Why is New York City so afraid to discuss gender affirmation in schools?

Should adults tell a little boy who likes pink princess dresses that he “is born in the wrong body” — or that he is just perfect the way he is? Should a “tomboy” who eschews those pink princess dresses to climb trees ever hear she’s not really a girl — or should she be assured it’s perfectly normal for girls to like and do “boy things”?Should girls struggling to adjust to the major body changes of adolescence be counseled to be comfortable in their own female form — or offered a surgeon’s scalpel?The trans movement tells young people there’s a right way and a wrong way to be male or female, and if you miss the mark, you can remedy the mismatch by blocking your puberty with hormones and surgically modifying your body to “fix” it.Schools encourage this extremism with the gateway drug of “social transition”: Kids can change their name and pronouns in school, and many officials and teachers will fight to hide that choice from parents.Supporters call it “gender-affirming” care and have long claimed it to be “life-saving” — asking parents who object the gut-punch question, ”Would you rather have a living son or a dead daughter?”Trans activists pushed the model of gender affirmation into countless institutions before most Americans had ever heard the word “cisheteronormative.”We didn’t then know the truth behind benign-sounding but Frankenstein-esque “top surgery” and “bottom surgery” procedures that remove healthy breasts and testicles to “align” the patient’s body with his or her “gender identity.” In 2019, with most parents blissfully unaware, New York City public schools adopted the gender-affirmation model with the passage of “Gender Guidelines” mandating that students have access to sports, bathrooms and locker rooms of the sex they “identify” with — and have the right to change their names and pronouns in school without parental consent or notification.City schools developed and imp...