It also feeds into a wider divide. Single young people, at least millenials tended to view government in terms of what it could do for them. Whereas those who are more established view it in terms of what it owes them. Some teachers may feel they work for an abstraction
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Article reactions in my circle reveal less an ideological divide than a social one. Those in their 30s who are still single see this as a social justice issue. Those who married and have kids are almost without exception disturbed no matter how liberal
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Millenials who are still single tend to immediately feel kinship with the hypothetical kids, reinforced, perhaps with residual resentment of their own parents at a midlife point that dosen't feel like half a life lived. Parents, well, there is no debate here in 98% of cases
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The idea that strangers, especially ones who lacked the maturity to have kids of their own(and this is where LibsofTiktok featuring adults with the maturity of adolescents has been so effective politically) would judge THEM as parents is infuriating. It transcends politics
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Many Parents however believe the teachers in public schools work for them. They are paid by them. They are allowed to watch someone else's kids. That is why this aspect has filtered into the voices of the established left(Atlantic, NYT) and not just the Right.
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A number of Trans activists have complained that "Trans voices" are shutout of articles like these. The real problem is their voices are largely either Gen Z, Gen X moderates who have been defenestrated for insufficient orthodoxy or millenials who are single/renters/"immature"
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One issue is they have no one who can speak convincingly to parents in the way both gay and lesbians who all had parents could. But the second, and more serious issue is they lack anyone who can even understand they type of person who is a parent or why it is an issue at all
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For better or worse, millenial trans activists took a different path than their peers who now have kids in the schools(or late Gen X parents. That dosen't just mean they don't have kids but they live in different areas, have different social groups, and do different things
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The NYT is pandering to parents with this article. But the exclusion of certain "voices" has to do with the fact that they are not part of the audience, and their effort to claim they are "by virtue of identifying as Trans we have an equal rights to an opinion on your kid"
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Parents of trans kids are part of the discussion as are kids who ID as trans, but random individuals who just happen to be trans are not. And really, teachers claiming that because they ID as "queer" or "trans" they have some special right to speak here comes off as out of line
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