Many of us in the UK have looked on in horror at the phenomenon of childhood gender transition and the terrible and sometimes life limiting and negatively life changing effects of telling children the lie that they can change their sex. We’ve seen a horrific parade of damaged young people with unnecessary mastectomies, ruined fertility and non-functioning ‘new’ genitalia.
Whilst there is a reasonable argument to be made that there are a miniscule number of adults with gender identity issues that cannot be cured or made secure in their bodies by counselling and who may well find that transitioning is the port of last resort, children should be off limits for any sort of treatment for gender identity issues. This is because children have not finished growing either mentally or physically and tampering with that development whether surgically, chemically or by means of ‘social transition’ rarely ends up in a good place for a child. We would not trust a child with a firearm or a car or to buy and consume alcohol or tobacco, as children cannot comprehend the risks involved in these things, but our society has become so warped that we’ve allowed our society to become infested by those who believe that mutilating and drugging kids whose mental health issues manifest as gender dysphoria is the way to go.
In Britain’s socialised healthcare system, the National Health Service, the nature of the organisation lent itself well to it being unduly influenced by trans activists and it was so influenced. The idea that a person can be trapped in the wrong body, an idea that there is no solid scientific basis for and which is almost certainly psychological not biological, took off in the NHS big time and it’s likely that hundreds if not thousands of British children have been harmed by either puberty blocking drugs or gender transition surgeries that they did not need. The paediatric gender transition cult that sprang up in the NHS is almost as big a scandal as that of lobotomies. Sometimes trendy new treatments like paediatric gender transition or lobotomies end up harming the very people that the medics and others are purporting to cure.
Many Britons thought that this terrible era of physical and psychological harm being done to children in the name of gender ideology would have ended with the publication of Baroness Hilary Cass’s critical report into paediatric gender medicine. However this report had a bit of a worm in the bud about it and that was the report’s recommendation that there be a clinical trial of puberty blockers.
It was obvious from the start when Baroness Cass made the recommendation that there be a clinical trial of puberty blockers that this idea would be an ethical minefield. This is because it would have involved giving children in severe mental distress because of their delusions about their gender powerful drugs that would have severe negative effects on their natural development. A proper trial would also have seen other children given an placebo instead of puberty blockers. Many of us saw that the concept of giving these problematic puberty blockers to children in distress was an ethical red line that should not be crossed. There was no way of doing this clinical study into puberty blockers that didn’t end up with children being harmed and that should not happen.
But common sense and ethics has happily prevailed. The Medicines and Healthcare Regulation Agency (MHRA) has paused this plan for a clinical trial of puberty blockers. According to a Sky News report the Government has said that "new concerns directly related to the wellbeing of children" had been raised by the MHRA.
This plan to use psychologically disturbed children as human guinea pigs in order to test the efficacy of puberty blockers was also attacked by high profile women’s rights campaigners such as the Harry Potter author JK Rowling. They said that it was impossible for children to give meaningful consent to these treatments. In my view these campaigners are correct. It’s difficult to comprehend how a child wrapped up in a delusion with all the distress that brings could properly consent to treatments that may have profound negative effects on things such as their future fertility.
King’s College in London which was going to oversee the trial has also made a statement concerning the pause in this clinical trial. According to Sky they said: “ "The wellbeing and health of young people with gender incongruence and their families has been, and will remain, our priority, and we will continue to work with the MHRA to support their further review of the trial, which has been designed by world-leading academics with scientific rigour at its core.
"That rigour and ongoing scientific discussion is important for any clinical trial, particularly one as complex as Pathways, which aims to build an evidence base that can help young people and clinicians to make better-informed decisions in the future."
That statement looks a little like arse covering to me. King’s College may be as aware as others of the ethical dangers in this proposed trial and although they are calling it a pause it may be that this plan for a clinical trial gets completely abandoned and that’s what King’s College may understand is the end point for all this. They need to say something about the pause but they might not want to be explicit about the chances of this pause turning into a total end to the trial because of the issue of Britain’s increasingly violent and aggressive Trans Activist community. The announcement of the pause in the puberty blocking trial has of course brought out anger and aggression (quite male patterned aggression at that, interestingly) from various trans activists which gives some solidity to the idea that King’s College might be concerned about ideologically inspired violence from trans activists.
If the wellbeing of children is to be the highest priority when gauging puberty blockers then there’s no way on Earth should or could such a clinical trial go ahead. Let’s hope that this decision to ‘pause’ a quite unethical puberty blocker trial turns into a final end to this idea.
There are several lights at the end of the tunnel when it comes to the fight against gender ideology and the decision to pause the puberty blockers clinical trial is one of them. The Gender Mengeles need to be kept away from children and the decision to pause the puberty blockers trial achieves that aim.
Link.
Sky News reporting on the ‘pause’ in the puberty blocker clinical trial
https://news.sky.com/story/trial-into-puberty-blockers-for-children-paused-over-wellbeing-concerns-13510214