An LGBT activist documenting his gender transition on TikTok went to the White House to question President Joe Biden about state laws on gender transition surgeries as the American public demonstrates skepticism of such procedures heading into the midterm elections. Dylan Mulvaney, a biologically male activist who identifies as female, announced on TikTok that he was meeting with President Biden at the White House.

In the interview, Biden reiterated his belief that states are “morally wrong” to ban gender transition surgeries on minors and other procedures described by LGBT activists as “gender-affirming.” “I don’t think any state or anybody should have the right to do that as a moral question and as a legal question,” the president said. The exchange with Mulvaney was part of a larger forum moderated by NowThis where the LGBT activist and five other “young change-makers” asked the president questions about what the progressive media outlet described as “the most critical issues facing their generation ahead of this pivotal election.”

Those issues include abortion access, transgender rights, criminal legal reform, gun legislation, economic instability and climate change.

In a video presented shortly before Mulvaney began asking Biden questions, the LGBT activist introduced himself as a “trans woman” who is “documenting my transition publicly on TikTok for the world to see.” Mulvaney lamented that “lawmakers in many states want to exclude us from participating in sports or getting proper healthcare” and that “some folks want to decide where we can use the bathroom.” According to the LGBT Movement Advancement Project, 18 states have passed laws banning trans-identified youth from competing on sports teams that correspond with their gender identity instead of their biological sex. The most common justification for such policies focuses on the biological differences between men and women that give biological males, on average, an unfair advantage over biological females in athletic competitions.

Mulvaney gave Biden the floor to share his thoughts on the ongoing debate about whether trans-identified individuals should be able to use bathrooms that correspond with their stated gender identity instead of their biological sex. “I feel very, very strongly that you should have every single solitary right, including use of your gender identity bathrooms,” the president said. Biden also described state-level efforts to limit trans individuals’ access to bathrooms, sports teams, gender surgeries and hormones as “outrageous” and “immoral.”

Currently, Alabama, Arizona and Arkansas have banned medicalized gender transitioning of minors, while the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and the Texas Attorney General have classified them as a form of child abuse. Biden concluded his remarks on LGBT issues by stressing that “just because it’s different, there’s nothing to be fearful about.”

The president’s comments provoked a reaction on social media, with postings on Twitter that “the official Democratic Party position now is that puberty blockers and sex reassignment surgery for kids is good.” Polling conducted by Summit Ministries in conjunction with McLaughlin & Associates suggests widespread discontent with the “transgender movement.” Based on responses collected from Oct. 12-17, the poll found that 65% of respondents believed that “the transgender movement has gone too far by encouraging minors to use drugs and surgery to transition to the opposite sex.” Twenty-one percent disagreed with that statement, while the remaining 14% said they did not know.

Biblical Connection: Isaiah 5:20 states “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” America is walking a very dangerous path when the President calls actions that would have been condemned as morally reprehensible even ten years ago as good and attempting to stop those actions immoral.

PRAY: Pray that these attempts to change God’s created design will be stopped and children will be protected.