Thread by @bmitchellwrites

The Great Transgender Experiment covered in depth in today's Times. Paper has spoken to 5 clinicians who used to work at GIDS.

For those who don't subscribe, a few noteworthy quotes:

"Gay children struggling with their sexuality diagnosed as Trans."

thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/c…

"Young lesbians considered at the bottom of the heap suddenly found they were really popular when they said they were trans.”

-"Children’s bodies are being damaged in order to treat societal issues"

-Oxford academic: “Given paucity of evidence, the off-label use of drugs [for outcomes not covered by the medicine’s licence] in gender dysphoria treatment largely means an unregulated live experiment on children.”

"Clinicians claim that young people are now routinely referred for hormone therapy after as few as three hour-long sessions. They believe that physically healthy children are being medicated in response to pressure from transgender lobby groups and parental anxieties."

- “This experimental treatment is being done not only on children, but very vulnerable children, who have experienced mental health difficulties, abuse, family trauma, but sometimes those [other factors] just get whitewashed.”

"The clinicians have warned that complex histories and adolescent confusion over possible homosexuality are being ignored in the rush to accept and celebrate every young person’s new transgender identity.”

Article number 2: thetimes.co.uk/article/it-fee…

3. thetimes.co.uk/article/doubts…

4. thetimes.co.uk/article/famili…

A lot of women have had their reputations trashed, have been threatened and bullied for voicing similar views. Slowly but surely things are unravelling for a number of toxic Transgender lobby groups and their cheerleaders. As always, follow the evidence not the ideology.

Transgenderism has successfully and cynically targeted : 1. Confused and troubled children. 2. Their parents. 3. Women-only spaces. 4 Language. Aided and abetted by powerful lobbyists and ignorant politicians terrified of being on 'the wrong side of history.'

Each extremely concerning in their own right. Pt 4 is one of the shrewdest ways the Trans lobby have taken control of this debate. By policing what we can and can't say, and using nebulous 'hate crime' legislation to back up its aims, they have silenced so many critics.

I've followed this issue for years now and have maintained for a while that gender-critical feminists will eventually be vindicated for standing up to these bullies. The Trans lobby won't know what's hit them when the lawsuits begin and the funding dries up.

It has also exposed the shallowness of the supposedly 'progressive values' so many Leftie men claim to hold. When it comes to standing up for women, too many men have gone into hiding. Worse, they've sided with the bullies.

So true from @sarahditum: "The Times investigation into the NHS’s paediatric Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) reveals a worrying picture of ideology outpacing medicine."

thetimes.co.uk/article/times-…

"If gay & lesbian young people (not to mention those with complex traumas & dysfunctional family backgrounds) have been made the subjects of a vast uncontrolled experiment in conversion therapy,it'll be one of the greatest disgraces in medical ethics this country has ever known."