1/ What turns a child into an adult? Puberty. It follows that if a 10 year old is given puberty blockers & 8 years later, legally an adult, decides to take cross - sex hormones, having missed this crucial stage in human development, is this really the consent of an adult?
2/ Adulthood isn’t merely the passage of time. It’s about physiological, sexual & cognitive development, including independence of thought. PBs block all of this. They deliver physically, sexually & emotionally immature ‘adults’ into the arms of big pharma & the trans lobby.
3/ This is why PBs in gender dysphoria are *completely* different to PBs for precocious puberty. A 7 yr old taking PBs to stop an early puberty will be on them for a short time before experiencing full puberty. A GD child on PBs will not & will never complete normal development.
4/ To see advocates of PBs for gender dysphoria insist that children can consent to them; that it’s about “bodily autonomy”; that it brings them “joy” —turns my stomach. Those of us that know what grooming looks like, know what this language is painfully close to.
5/ Those orgs that are blithely ignoring the Bell v Tavistock ruling, from a court that considered evidence from around the world, including from WPATH & the Endocrine Society & are saying that they know better & chanting slogans, are truly disgracing themselves & their orgs.
6/ I didn’t expect these orgs to celebrate the Bell ruling, although they should. But I did expect them to respect it. That none of them have is a crisis in child protection. It reveals something rancid at the heart of their organisations.
7/ That’s why we need a public inquiry that examines what happened at the Tavistock & what is happening with LGBTQ orgs & child safeguarding. We need a moratorium on their funding & influence. The stakes are too high. We are either a country of laws or empty ideologies.
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