Worth noting that the 'crisis' of kids socially transitioning at school without notifying their parents was almost entirely seeded by a NYT article. Even in conservative states, this was nowhere on the legislative agenda a year ago and now it's everywhere.
Missouri HB.1739 contains provisions for the immediate dismissal and 4 year suspension from employment for any nurse, teacher or social worker who calls a student a name other than that which is on their school registration forms, or fails to report a non-cis identity.
legiscan.com/MO/bill/HB17...
Remember too that this entire panic is predicated on the idea that kids are getting irreversible hormones and surgeries before anyone confirms that they're 'really' trans.
If that were a real concern then schools should make social transition as easy as possible! This is all just bigotry.
one line I've seen, I think maybe specifically pushed by Jesse Singal, is that social transition isn't irreversible because kids who socially transition usually go on to medical transition
which is to say: these kids are trans! they'll stay trans unless you do conversion therapy to them!
lol I guess Singal was pushing this line specifically in response to you
his "I'm not a hack" T-shirt is raising lots of questions etc. etc.
nitter.net/jessesingal/...
Exactly, he wants easily reversible treatments to be treated as irreversible. The fact that most people who socially transition eventually pursue medical transition is evidence that they're doing it with a lot of forethought, not that it's being pushed on them!
And you know if most people who socially transitioned *didn’t* medically transition that would just prove social transition is an unnecessary fad and thus should be stopped.
Transphobic rhetoric lives on ‘heads I win, tails you lose’
