Ok so I’m trying to find an explanation of what people mean when they talk about “gender incongruence.” Why am I doing that? Because of the new plan for a new study into are blockers bad or are they perfectly ok provided you read the directions carefully.

Two studies to investigate the impact of puberty blockers in young people with gender incongruence have been announced by researchers in the UK after an expert view said gender medicine was “built on shaky foundations”.

Oh they’ve noticed, have they? Could they not then just call a halt and do the studies with a calm mind? No, because gender fiddling always has to be done right away, just in case it turns out not to be a good idea. At least that batch of kids will be capt treated before the meddlers get a chance to protect take their precious blockers away.

Puberty blockers were originally used to treat early onset puberty in children but have also been used off-label in children with gender dysphoria or incongruence.

I’m not quite clear on what “children with incongruence” are.

I suppose if I have to pick a meaning I would guess incongruence=feeling that one is more like a girl than a boy or (more rarely) vice versa. But it’s not very satisfactory, is it. People “feel” a lot of things. People “feel that” a lot of things. It’s part of being human. We don’t just obediently roam the Savannah picking up coconuts or chasing down giraffes as appropriate to our species – we ruminate on What We Are and What We Feel and Do They Match.

The problem is that much of this ruminating is stupid, and the trans version of it is the stupidest of all. That, I suppose, is what “gender incongruity” means – a silly bloated doctrine woven out of the complaints of lots of people about how this skirt or this moustache or this speeding ticket just doesn’t feel right somehow. It could all just be We’re in a mood and we don’t like how we look in this rag, but that’s not interesting enough. It has to be something more impressive and elegant than just grouchy “I hate those shoes.” The Good Witch of the North Seminar came up with incongruence, and we haven’t stopped playing with the new toy since.

Excuse me, I got a little carried away there. New study on blockers, so that whole new set of kids can be ruined for life. Reason for new study: better understanding of “gender incongruence”. What does that mean? It means people are silly enough to think that if they do something coded girly while a man they have gender incongruence, whereas if they do something coded boyish while a woman they have gender incongruence. It sounds so nice, don’t you think so?