Tony is pumped, the District Court in Maryland suggested parents don't have to be told if their kid is trans (he actually did seem to read what he posted correctly this time, I did not read the ruling however he is definitely exaggerating the scope of this dismissal) and he knows so many brave and stunning trans children in Maryland (that he talks to online?) who this will protect:
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Planning on trooning out Tony Jr already, huh?
Anyway, so, reading this a bit more carefully, I think this is a shitty decision, but not really the win Tony is painting it as.
So, one aspect of the ruling is that the privacy guidelines are just a framework. They don't demand that schools not disclose troonery in 100% of cases, but just that schools have that option if the child doesn't feel safe or the parents would be unsupportive. I think this is OK if we're talking like beatings or throwing them out on the street, but obviously woke groomer teachers are going to interpret "maybe we want a second opinion from a sane therapist" as basically the same thing. So I don't like this ruling, but I can see why this dismissal happened.
I think the problem with how the parents approached this is that they didn't focus hard enough on the "medical" aspect of trooning. The county is handwaving it away as a social thing, kinda like homosexuality, whereas if the parents made the case that the county encouraging social transition is basically a counseling service that is likely to lead to later medical interventions, they'd have done a lot better.
The decision itself says:
This Opinion should not be read to foreclose the possibility that, under some circumstances, school actor may impermissibly interfere with the parental role in counseling a transgender or gender nonconforming child. One can envision a scenario in which interference by school personnel might rise to the level described in Arnold or Gruenke.
Gruenke was a decision involving some creepy high school coach demanding some girl on his team take a pregnancy test, then went skipping around the town blabbing all about it, all without informing the parents. Here's a
good discussion about it.
It's interesting because they specifically address whether or not he should've informed the parents about that. (indeed, he should've)
Anyway, cool Tony. Maybe you've got this limited win. Now otherwise we're just counting down 'til some of the title IX cases hit the supreme court and settle that sex discrimination means "sex discrimination" nationally.
So cherish it while you still can.
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