dressing the situation; we’d be discussing the fact that the Stonewall agenda has grown live ivy into, and around, all the institutions we assume will keep children safe. In schools and in after-school clubs, on TV and online, children are surrounded by adults who actually suggest to them gender dysphoria may be a cause of their ordinary anxieties.
As noted in the previous post, Stonewall may be on the way out, but its influence remains. It's "grown live ivy into, and around, all the institutions we assume will keep children safe", as Wakefield has it.
On Wednesday, members of the Women and Equalities Committee (WESC) met to discuss the “evidence base on the safety and effectiveness of puberty blockers.” As Hannah Barnes, (author of Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service), says, it was an appalling sign of what’s to come.
Dr Hilary Cass spent four years looking into gender dysphoria and puberty blockers, but she was not invited to contribute. Instead, the committee heard from consultant paediatric endocrinologist Professor Gary Butler, who was responsible for prescribing medication, including puberty blockers and hormones, to young people at University College London Hospitals; and from Professor Simon Giordano, who has argued that it is in the best interests of a child to offer puberty blockers early. It seems to me that both of these two are so deep into sunk cost that they’ve almost no choice but to keep sinking.
Barnes said: “That the committee would try to better in two hours what the Cass Review spent four years carefully investigating is incomprehensible.”
If even after the Cass review – even after all the sad, sometimes horrifying stories of people who’ve “detransitioned” – politicians still cling to the idea of gendered souls, what hope do school children have?
Hannah Barnes' article at the New Statesman on the WESC meeting – Are politicians trying to undermine the Cass Review?
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