𝓤𝓷𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓝𝓮𝔀𝓼

Children cannot be born into the wrong body and it is high time for adults to say it loud and clear.

This should be an uncontroversial opinion. But children and teenagers are still confused and suffering.

An alarming new academic study has just found a 50-fold increase in under-18s identifying as transgender or reporting distress about their sex.

In this paper, GP’s records were analysed in the study and revealed that the number of reports rose from 200 to 10,000 in the course of a decade.

Although the research has just been published, its results end in 2021 and there have been significant reforms to protect children since then, giving hope to those who wish to see an end to this social contagion.

The gender service at London’s Tavistock clinic was shut down in 2022 after whistleblowers raised fears that children were being encouraged to identify as transgender and put on puberty blockers.

Last year, Dr Hilary Cass published her landmark review into the treatment of children who believe their sex and gender are not the same and found they had been “let down” and there was “remarkably weak” evidence to support treatments such as puberty blockers.

Even the ambitious Health Secretary Wes Streeting had a dramatic change of heart just a few weeks before the general election.

He admitted he no longer backed the phrase “trans women are women, get over it”. After taking office, he announced a permanent ban on the prescription of puberty blockers to under-18s.

The closure of a crank clinic, an exhaustive and authoritative expert report and a Labour Health Secretary ending the unnecessary medicalisation of children should have marked the closure of this distressing chapter.

In the US, President Trump said that his government would only recognise two genders – male and female.

But the last few weeks have shown that trans-extremists have not given up.

The Labour-dominated women and equalities committee held a session where it heard evidence from academics sceptical about the Cass Review.

One of the panel, Professor Simona Giordano, believes in an “affirmative approach” towards children who dispute they are the sex they were born.

This means agreeing with a child that they are whatever they say they are. Critics accused the committee of having a “political agenda” and suggested its aim was to reverse the ban on puberty blockers.

Meanwhile, Helen Webberley, a former GP with a private gender clinic in Singapore, also dismissed the Cass Review, claiming it was at odds with other research.

Incredibly, she told Rachel Johnson’s Difficult Women podcast that every transgender adult “started off life as a transgender baby”.

Johnson said when she was seven she “presented as a boy” and told everyone she was called Richard. She said everyone ignored her and after a while she “completely forgot about it”.

But Webberley said: “Puberty starts at nine… If we don’t get in there then, we are too late.”

For too long, parents have faced a form of emotional terrorism if their child says they are transgender. Schools kept information secret, while charities spread fear, warning that a trans child was better than a dead child.

Institutions colluded with the child’s beliefs instead of acting like a responsible adult by helping confused young people be happy with who they are or addressing the sexist stereotypes at the heart of trans extremism.

Some organisations allow children who say they are trans to use different toilets, changing rooms and accommodation.

Even the Child Protection in Sport Unit, part of the NSPCC and funded by sporting bodies, says decisions on mixed-sex changing rooms should be taken on a case-by-case basis.

The Conservatives began to get a hold on the issue in their final years in government. Department for Education guidance was issued in December 2023 that said teachers in England should tell parents if their child says they are a different gender at school.

It issued a separate draft guidance last May that said schools “should not teach children about the concept of gender identity”. Yet Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson refused to commit to implementing the policy during the election campaign.

She could secure a positive political legacy if she put an end to the trans-extremists grip on the institutions with responsibilities for children. Pushing back on this delusion would be a powerful and timely move.