Mick Hartley

More on the puberty blocker trail, from the Mail:

Children who sign up to the controversial puberty blockers trial will be told to consider freezing their eggs or sperm because of the risk posed to their fertility.

Young people experiencing ‘gender incongruence’ who take part in the NHS-backed study will be offered expert advice on preserving their ability to become parents later in life – even though they will be as young as ten.

Girls among the cohort will also be warned not to get pregnant in case the powerful drugs damage unborn babies.

These are young children, being given adult advice. It’s a disgrace.

Shadow Equalities Minister Claire Coutinho told the Daily Mail: ‘No eight-year-old child can make decisions about their future fertility. Asking them to do so is completely unethical, and yet another reason why the Streeting Trial must be stopped.

‘This document shows that giving children these powerful drugs has clear, irreversible risks to their brain development and bone density. The NHS is choosing to expose children to lifelong harm.

‘These are physically healthy children being put on a medical pathway to permanent chemical castration whilst they are still in primary school. No child can consent to that, and no adult should ask or enable them to.’

Baroness Cash, a former commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, added: ‘These children need support not medicating. This is a medical scandal happening in plain sight and it must be stopped.’

Helen Joyce from charity Sex Matters said: ‘Of all the horrors hidden in the guide for participants in the puberty blockers trial, the approach to their future fertility is perhaps the worst.

‘Children who may be as young as ten are sold a fantasy that they can preserve their fertility, even as they embark on a treatment pathway that will block their normal development into adulthood and is likely to end up destroying their ability to have children naturally.

‘Some of the participants in this trial will be so young they still believe in Santa Claus. Some may not even be clear on the facts of life. This guide envisages conversations they will not be mature enough for, and which are totally inappropriate for their age group.’

We don’t hear much from the parents in all this. We can only assume they’re all fully on board with sacrificing their children’s health in the service of gender ideology. As for the doctors….