This relation has been said to have been delegated by the parent, by sending his child to school, to the teacher. This justification is tenuous, however, because state compulsory eduction laws require children to go to school.
Rather, a more logical reason for allowing the teacher to stand in loco parentis to the students, thereby resulting in the privilege to discipline the students, stems from the necessity of maintaining order at the school.
This rule ordinarily affords the teacher the right to inflict punishment which is not excessive upon a pupil without incurring liability, although there is disagreement on the question of what constitutes excessiveness.3’
Do you think pressuring impressionable children to chop off their genitalia is some form of discipline? I would say detention or public shaming are more effective methods that should be adopted. Celebrating trans but shunning normal relationships is not equality.