Thread by @SVPhillimore

Of course Sonia Appleby had ‘an agenda’. It was child safeguarding. This is where ludicrous accusations of ‘transphobia’ will get you. The deliberate abandonment of children’s welfare to serve an adult ideology.

https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1435006674151120904

So how did the usual suspects comment on this story? They didn’t. Here’s Mermaids and one of their patrons. How is upholding Gillick competence an attack on it?

Here’a David and John, and the burning issues of the day

Katy wants your validation and your money. But no comment on such a significant development about a failure in child safeguarding.

I would have like to ask Annie Wallace what on Earth she thinks she is blathering on about re Gillick competence - but predictably.

But there are other ways of making contact

https://twitter.com/c_p_resource/status/1435131292769787904

And I can see I have been unfair to Ms Wallace. She did in fact comment. But not on the clear failures to safeguard young children. Because, I suggest, for this group, medical transition from 10 years is seen as an ambition, not a medical negligence action in waiting.

We have to be aware of this. It’s a dangerous false equivalence, pushed by Jolyon Maugham among others. A 15 year girl taking birth control to avoid pregnancy is nothing like a 12 year old girl taking testosterone.

The latter will cause immediate and irreversible consequences to the child’s body and put her future fertility at risk. I do not see how any 12 year old is able to consent to this. But for some reason, a group of adults thinks it’s essential to THEIR validation.