I agree. To piss em off, I would tell them I have never been taught on how to appropriately teach a transgender, therefore I may not be able to teach them well, if at all.
I think most of the stuff going on in the lower ages is just nascent attention getting, and rebellion. And too busy to care parents.
‘And too busy to care parents.’
I’m not sure that is the case; it depends on how invested the parents are of not offending the prevailing societal zeitgeist....my parents were hyper about me not conforming to the Wally Cleaver image, in that it might degrade their standing among the neighbors...