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Parents annoyed as pronouns law requires Indiana schools to report all nickname requests
(www.indystar.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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And if the parents are supportive, then the government simply bans gender affirming care and labels it child abuse a far as the law is concerned. This way if parents are supportive of their trans kid, the government can lock the parents up in prison for child abuse and give the child to an appropriately intolerant foster family.
After all, what's better for a child? To be raised in a loving and accepting environment or to be beaten because they don't conform to what conservatives declare to be "normal"?
I'd only add that conservatives have already shown their hand when it comes to trans people. At first, it was "we're only restricting gender affirming care for kids because they need to become adults before they make such big decisions." (Although conservatives didn't seem to think that a raped 10 year old girl wasn't too immature to carry a pregnancy to term.)
Now, they've moved on to banning gender affirming care for adults as well. Their "we're just protecting kids" talking points obviously don't apply when the trans person is 30, so they've outright shifted to full blown anti-trans rhetoric instead of hiding behind the very thinly veiled "protect the kids."