translated from Spanish: Ivan Flores’ controversial statement on children adopted by same-sex couples: “They can become homosexual”

The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Iván Flores (DC) swooped against equal marriage and homoparental adoption, going so far as to claim that the upbringing by same-sex couples could it would turn children into gays or lesbians, which was instantly rejected by the Gay Integration and Liberation Movement (Movilh).
In an interview with Freddy Stock on the Via X Channel, the MP argued that “the effect of the environment on the person, certainly a guiding effect. When you have a family with mom and dad, the effect of guiding is different from when you’re the single mom, when the woman is the head of home and fights life alone. Sometimes you need the figure of the father or vice versa, which is the least frequent.”
With regard to same-sex couples, he added that “in the case of the adoption of children, especially very young children, I believe that it is indeed influenced by this normality. I’m not saying the results are good or bad, I mean influence, the possibility that that child can choose. It could have an influence that marks them (as homosexuals) for the rest of their lives and that decision he may have made later on regarding their sexuality can be influenced.”
For the Movilh spokesman, Oscar Rementería, “it is unpresentable that a high authority of the country speaks without informing itself, without updating. The World Health Organization and the American Pediatric Sandal Association have been emphatically to indicate that sexual orientations are not influenced and that parenting by heterosexual couples is no different from those of homosexuals.”
“Along with promoting ignorance, Flores damages the dignity of children raised by same-sex couples, while making them appear sexually influencing their parents, encouraging bullying, denoting family diversity and damaging self-esteem. The PARLIAMENTmp should apologize,” Rementería said.
He added that these “homophobic” sayings intersect with machismo, while putting single mothers in a second category in relation to those with partners of different sexes”
The parliamentarian also erroneously ruled on transsexuality, linking them to “undefined issues.” “Let’s abstract the trans, the trans is a super special condition that has to have special treatment because there are biological issues that are not entirely defined,” he said in the same interview.
He retorted that it is “shameful as the speaker of the House incurs light and illegal claims, as long as it pathologises transsexuality, even though gender identity is a category protected by our laws.  We invite Flores to inform herself and educate herself, and in the meantime, to refrain from voting on what she does not know.”

Original source in Spanish