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.
But also: normalize going ahead with hormones to decide whether you're trans. It's easy to stop them if you're not. In fact, normalize adjusting any part of your biochemistry to see if it helps, without any medical gatekeeping. I'm completely serious.
Oh, you're preaching to the converted here (with the important proviso that every trans person is different, with individual desires and needs, and that some will prefer not to have the medical system involved in how they express their gender on the not-unreasonable grounds that it's not an illness)
E.g., both our kids are trans; both came out to us around the same age. Elder's first priority was to change their pronouns & name and get into counseling, & didn't take medical steps til years later; Younger wanted HRT immediately, blew off the shrink, & still uses birth name & pronouns w us
As a family, we were in something of a privileged position of keeping all options on the table, for each child to take or leave as they need. For families who cannot or will not do that, though, social transitioning is generally the least disruptive option for *all* parties, including the kid
