. It didn't matter that I had school, or if it was a weekend or a holiday, or if the weather was bitterly cold, blazing warm, or pouring rain. We needed the money, and my parents needed help.
While my eldest has been working for two years now, and things were never perfect, I did spare my children that.
Part of giving your kids a better life means being a parent, and that means saying no and making the tough calls to help prevent your child — who has a brain that won't fully mature until their early 20s — from making irreversible mistakes.
There were times, when my eldest was little, he would wonder out loud if he was a boy or a girl. My answer to him was simple: "You're a boy, and I love you just as you are." He outgrew that phase. But if he'd been born a few years later, or ended up in the wrong classroom, I shudder to think things may have taken a different path.
But for Leftists, having a "trans" kid seems to be the fashionable parental accessory right now, and far too many Leftist parents are eager and willing to sacrifice their child's physical health, mental well-being, and future on this dangerous, politically correct nonsense.
That includes Maryland Governor Wes Moore.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore says he would let his son go through gender mutilation as a minor if he wanted to.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 8, 2026
DAVID: “Would you advise him to wait until he’s 18?”
MOORE: “I’m not going to advise him on something that he feels…” pic.twitter.com/t6slNP8XkB
"First ... it's my son, so I love him regardless," said Moore, "and he's always going to have my undying love."
"If this is a journey that he wants to go down, I want him to always be comfortable in his own skin, and I want him to always know he has a partner in me to help him along that journey," Moore continued.
When asked about waiting until he's 18, Moore replied, "If this is how he is feeling and I feel like I'm closely tied to him, I'm not going to advise him on something that he feels is right ... 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, or castigate him. I'm not going to kick him out of the house. I'm not going to do anything to hurt him."
Letting him transition at 14 is hurting him. If your son says he thinks he's a girl, your job as a parent is to make sure he gets the psychiatric help so he feels comfortable in his own skin as a boy. Because he will always be a boy, and no amount of hormones, surgery, or dressing like a girl changes that fundamental truth.
"Gender-affirming care" doesn't reduce suicidality, but it does create infertility, sexual dysfunction, and may even exacerbate mental health issues and increase suicidality. There have been numerous horror stories of the ill-effects of hormones, puberty blockers, and surgeries — procedures that cannot be undone.
Your job as a parent is to stop your child from going down a path they cannot come back from. You don't take that journey with them.