Mick Hartley

More on the same lines in the Telegraph – this time from Suzanne Moore:

Now Wes Streeting knows what it’s like to be a certain kind of woman. I jest, but not much. Since the Health Secretary announced he is going to maintain the ban on puberty blockers that Victoria Atkins brought in, he has received levels of hysterical vitriol to which women like me have become inured.

His motive is to protect children from the irreversible effects of these drugs, which may include infertility, anorgasmia, osteoporosis and an impact on brain development. His great crime is to look at the available evidence and err on the side of caution. The known harms outweigh the benefits of this experimental treatment.

Immediately after Streeting announced this, he was accused of having blood on his hands. A lot of incorrect statistics were bandied around about the suicides of teenagers who have been said to kill themselves because of a lack of access to puberty blockers.

Is it any surprise that those who cheer on the sterilisation and mutilation of young female bodies (for that is mostly what we are talking about, this huge spike in adolescent girls identifying as trans) are also happy to use these figures to fuel social contagion, therefore ignoring all the guidelines on how we talk about suicide?…

Notable figures such as the fox-killing tax lawyer Jolyon Maugham and my former “colleague” Owen Jones – as well as some delusional Labour MPs (Lewis, Whittome, Creasy, Sultana among them) – seem unable to look at the actual facts because they are invested in a belief system that needs the “trans child” to justify all sorts of misogynist ideas about trans adults.

What we have seen over the last decade is that middle-aged men, who choose to identify as women, really have little to do with confused teenage girls, as Bev Jackson of the LGB alliance pointed out. Adults may change their bodies as they desire, children may not – and this is basic safeguarding, seemingly abandoned by the Left….

I am not holding my breath for any acknowledgement that all the women who put their jobs on the line because of our concerns knew what we were talking about. We were told we did not care about gender non-conforming children – on the contrary: we cared enough to fight this insidious medical experiment.

Where have you been Labour? Incurious and incorrect mostly. Now that you are taking a stand, the deluge of abuse begins, you may one day consider how you became indoctrinated or you may rewrite history. Once the arguments about trans kids fall, the whole damn house of cards begins to collapse.

But among the rubble, don’t forget those of us who have kept the receipts still know exactly where they are.