Mick Hartley

This comes as no surprise:

Girls who do not like pink ribbons or playing with dolls are being treated as transgender at the NHS Tavistock clinic, according to a whistleblower.

Dr David Bell, who was a governor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, said that his former employer was acting as a “gateway for puberty blockers”, putting young people on a pathway to medical treatment.

At a conference organised by Genspect, a parental support group for gender-questioning children, Bell said that adolescents not conforming to gender stereotypes were treated as if they had been born in the wrong bodies.

Medical intervention at the north London trust was “supporting a rigid, binary construction of gender” where if patients “don’t like pink ribbons and dollies, you are not really a girl”.

With “proper” treatment, he believed many of the children would go on to be gay or lesbian and instead wants gender-focused treatment to be scrapped with these issues looked at as part of general mental health support. About 98 per cent of young people put on puberty blockers went on to take cross-sex hormones, he said.

Bell, who worked as a psychiatrist in adult services, retired after 24 years at the trust, which hosts a controversial children’s gender identity development service (GIDS), the only one of its kind in England.

In 2018 he was threatened with disciplinary action after accusing some colleagues of “fast-tracking” young people into life-altering decisions without a full assessment.

Dr Bell also said that the “influence of powerful political lobbies” such as Stonewall and Mermaids had “closed down space for thought, doubt and exploration”, meaning that Tavistock staff feared being labelled transphobic for raising concerns.

Once Judith Butler declared that sex wasn't a biological category but was "performative" – and once her absurd theories spread out of academia into the wide world – this kind of gender fetishism becomes inevitable. Far from liberating us from sex stereotypes, we see now how gender becomes a new rigid orthodoxy of how men and women should behave. And of course we see the new homophobia (and misogyny) driving it all.

As we heard a couple of weeks back, even China has got on board:

China has opened its first dedicated clinic for adolescents and children who wish to change their gender.

The clinic, at the Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, will offer evaluations, diagnosis and interventions to help young people understand sexuality and improve family relations, according to state media.

It will integrate clinical departments and “serve as a bridge between transgender children, parents, doctors and society”, said the Global Times, a party mouthpiece.

Doctors said the clinic was necessary after seeing cases including an adolescent girl who liked playing with cars, disliked wearing skirts and suffered anxiety and depression after puberty.

There you go. Liked playing with cars? Clearly a case for medical intervention: puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgery, and a lifetime of misery.