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!
I think this has gone through such an absurd case of telephone that now the Policy Exchange report that’s the basis for changing UK guidance for schools says social transition is ‘an active medical intervention’, it’s madness bsky.app/profile/nate...
There are completely BONKERS claims strewn throughout the Policy Exchange report, like 'social transition is an active medical intervention' (?????), which somehow means there are unspecified 'risks' (a 'risk' of being trans!), and thus 'has no place within an educational setting'.
Deranged
