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!
A few years ago they started with misrepresenting a study to claim that a large percentage don't medically transition and when the obvious rebuttal happened they switched to arguing that the lack of "false positives" is a major problem.
