I think you're drinking the conspiracy kool-aid with this claim. I'm 33 and
when I was in school, they needed permission to provide me something small like
Tylenol. I have family members who are teachers and kids in our family from
elementary to highschool. I'm also in Minnesota which has been blue for a long
time.
There is absolutely zero truth to kids being secretly helped to transition
with meds or operations. The claim is absurd.
The claim that people support secret transition operations is also absurd.
I'm socially liberal and fiscally conservative and this is not anything I would
support. I doubt you'll find any sane adult that supports this. That means the
democratic party absolutely does not support this either.
What I and most of the party does support is talking with kids who feel
their gender doesn't match the way they were born. This means therapy,
counseling, consultations with a doctor to talk through everything. Parents
should be involved in the conversations if the child wants to do anything more
than talk. Things like medications and such should not be provided without
parental and doctor involvement. Again, there is ZERO evidence of schools
providing any sort of medical treatment, prescriptions, or operations in secret
to kids. Any such claim to the contrary is absurd. They don't have enough money
for class supplies as it is.
What I do support is the school keeping the gender identity and sexuality
private from parents IF the child feels the parents will be abusive to them if
they come out. There's plenty of examples of strict or religious parents who
would abuse or kick out a child if they came out as trans or LGBT. The privacy
protection is something I'm onboard with. Anything more than counseling should
not be allowed until parents are involved and a doctor agrees with any plans.
Ideally, no physical operations will happen until they're 18 under any
circumstances.
This is my opinion as a slightly left of center voter. Republicans should
be in full support of these views as the self proclaimed "freedom party".
Unfortunately they've repositioned themselves to be in favor of government
control with: book bans, white washing history, controlling women's Healthcare,
trying to ban same sex marriage, forcing religion (specifically Christianity)
into public schools, threatening to imprison the media and people who speak out
against them. Republicans are not about freedom anymore since Trump became
popular. I hope once he's done with his second term that the party can return to
normal.
