Mick Hartley

Baroness Cass has, regrettably, stated her belief that the puberty blocker trial is vital. Unfortunately the trial as currently conceived will provide no solid evidence one way or the other. In fact it seems to be set up precisely to provide a positive answer: taking children already schooled in gender-speak, asking them soppy questions about “Have you felt sad?” or Have you had fun with your friends?” as primary outcome measures, and only following up for two years, before any mature regrets, and before the debilitating physical consequences become unignorable. It’s a trans activists dream.

Stella O’Malley:

It comes as no surprise to me (and many others studying this) that Cass believes the puberty blocker trial is “vital”.

Cass, NHS clinicians and researchers are shaped by consumer-led healthcare. When medicine turns into consumerism “do no harm” becomes “buyer beware”.

So-called “gender medicine” rests on a dangerous myth that harming healthy bodies with hormones and surgery is the only answer to what the NHS are now calling “gender incongruence.”

This is not true.

Millions struggle with OCD or anorexia and may seem unlikely to recover, but that doesn’t mean we should support liposuction, Ozempic or bleaching your skin raw to satisfy a disorder.

The entire premise of medicalising identities is flawed.

We need to STOP. We need to treat the mind, not the body; we need to study psychosocial treatments, not extreme body modification

Since a considerable majority of “gender dysphoric” children are gay, and struggling to come to terms with that fact, this “trial” is really gay conversion therapy on a brutal scale.