The future of this issue is about protecting trans kids and kids meaning kids, not even teenagers.
The anti-trans side here is living in the world of 1990 when a grown man like Bruce decides to "become a woman" (all of a sudden). Conjuring up the image of a man in a dress, the "transsexual" on Jerry Springer.
In the world of 2024, it's the 9 year old child going to school.
this is a much more complex issue but it has been sensationalized by the media for decades.
But there is no choice, because no one would choose it. Nobody would choose to be trans... why, when you don't have to be?
No, we're living in the world where detransitioners exist and children are being convinced by a few relatives and the internet that they're transgender because their interests are not a hundred percent stereotypical. Which is something some of us are against. The science still isn't even close to done on this subject either.
Way more actual trans kids would have been hurt by this bill than detransitioners would have been help. So straight up is the position you guys got is “we would let 100 trans kids suffer if it saved just one kid who’s not actually trans?”