Oh, they know - I would bet money the activists organizing this shit know that this isn't a law, but they have a vested interest in lying about it and making sure that all you see in the media is the lie, and never the truth. If people actually looked into the guidance and why it exists, they would realize that it's reasonable, because most sane people would agree that pumping your kids full of dangerous chemicals and sterilizing them is child abuse. So they have to sensationalize - it's not "the Texas AG says sterilizing kids is abuse," it's "Texas made a law that if you send your son to school in a dress CPS will remove your child from your home and massacre your family!! But don't look at their Evil Fascist Materials, just take my word for it!" 90% of liberals live in social media bubbles and will never be exposed to the reality of the issue anyway, so it works.

They're doing the same thing with the bill in Florida that they're calling the "don't say gay" bill. Of course, it has very little to do with homosexuality, it's about protecting kids from trans activists and their agenda of sterilizing little kids. If you actually read the text of the bill (Kara Dansky provides a link here) it basically says you can't teach gender and sexuality to kids before third grade and, more importantly, that school employees (faculty, counselors, etc.) are not allowed to keep important shit like mental health issues from parents or institute serious changes without parental notification and consent - in other words, no more school counselors helping kids change their names behind their parent's back, no more hiding from parents that the school counselor helped their daughter get hooked up with exogenous testosterone, no withholding from parents that little Jimmy is threatening suicide unless everybody calls him Jane.