Mick Hartley

Former Tavistock doctor Az Hakeem, author of DETRANS: When transition is not the solution, interviewed in the Mail:

'Kids are all identifying as trans or non-binary.

'It's become a new subculture. I was a post-punk goth. The current subculture is not a medical condition.

'They are not really trans, it's just the cool thing to do. When I was a teenage goth there was no goth identity clinic, luckily.

'We are castrating them chemically with puberty blockers. We think it's treatment but it's not the solution.

'It's an awful situation.

'The culture is one where people don't challenge someone who says they are a different sex.

'Increasingly organisations are going on with this narrative that people are born in the wrong body.

'No one is born in the wrong body.'

You can imagine someone with say cystic fibrosis, or someone born deaf, or merely someone who wants to be a sports star who has poor coordination, complaining that they were born in the wrong body. They don't, though. Life's hard sometimes…what can you do?

It's just this ridiculous gender cult…