Mario Lopez Apologizes for ‘Ignorant and Insensitive” Transgender Comments After Being Called Out by Karamo Brown

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Mario Lopez Tapes "Extra"
Mario Lopez Tapes "Extra" at The Levi's Store Times Square on May 17, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

Mario Lopez apologized Wednesday (via his rep) for telling conservative commentator Candace Owens that itโ€™s โ€œdangerousโ€ and โ€œalarmingโ€ for parents to honor the wishes of young children who identify with a gender other than the one assigned at birth.

Lopez originally made the comments in a June interview on The Candance Owen Show, but the clips resurfaced and received backlash on Twitter.

During the interview, Owens and Lopez discussed what Owens called the โ€œweird trendโ€ of celebrities allowing their young children to choose how they identify. Charlize Theron was mentioned in the interview, as the actress revealed in April that her 7-year-old son Jackson did not identify as a boy.

Owens said she didnโ€™t understand the โ€œnew Hollywood mentalityโ€ where celebrities โ€œthink their children now have the mental authority.โ€

Lopez agreed with Owens, saying โ€œI am trying to understand it myself.โ€

โ€œLook, Iโ€™m never one to tell anyone how to parent their kids obviously and I think if you come from a place of love, you really canโ€™t go wrong but at the same time, my God, if youโ€™re 3 years old and youโ€™re saying youโ€™re feeling a certain way or you think youโ€™re a boy or a girl or whatever the case may be, I just think itโ€™s dangerous as a parent to make this determination then, well, OK, then youโ€™re going to a boy or a girl, whatever the case may be. Itโ€™s sort of alarming and my gosh, I just think about the repercussions later on,โ€ Lopez said.

Queer Eye star Karamo Brown was among those who took issue with Lopezโ€™s statement:

https://twitter.com/Karamo/status/1156435579095146498