When I was in 3rd grade no one would have had anything to do with this pitiful fruitcake. Hateful? No, common sense.
I really think it’s a bit much, to expect 3rd graders to cope with this trans-gender, trans-sexual, “sexual identity” business.
Heck, many of us adults have trouble coping with it all. Why do we have to expect children, in this case 3rd graders, to take it all in and act like it’s normal and not unusual???
The same thing probably happened where I went to school. No one would have beaten it up, but they would have not went near it either.
Yes, hateful, as in the parents hate their son.