Most of you arn't parents. I've been a parent myself for about a year and a half. While intellectually you can imagine being a parent, no one who doesn't have children can understand the emotional attachment involved. My knowledge of evolutionary biology may tell me its all chemical, but it doesn't matter, it just is.
Likewise you don't need to be a parent to think that a grown man wanting his penis to be removed has something fundamentally wrong with him. Regardless of your stance on transsexuals, something didn't work right at some point in genetics, development, whatever that caused this desire.
When something this basic is wrong, it is natural to think what else is wrong with this person. Perhaps nothing else is wrong but the concept of removing ones genitals is alien to most thinking.
Now comes the protective instinct of parents. You don't get between a grizzly and her cubs, well the same applies to soccer moms. If you are odd, and very little is as odd as a sex change, your instinct is to protect. You don't CARE about the feelings of the other person, you worry about your child. As such I would not fault a parent from not wanting their child exposed to this.
I personally think the kids involved are young enough that it wouldn't matter, I would be more worried if it were high school because it would become far more of a distraction.
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