Maya Forstater at The Critic on the puberty blocker trial: The government has licensed the “pathways” puberty blockers experiment to go ahead. Drugs used for chemical castration will be given to children with the hope of improving their mental wellbeing moderately for a few years. The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, is the man responsible. Clinicians…

Talking of Kathleen Stock (below)…. Fun fact: Sally Hines was her Doctoral student.

This will go down in history as one of the worst medical scandals of all time. Adults inside and outside the medical profession sold troubled young people like Varian the idea that all of their complex trauma would be resolved by removing healthy body parts. As more and more detransitioners arrive in court, the public…

John Islip Street, behind Tate Britain:

Remember the astonishingly brave Kurdish women who were at the forefront of the battle against Islamic State? They haven’t gone away. From the Telegraph: An all-female Kurdish militia that led the fight against Islamic State (IS) is refusing to lay down its arms against pro-government forces in Syria. The Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), which numbered 24,000 at…

Extract: We live in a time of egregious comparisons to the Holocaust when the Holocaust is repellently abused and minimized by cynical cretins – radiohosts, podders, politicians- to criticize anything from vaccination to ICE raids. But here is a comparison that stands in its scale and horror: in size and horror this does resemble the…

From Saturday’s march in London, from the JC: Chants of “long live the ayatollah” could be heard as demonstrators marched past Aldwych on their way to Downing Street. These are people who think of themselves as progressive. But their hatred of Israel – of Jews – outweighs any sympathy they might have for the tens…

Thea Sewell in the Telegraph: I came to Cambridge because I wanted to learn how to think, not what to think: how to weigh arguments, test premises, spot evasions and follow a thought wherever it leads, even when it becomes uncomfortable. I did not come to be preached at, or for slogans. I expected the…