Uh…great. If you express concerns about the safety of trying to halt children’s puberties, you get fired. Hello yes hello but what if the concerns are real? What if the concerns are not a joke or a tease or a cunning plan to upset everyone, but actual concerns about actual risks of harm to actual children on the verge of puberty? What then?
The Health Secretary stripped responsibility for a puberty blocker trial from a junior minister who had raised safeguarding concerns, The Telegraph understands.
James Murray stopped Preet Kaur Gill, the minister for health innovation and safety, from taking a leading role on the controversial Pathways trial, according to people familiar with the matter.
Because she raised safeguarding concerns. Our children must not be hobbled by safeguarding concerns! They must take every possible risk no matter how likely they are to regret it a few months later.
The trial will involve 226 children who believe they are transgender being offered puberty-suppressing drugs, with girls as young as 11 and boys as young as 12 eligible.
Ms Kaur Gill, a former social worker and MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, has in the past voiced alarm that “credible safeguarding warnings” about puberty blockers were being ignored.
It’s amazing that it doesn’t slow the zealots down that they are offering drastic interventions to children who believe they are transgender. Why do they believe something so unreal? Because it’s been so heavily advertised and promoted and flattered over the last ten-plus years. Without all that children would just make the best of what can’t be avoided, as they always have.
Another source accused the Health Secretary of ignoring concerns not only from Ms Kaur Gill, but also from two other female health ministers said to have reservations about medicalising gender-questioning children.
“It shows women’s voices are still not being listened to on this issue, and that one man [Mr Murray] – who’s only been there for two seconds – is trying to push it through regardless,” they said.
Well you see it’s trans. Trans is sacred. Trans is special. Trans is family. Trans is Our Siblings. Trans is untouchable. Trans may not be questioned.
Ms Kaur Gill is not the first senior figure whose role on the trial appears to have been curtailed.
In March, the MHRA announced that its chief medical and scientific officer Prof Jacob George, whose safety concerns had led to Pathways being paused, would no longer be involved.
The agency insisted his recusal was voluntary, and said the decision was taken as a “precaution” after social media posts emerged in which he praised JK Rowling and criticised the denial of “basic biological fact”.
Yeah, we remember.
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