Mick Hartley

Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph:

There will come a day when I don’t have to try to persuade anyone that medicalising and sterilising children is not a good idea. There will come a day when professional people do not lose their jobs or status after trial by X (Twitter), which is adjudicated by activist curtain-twitchers who pore over social media looking for evidence of wrongthink. But we are not there yet.

Just ask Prof Jacob George. The professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Dundee, whose social media posts have praised JK Rowling and indicated a gender-critical stance, was appointed chief medical and scientific officer at the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in January. His concerns about the NHS’s controversial puberty blockers trial led to the Department of Health pausing it. Yet he has now been recused from having any more involvement in the trial.

So we see it again. If you don’t hold the orthodox line on gender – trans women are women, trans men are men and non-binary is valid – beware out there, especially if you work in the public sector. The clones whose cerebral cortexes have been removed in exchange for a badge, a flag and a lanyard have had their brains filled with pink and blue candyfloss.….

The puberty blocker trial is turning into quicksand, pulling down anyone associated with it. It has done Cass no good, it has damaged Streeting immensely and it has shown the complete McCarthyism of the upper echelons of the NHS. And that is without even mentioning the actual harm it may do children.

The harm it will do children – if it goes ahead.