The old “Would you rather have a live son or a dead daughter?” ploy. Note - most trans are now teen girls wanting to be boys. The number of boys to girls is about the same as 20 years ago. Girls to boys is off the charts. (cult hysteria).
Even worse, in several states, including mine (Washington) - a CHILD can go to a “shelter” and get state-sponsored trans “treatments” without the parent’s consent or even notification. Same with Walz’s Minnesota. The nonconsenting parents are viewed as abusive, and they are kept from even knowing where their child is. In Minnesota if the parents are in another state, even a court-order from the parents is not enough to gain information about their child that has gone to Minnesota for treatment.
In Washington a “shelter” is very loosely defined, and can include a regular home that has registered with the state as a “safe house”.
When I was growing up in the 1970s, we heard horror stories about Soviet authorities indoctrinating children, teaching them to inform on parents who expressed anti-Soviet sentiments. In extreme cases, the children were taken from such "abusive" parents.
We Americans thought we were so morally superior. It could never happen here.