While I was writing about the latest scandalous revelation involving the children’s charity Mermaids and the Tavistock Gender identity development service (GIDS) it occurred to me that readers of these pages will already be familiar with the key planks of this terrible tale. You will doubtless have seen countless articles critiquing gender ideology and the medical treatments on vulnerable children over the years that have become normalised, and will be aware that gender ideology has seeped into pretty much every key institution in the land.
The consequences of gender ideology for women as well as children have been grave, as it has led to the push for men to legally be able to self-identify as women and invade single sex spaces such as refuges and Rape Crisis centres, prison wings, and changing rooms. It has also led to gender clinics handing out toxic hormones to children as though they were Haribos.
There should be real consequences for those that have allowed so many children to be pushed through this medical conveyor belt
Now it has been officially revealed what many of us have known for some time: the Tavistock has been taking instructions from the charity Mermaids. But bearing in mind the Tavistock has been treating many patients for what many now regard as an imaginary condition, it makes sense that it deferred to the maniacs who created it.
Hannah Barnes, the BBC journalist and author of Time to Think, says she had known since 2019 of emails between Susie Green and GIDS director Polly Carmichael because they were part of Mermaids’ data breach in 2019. This made it somewhat surprising when the Tavistock claimed to have no such emails when requested by way of a Freedom of Information request.
If only those that have become increasingly convinced that distressed and disturbed children have undergone unnecessary surgeries and irreversible hormone treatment had listened to those who had been warning of what was to come.
Twenty years ago, having become increasingly concerned about the notion that children could be trapped in the wrong body, I contacted the Tavistock to ask to speak to its then clinical director. I explained to the communications officer that I had assumed the diagnosis of ‘transsexuality’ would have been discredited by now, as many feminists and other people with common sense had recognised that it was based on a toxic form of sexism that dictates femininity for girls and masculinity for boys.
I was never granted an interview with the Tavistock. Nevertheless, my investigation was published in the Telegraph magazine and I recall several people that have since banged the drum for ‘trans rights’ and now consider me to be a raging Terf saying they thought it terrible that surgery and hormones were being used to correct what is clearly a mental health condition.
The following year, I published a piece in the Guardian Weekend magazine in which I reported on a trans-identified man that was demanding access to a female rape crisis centre in Canada. At the time of publication, the trans rights movement in the UK was gathering pace, and they were emboldened by a grovelling apology by the Reader’s Editor for publishing it in the first place. The consequences for me have been horrendous and continue to this day.
In the meantime, the feminist (and lesbian and gay) resistance to gender ideology and medical experiments on children has grown in strength and conviction. But this has come at a huge cost to those of us that have spoken out.
Women have been hounded out of their jobs, had their reputations trashed, become unemployable, lost friends, and colleagues, been silenced, publicly cancelled and shamed, made to feel like pariahs and bigots when all we were doing was trying to expose the biggest medical scandal in the past century.
Mermaids is but one player in this horror story. Unfortunately, there are many other ideologues, facilitated by the likes of Stonewall. Individual misogynistic men that claim to be on the left have promoted this ideology and in turn attempted to ruin the lives and reputations of the feminists that spoke out about the harm to women and girls.
While this has been going ahead, female prisoners – some of the most vulnerable women in society – have been raped and sexually assaulted by trans identified males, girls have been frightened in changing rooms when seeing male genitalia in what was supposed to be a safe space, and let’s not forget that countless children have undergone irreversible harm.
During evidence at a tribunal brought by Mermaids, it was stated that they were not medical experts and therefore did not advise anyone on healthcare. These emails show though the way in which Mermaids helped draft a service specification used by the NHS to treat children.
Those that push this dangerous ideology have been lauded by many liberals as the greatest social justice warriors. As this war comes to an end, and the trans extremists prepare to be defeated, let’s not forget the sacrifice of all of us that have fought to expose this monstrous situation. There should be real consequences for those that have allowed so many children to be pushed through this medical conveyor belt.
I won’t hold my breath, but I think it would be fair and proper for those that have supported and defended the practices of Mermaids and GIDS and have thrown insult such as ‘bigot’ at those of us that have attempted to expose the truth to offer their abject apologies. But those children harmed as a result of this pernicious set of beliefs are owed the biggest apology of all.
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