Guest post by "Anonymous" Wendy's greatest fear is seeing her child hurt. Forcing Sarah to start going to school as a boy, refusing to let her present as a girl anymore, would put her in far more danger than accepting this, and Wendy knows it.
Wendy's already accepted Sarah for who she is, not 100%, but close enough. She knows that her child is happier when presenting as a girl, and has done what she can to give Sarah as many *safe* times to present as herself. But the world is cruel and she wasn't ready to risk putting her child in danger. This hesitance was amplified when Sarah was hospitalized for being trans. Now she knows that Sarah can go to school without risk, why would she go back on that?
She's giving a month-long punishment, and that's just the start, but the punishment fits the crime.
