@Croquemitaine #154986
It's not about the (real or perceived) concern about a children's safety and autonomy.
It's why Republicans will ban trans people from trans people from seeking proper healthcare and will make up stories about trans people forcing/brainwashing CIS kids into being trans, all the while turning a blind eye to the nonconsensual mutilation of intersex children at the hands of Doctors.
To say nothing of queer children being brainwashed by conversion therapy that is designed to abuse them into being cishet.