There are lots of kids in absolutely horrid conditions that CPS doesn't take, they're not going to take them from your middle class home just because your mother in law didn't happen to clean.
Yes, Texas legislators passed a virtue signaling law to do so, but it was blocked immediately. there is also a big gap between what laws are passed and the realistic chance of your child being taken away when the system actually confronts families.
The lunacy of today's synthetic sex identity movement aside, what did you imagine, that the Texas state government would take these kids out back and shoot them?
Which is the whole point. They're better off with proper treatment than without. Anti-trans activists don't care about kids' welfare, they just want them to conform at any cost.
https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(21)00568-1/full...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/277...
https://www.hcplive.com/view/suicide-risk-reduces-73-transge...
What are you even trying to do, here?
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0062...
We certainly know that people who identify as transgender are at higher risk of suicide than the broader population.
Edit: BTW, there are mountains of evidence showing far better life outcomes for trans kids and adults who receive gender-affirming treatment, with or without surgery. If you actually care about the welfare of trans kids, you should educate yourself and stop listening to lying bigots.
Standardized tests are a route to social mobility for some. This guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Webb
came from a hardscrabble background in Missouri, standardized test results helped him get into the Naval Academy, he was a marine lieutenant in Vietnam, got a law degree, spent a lot of time in Asia as a journalist, wrote some novels including one about a guy who becomes a US Senator, actually became a US Senator representing Virginia.
There is a lot of concern that attempts to get kids into gifted programs other than through testing will be influenced greatly by family SES
https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/2/17/22288448/nyc-gifted-admis...
There was that time I yelled at my son when he was a toddler and carried him under my arm out of a grocery store and somebody called child protective on me. They sent somebody to my house and fortunately my mother-in-law had just been cleaning and the house looked absolutely spotless, full of books, horses grazing in front of the house, at least middle if not upper class. They had no idea that my house doesn't even have central heat!
Had they come to a hovel I could have had a very different outcome. They interviewed people and had a short investigation but based on appearances they saw what looked like "a good home" and might have gathered we'd have resources to fight them in court.