Oklahoma transgender student dies after allegedly assaulted by students at school

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11. what I'm trying to get at here

is not so much liability (although I think that is another discussion that could bear threshing out)
As questioning the premise borne in your last sentence

"Worst of all is once again the "protect children" crowd failed to protect a child all because they weren't the right kind of child "

I'm not sure that the teachers and school system are at all on board with the, as you put it, "wrong kind of child" hysteria and witch hunt. Most educators that I'm familiar with have very little time for this sort of crap. And in fact, are thoroughly heartsick that this noxious nonsense is making it's way into their schools. As I tried to point to in my post - the genesis for this garbage being crammed down their throats - is the Governor and the Mom's for Liberty wackos. And almost certainly not the teachers. (at least none that I've run across) (and I'd be sincerely surprised to find the teacher's union is fostering this ugliness. you?)