These same white-backlash types think their cis kids are more important than their peers' trans kids. They are even arrogant and ignorant enough to think they don't actually have trans or queer kids, themselves.
They also think their white-conservative feelings about a topic they've never read are supposed to dictate public school policy.
They are not the first generation of conservative whites to behave like this regarding public school education. JoeMemphis and Bluegreen Grass articulate the same exact position of these people's segregationist, Massive Resistance parents.
Virginia's "Massive Resistance" to School Desegregation - Digital Resources for US History, University of Virginia
Virginia took several decades to desegregate. The Brown decision was preceded by years of protest and litigation and followed by a long process of further resistance and slow change. In September 1960, just 170 out of 204,000 black students in Virginia were enrolled in white schools. By 1963, the situation, as reflected in the state's capital, was not much better-of the 26,000 black students in Richmond, only 312 were enrolled in 12 formerly all-white schools. In Prince Edward County, where public schools remained closed for five years, the situation was particularly difficult.
Virginia and other Southern states resisted desegregation through a wide array of tactics, especially the development of "freedom of choice" plans. It is not surprising that many black students chose to stay in their familiar schools rather than attend white schools. "Freedom of choice" plans perpetuated highly segregated school systems and brought only token integration. The 1964 Civil Rights Act, on the other hand, and the 1968 Supreme Court decision Green v. New Kent County, Va., helped to end these means of avoiding desegregation as schools across the South integrated gradually during the late 1960s and 1970s.
