They did not in fact recommend any such thing. They recommended banning students trying to hide their crotch shape with bandages and tape. Yes this is would be hard to enforce, but this is not a healthy thing to do to your junk and so if schools can figure out a minimally intrusive policy to discourage it maybe that's a good idea.
Would it not require a genital inspection to determine whether a student was attempting to do this or not?
The practice is harmful but the invasiveness is not worth the sacrifice nor the time. Schools should teach about consent and safe sex practices, that's it. Social reactionaries on both sides are becoming creepily obsessed with kids' genitals. Some on the right now want inspections for "purity" while many on the left condone unethical surgery and experimental treatments.
Just leave kids alone, both sides. Good God.
I would tend to agree with the idea that transition *surgeries* on young individuals should be minimal - I think they are justifiable in extreme cases where a teen is suicidal due to the severity of their dysphoria and where other treatment options have proven insufficient, for instance, and I think that is probably where the medical consensus mostly is - given that we are talking about what is admittedly a fairly drastic option, but the idea that hormone treatments are unethical or experimental strikes me as quite frankly uninformed. Hormones have been used for decades for treating all sorts of issues that affect people of all gender identities, and the idea that they are inappropriate specifically for treating gender dysphoria just doesn't make sense.
