This blind empathy that you speak of comes at quite a price. Children do not magically get sprinkled with fairy dust and become the opposite sex. They go through surgery, take life long harming hormones including puberty blockers that will sterilize them and now those who have taken them are found to have brittle bones. None of this is tested on children. This doesn't even include the mental health issues and the bullying.  They are finding that children with autism are extremely open to gender issues and parents of teens and 20s are trying to stop their autistic kids from believing they are the opposite sex.   I just don't think that the general public who want to be supportive are really aware of how dangerous and life threatening all of this is.  I truly think the schoolboard has made a wise decision.