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It just saddens me that this wouldn't be the attitude of any parent.
Conservatives want trans people gone. Full stop. For now they're happy to bring that about by bullying us into silence, to inconvenience us back out of the public eye.
When we don't comply, what do you think will happen? >

Just leave people alone, what happened to freedom? >

Conservatives were never interested in freedom. It's incompatible with a hierarchical worldview >

Which is exactly what they found to be the difference in liberals and conservatives. Must have heard/read the same study! >

Patriarchy and hierarchical control is age old. It’s taught through religion and culture. What is seen as socially conservative or traditional provides a blueprint passed down to restrict individual freedom and expression. Anyone who challenges this is tormented into submission. “Liberals” advocate for equality and merit instead of entitlement, so they are seen as threatening. >

I can't up vote this hard enough. >

Just leave trans people alone. You might not understand or relate to how they experience the world, but that's ok, because they don't affect your day-to-day life.
I'll frame it for context in a way that is more easily understood. Religion. You might not understand or relate to someone who believes in a piece of paper, but if you are a reasonable person you just leave them be because they don't affect your day-to-day life. You aren't forced to celebrate holidays with them or change your food or anything.
So take it to the logical extension, if trans people need to be policed, then you need to also police people who have religions you don't approve of, because there's no difference. People are "born" with one and they are known to "convert" to another religion on occasion. Why is it ok to change a religion? People used to be burned at the stake, stoned to death, etc. for doing that. Why is it ok now?
It's the same thing. >


if trans people need to be policed, then you need to also police people who have religions you don't approve of.      

It's on their list. >

After that, they start infighting over denominational differences. >

"There can be only one!" >

"Trans youth are facing an onslaught of regressive, punitive bills designed to bully them into silence or punish them if they identify as trans.
One of the most recent is a bill proposed in the Indiana legislature which would force teachers or administrators to notify parents if the student wants to change their “name, attire, pronoun, title, or word to identify the student in a manner that is inconsistent with the student’s biological sex at birth.” Similar bills have been pushed in other states like Arizona and New Hampshire."
This is an op-ed by Noah Berlatsky. >

A few years ago, my son's school administrator outed him as being gay to me on the phone.  It clearly wasn't by accident, as he paused to see how I would react.  My reaction was, "Fuck you for outing him like that," though I was more polite about it.  I already knew he was gay, as he'd told us long before that, and he got nothing but love for being who he is. But it could have caused a lot of trouble for him if we weren't the family we are.
It would be great if these inform parents laws just resulted in a bunch of parents saying, "Yes? And so what?" But unfortunately, I know that's not the world we live in, and so do the lawmakers. >

You have no idea how great it was to read this. We need more parents like you.