Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "WATCH: Cops BUST IN During Trans Teen's Minecraft Stream" video.

She wasn't in school, which was the problem, any time they interrupted it would have been something innocuous as it was her lack of doing something the law says she has to do that was at issue.
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Somehow we went from basically no significant issues with the problem a couple of decades ago, to a crisis so bad that we need to allow tons of medical procedures and accommodations in order to keep them from imploding, and that does require some justification. The feelings and emotions related to being trans can't possibly have changed so much over the last few decades that now trans people are just incapable of regulating their emotional state at all. There was an underlying risk of suicide, but in all the years I was in school my district there were no suicides of anybody known, or suspect of being, trans, even though there were suicides for other reasons.
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She had options, she chose to opt out of all of them. If she's 16, she's pretty close to having the legally required 10 years of schooling to be allowed to drop out. Making this whole thing utterly idiotic. Suddenly, school, including online school, is so unbearable that another year is too much? Seriously? The school has legal responsibilities to the students, and getting sued for allowing students to just stop coming to school doesn't serve anybody well. We grant this one the ability to just stay home, so what about the kid that's being bullied, or that has mental health issues or can't afford fashionable cloths. Clearly at some point a line needs to be drawn.
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The kid was given options and didn't like the options that were given. Please don't make this into something that it's not. There's definitely a reasonable argument to be had over whether the options given were the legally, and constitutionally required, options, but she had more options than use the men's restroom or drop out of school.
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@sprybug And yet, trans people somehow managed to survived before the current notions on rights came into fashion. I'm not suggesting that the options she was given were ideal or necessarily sufficient, but she was given options and apparently opted to reject all of them and just stay home.
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You're allowed to leave after 10 years of education, given that we're only in May, that would likely only be a few months or possibly an entire year. But, in either case, not that long. Perhaps if we stop coddling everybody and actually taught people how to deal with their emotional state, we'd get better answers. She could have either sucked it up for a few more months or taken the online option and been done with it. The options being provided weren't great, but for such a short period of time, I'm a bit skeptical that they wouldn't have worked, especially since she presumably didn't just wake up and feel this strongly about the situation. Finish the compulsory bit then find a friendly college with a GED program to finish up with. Problem solved without anybody's lives being ruined.
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Honestly, do you think that if a student that was being bullied just stopped showing up at school, they'd get a different result? This isn't about her being trans, it's about her not getting the legally mandated education. Whether the options provided for dealing with the restroom situation were sufficient or not is a separate matter.
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