This past week, the Obama administration issued an edict declaring that all public schools must allow students to use whichever bathroom they feel like using or face a stop in all federal funding.

Though schools aren’t being lawfully forced to comply — since Obama could not get any similar law passed through Congress if he tried — the letter issued by the administration basically states, “do what we want, or else.”

This comes on the heels of fiery national debate on whether those who are transgender can use the bathrooms of the gender with which they identify.

And before I start this, I feel like it must be said, in the words of Ben Shapiro, that “facts don’t care about your feelings.” We have arrived to where this becomes a real problem: our youth are not able to comprehend something adults themselves can barely understand.

No, this has nothing to do with pedophiles or anything of that nature — that kind of talk is hyperbole used to break a policy on semantics and not on substance. This has to do with indoctrinating children with the idea of gender fluidity at a young age and subsequently messing with their understanding of reality.

The problem lies when we, as a society, start inserting such complicated ideas into the classroom.

Teaching such a concept to children as young as five can be quite devastating on their understanding of the world — everything is relative, even notions set in stone like gender.

Let’s take a moment to be honest with ourselves about gender.

Scientifically speaking, everyone is born with a set pair of sex chromosomes. A person’s gender is decided in the creation process. It shouldn’t be decided after someone is born.

But the Obama administration continues to push a narrative of post-birth gender identity onto the children of America without an awareness of what’s truly going on with being transgender.

If the president’s biggest worry is the bullying of transgender people, then how about employing teachers who actually stop bullying? Countless times, students, transgender or not, are bullied all over the country.  The incident is recorded on a note, then soon forgotten.

By implementing these guidelines in schools, the administration is blatantly opening kids up to a life of confusion as they struggle with ideas they were taught as a child.

Adults still don’t fully understand what it is to be transgender, and most are split on whether the concept is innate or is caused by the surroundings. Why would implanting such a complicated idea into a young child’s mind be OK to anyone?

The administration is playing a dangerous game with the well-being of children on the line. This needs to stop before a generation of children is severely impacted.

Opinion columnist Jorden Smith is a political science junior and president of the College Republicans. He can be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com

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“Transgender guidelines too confusing for young children” was originally posted on The Daily Cougar