Just did a fact check, because facts matter, right?
This budget year in Saskatchewan?
$235.3M — increase for education (up 6.2%)
Second, I'd go with Sweden, and many other European nations , which regard the astronomical rise in diagnosis of gender dysphoria, on average 200% plus for boys and 1200% plus for girls, in a ten year period 2010-2018, as a 'social contagion'.
Third, we still don't know the long term consequences of ADT and other chemical puberty inhibiting regimens, some of which are used in prison to 'chemically castrate' pedophiles.
Talk to a prostate cancer survivor and ask him what he thinks of bicalutamide, nilutamide, flutamide, enzalutamide, apalutamide, and/or darolutamide.
And you actually think that's good for a child?
The side effects? Horrendous.
Fourth, the human brain is not fully developed until in one's 20's. How can we even try to find out if a child's brain is able to handle these choices and lifelong consequences: and that's not even getting into puberty and the necessary changes to the brain.
Fifth, of course some children with gender dysphoria will suffer without proper counselling. They will need help.
And you are right, some parents are not to be trusted with sensitive information.
Most of the students I worked with did NOT want to 'come out' to their parents until in grade 11 or 12, after a lot of counselling, or if in fundamentalist homes, never.
Shame is a nasty inhibitor.
In this case removing parents from the decision making process, with enormous long term health issues, is based on a 'them versus us' paradigm.
IOW, if parents don't fully support their children, why they must be transphobic.
Therein lies the dangers of absolutism.
Regardless, most teenagers excel in deception and will do what they want outside of their parents' aegis.
After all, a pronoun change does not involve medication and surgical interventions.
But if that's in the mix, then Doctors and teachers or counsellors or administrators had better look into the responsibilities of in locus parentis.
Enabling a 'social contagion' can have dire consequences for everyone.