It’s worth remembering that the grant of leave to appeal does not change the judgement of the court.

The rule of law will and should run its course. In the meantime, all any of us can do is to follow the law as it stands.

Don’t trust anyone that suggests otherwise.
2/ Here is the original order of the court in Bell v Tavistock dated 2/12/20 para 3 of which grants a stay of the order pending permission to appeal, until the Court of Appeal determines permission & the stay. Permission granted, was the continuation of the stay too?
3/ The Tavistock implanted the order almost immediately by amending its contract with GIDS, despite the stay. The rationale for that hasn’t changed. The judgement & Order were so emphatic that I think it would be a brave or foolish clinician that would not seek to implement it.
4/ Let’s wait to see official confirmation that the Order granting the stay continues to the appeal. If the stay continues then in my view, only clinicians with a questionable grasp of ethics will continue to prescribe.

The order will loom heavily over all prescribing PBs.

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7 Jan
1/ So, so many emotions this morning. Relief & anger amongst them: just imagine if that crowd storming the Capitol was Black.

Never thought I’d be grateful for @VP Mike Pence - but I am. He gave one of the finest speeches of any politician last night.
2/ But most of all, despite everything that happened overnight in the US, I never thought I’d feel fear about a Democratic president, with control of both Houses of Congress - but I do.
3/ I’m a Democrat. I’m also a Black British feminist & a lesbian. I believe that sex is real & immutable. I believe passionately that gender-diverse & transgender persons must be protected from discrimination, but not at the cost of erasing ’woman’ as a sex based legal category.
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1 Jan
1/ Judith Butler once again demonstrating that a minority of women are capable of being woman-hating, penis pandering, vicious zealots. All the while imagining that they’re being deliciously transgressive.

Woman-hatred is not new. It’s not radical. It’s just disgraceful.
2/ Feminism & recognising females as distinct from males, safe spaces, safeguarding & enforceable, legal protections from men, were not based on the belief that “ALL men are rapists or that the penis wields this nefarious power”, just that there exists a profound statistical risk
3/ Butler accuses JKR & therefore all survivors of having “fostered hatred & misunderstanding & perhaps capitalised on a history of sexual trauma”.

It‘s a special kind of woman that would say such a thing, of another named woman, who has been bombarded with threats & abuse.
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6 Dec 20
1/ In a week that has brought hope to so many, this piece by @jo_bartosch is especially good. It captures the bravery of whistleblower Susan Evans, former psychiatric nurse at GIDS, on the Puberty Blockers scandal.
2/ GIDS: ‘Between 2016 and 2019, a total of 35 clinicians left the Tavistock, many reporting concerns. One psychologist, who wished to remain anonymous, feared that “young people are being over-diagnosed and then over-medicalised”.
3/ GIDS ‘Others felt the influence of lobby groups on clinical practice.
It also highlighted claims of homophobic attitudes among the parents of children attending the clinic, with some allegedly appearing to prefer their children to be transgender and straight, rather than gay.’
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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.
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1/ #KeiraBell judgement 3rd (and final) take!

Court held under 16’s can only take puberty blockers if competent to understand the nature of them BUT also that there will be “enormous difficulties“ in obtaining proper consent.

Under 14’s “highly unlikely”
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Under 18’s, still great difficulties with consent but presumption that they *may* be able to give informed consent.

All must obtain court order.
3/ Still a great victory!
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