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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Then why is government interfering with how parents parent their trans child?[/quote]

Parent away.  Most people have no problem with you providing gender affirmation medical care for your own kid.  They want you to keep your ideas out of the classroom where it can indoctrinate other people's kids.[/quote]

Um, except for the growing list of states with Republican governors who are authorizing citizens to contact child protective services and report parents who are doing just that. Youngkin‘s latest policy also states that [b]even if parents authorize their children to use a different name or gender than the one they were given at birth, teachers and administrators can ignore that if it goes against their values[/b]. So let’s not pretend that this is about parents having the freedom to do whatever they want with their children. It’s about the right kind of parents making the right kind of choices.[/quote]

At work we should have protections against compelled speech.   Teachers may choose to use your child's preferred pronouns, but they should not be forced to do so under the threat of losing their jobs.  There must be a polite way for them to teach that doesn’t require them to participate in the child's gender journey.

My job can have standards for customer service and communication standards, but they can't force particular speech.  If my client goes off on a crazy rant about some political topic, I don't have to affirm his opinion or agree with him.  I can change the subject and bring the conversation back to the business at hand and what I am actually being paid to do.

There should be space for teachers to focus on teaching their subject and ignore your kid's gender issues completely. [/quote]

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