The correct response is, and always is: The safety of the children is the responsibility of the parent.
You have to be careful of these arguments. Let's go hard libertarian for a second. Who is the steward of your child? The parents or the State? The parents should be the ones who guide the baseline moral compass for that child until they reach adolescence and eventually adulthood. But it is shared with the State. The State says you can't beat your child, cut up your child, sell your child to a brothel or make them work in a labor factory. Those are considered good things now, and they weren't always.
Now some states (lower case) is also trying to say you can't give your child certain hormone drugs. This seems like a good thing, except that the state can also use the same argument to say "You must fully vax your kid" (I'm 100% against all childhood vaccinations at this point. I don't think they're remotely work the risks anymore).
You have to be careful of these arguments. Let's go hard libertarian for a second. Who is the steward of your child? The parents or the State? The parents should be the ones who guide the baseline moral compass for that child until they reach adolescence and eventually adulthood. But it is shared with the State. The State says you can't beat your child, cut up your child, sell your child to a brothel or make them work in a labor factory. Those are considered good things now, and they weren't always.
Now some states (lower case) is also trying to say you can't give your child certain hormone drugs. This seems like a good thing, except that the state can also use the same argument to say "You must fully vax your kid" (I'm 100% against all childhood vaccinations at this point. I don't think they're remotely work the risks anymore).
There is always this tradeoff in most societies.