Granted, doesn't take into account changing knowledge and procedure. There should be additional bookcases along the windy path for volume updates. But the point still stands. People are often more comfortable with short answers regardless of validity. Expanding on that, familiar answers, or the way they first learned things even if they don't checksum with current understandings.
Have you ever seen a boomer lose their shit over Pluto being redefined? I have. I think there is a sour combination of core belief defensiveness and a certain conditioning that wrong answers are undesired, contemptible, and punished thing rather than learning opportunities. I have a few anecdotes of being referred to decades-old texts on changing subjects with an air of discussion-ending finality, even though the same referrers on other occasions talked to me about how knowledge changes.
It's probably any psychiatrist's guess where, in the future, psychoanalytical opinion will sit, and how or what hypothetical breakthroughs in medicine will steer them. Meanwhile, proceed with best understanding in the most helpful directions to diminish human suffering blah blah blah etc.
fw: re: possible liability,
It shouldn't be a government institution's and educators' jobs to out (minors' sexual orientations or gender identities) to their parents, especially considering the risks involved in certain social environments. A better child-protective apparatus should to be in place if needed in situations that call for further steps taken, and (properly confidential) licensed counselling should be provided at every public school.
Things should be handled with caution. I imagine the last thing a lot of administrators would want is the feeling they made a student homeless and disowned or even got them murdered because they felt they had to, or were required to, unilaterally out them to unsympathetic parents.
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