[yedava]

If a student wants to come out as gay and doesn't want to tell their parents, do schools inform the parents? Why should there be separate rules for identifying as transgender?

Also, given Texas's draconian laws around reproductive health, how is moving to Texas any better?

[ytpete]

The law covers both, although you wouldn't know it from the Twitter threads linked here. Here's how the San Jose Mercury News described the law:

> prohibits school districts from implementing policies requiring teachers to disclose any information on a student’s gender identity, sexual orientation or gender expression

[mensetmanusman]

Maybe they are children before they are students?

[yedava]

Sure, they are children and said children do a lot of things at school that they hide from parents. This isn't new. As long as the children are not hurting others, why should the schools care?

[mensetmanusman]

Teachers are surrogate guardians, the more communication the better. Children are not rational enough to make many decisions.

[giraffe_lady]

School-age children are actually pretty good judges of whether their parents are safe for them.

[mensetmanusman]

The UK has found that the institutions were harming children more than parents though.

[kyleee]

They shouldn’t necessarily care per se, but if they are aware of anything they should basically have to inform the parents. It’s not the school’s choice to hide various things from parents, who are ultimately responsible for children until the age of adulthood.

[Mountain_Skies]

Musk has been consistent in his calls to increase birth rates.

[mikece]

He doesn't just talk the talk in that department though there's a big difference between spawning a child process and being a good father.

[halfmatthalfcat]

The population of Earth is already debatably unsustainable and solving the immediate demographic issues of the US is easier solved through immigration rather than increasing the birth rate, which is politically ironic for Elon. His position makes no sense.

[fred_is_fred]

This could be done by maternity/paternity leave, better daycare options, and universal health care. Musk will support none of those, but will support the options that reduce freedom and choices.

[sickofparadox]

None of these actually increase birth rate, looking at countries that do do these things. Denmark, Czechia, and Sweden have expansive pro-fertility programs that have not increased the birth rate noticeably.

[falleng0d]

Lots of countries tried those and they didn’t prove to be very effective

[bryanlarsen]

That's OK, he balances it out by opposing laws that decrease teen suicide rates.

[yedava]

Musk is presumably is speaking for SpaceX families and moving to Texas can endanger their lives. If Musk said this wasn't about families, but only about his political ideology, it would be different.