It's bad folks. My friends who are teachers already have to walk an incredibly fine line to be supportive of their students and this is specifically designed to detonate any ability to do that. And far worse than that...
This doesn't even try to keep up the bullshit guise of being about parental consent. It's designed to force teachers to dead name students, to ban usage of preferred pronouns, and force weird gender clothing norms on kids (even aside from targeting children questioning their identity or sexuality, anyone demanding girls wear skirts in school should have their hard drives checked).
It's about being able to sack 'woke lefty' teachers at will and further destroy the state education. And worst of all of course, it's specifically designed to out potentially LGBTQ+ kids to abusive parents for punishment and 'correction'. And not just trans kids, but queer kids, kids curious about their sexuality, even kids who just don't buy into a misogynist view of gender norms. Our trans comrades are at the sharpest end of the spear, but they're coming for everybody.
And all of this at the same time the Prime Minister is caught mocking trans people, a supposedly protected class, behind closed doors.
I grew up during Section 28 and it was bad. “It gets better” they told me, look at us now…
Yeah, a lot of my youth and teenage years were during Section 28 too and its fucking grim how fast we're going backwards.