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Originally Posted by Doctorfever
These policies are so hard to support or not. To me, every single child and every situation can be different from the next. I personally would want to know if my child wants to use a different pronoun. But I really don’t think it would be a problem for my personal situation as I spend lots of time with my kids and have lots of conversations. So I would know what my kids want by talking to them, not from hearing it from school.
Some parents would want to know so they could support their children and some would want to know so they could stop their children.
Some children might know more about themselves at 10 years old than the next child knows about themselves at 14.
Really really tough to group everything together when every situation can be so different.
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Youve identified a common problem in policy making. Often times, solutions can't be posited to every situation and legislated away. Thats why the general principle is to reduce harms to groups through policy creation. It's from that lense that I would attack this policy:
Harm to children concealing an identity change from an angry parent (or similar) if it were to be divulged >
- Harm to the parent for not being close enough with their child to know that they wish to be known different,
- Harm to the parent that their child does not copy their ideology (religious or otherwise)