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Ambitious Wes Streeting is doing a good job of presenting himself to the public as a voice of reason in this crackpot Labour government. The Health Secretary has gone to war with junior doctors over their eyewatering demands for a 26% pay rise just one year after securing a 29% hike. When schemers in No 10 briefed to the press that he was a plotter trying to destabilise the government, Streeting toured the television studios sounding eminently reasonable, just a loyal colleague who had been the victim of unfair smears.

But slipped out amid all the chaos and noise was a written statement from Streeting last month setting out how 226 children will be used to trial puberty blockers. Children as young as ten will be experimented on with one group given puberty blockers for two years, while another other will receive them after a one-year delay.

The Conservatives say it “grotesque” and described the plan as “state-sanctioned chemical castration”. Children with autism and neurological disorders will not be banned from taking part.

The drugs were originally developed for children who were going through puberty early but then started to be prescribed to youngsters who believed they were born in the wrong body.

Last year Streeting banned the widespread use of them but says this plan would “provide better evidence for how the NHS can support and treat young people with gender incongruence”.

Campaigner Keira Bell, who was put on puberty blockers and later cross sex hormones, permanently affecting her life, is leading a campaign to stop the trial alongside psychotherapist James Esses.

Bell believes the trail, run by King’s College London, is unethical and children “are essentially going to be harmed”.

She told the BBC: “I didn’t know that I was essentially trapping my own mind from developing, because puberty doesn’t happen in a vacuum – it’s your whole body, it’s your brain sending signals to your body. So I didn’t understand any of that.

“There are children who have already been down this pathway – I’m one of them. Why aren’t we doing follow-ups with people like me?”

Esses made the point that some of the children who are going to be taking part in the trial are “not even old enough to open a current account or open a Facebook profile”

Why is the Health Secretary sanctioning medical experimentation on vulnerable young children instead of focusing on helping them accept who they are?

This is the sort of horror that is more traditionally associated with a fascistic regime.

Young children will become little more than lab rats sacrificed to pacify the trans extremists.

Streeting was once a staunch defender of the movement, insisting “trans women are women, get over it”.

But as Labour was months away from power, Streeting said he had been wrong to make the comments and the issue had “lots of complexities”.

Earlier this year the Supreme Court ruled that men could not become women, a decision that female campaigners hoped would put the madness of the previous few years to bed once and for all.

But nurses are still being forced to pursue cases through the court arguing they should not have to share changing rooms at work with biological men, even if they do wear a dress and go by a female name.

Streeting should order the NHS to fold in such cases in England, where he is in charge.

In Scotland this week, an employment tribunal found the nurse Sandie Peggie had been harassed when she was forced to use the same room as trans woman Beth Upton.

But other parts of the case were dismissed and the tribunal stated that trans women are no more of a threat to women than biological women.

As if that wasn’t baffling enough, the judgement has now had to be amended because it contained a made up quote, thought to have been created through the use of AI.

Peggie has since announced she will appeal, telling reporters the judgment “falls short in many respects and that is why I certainly won’t be giving up this legal fight any time soon.”

Nurses in Darlington are still awaiting the judgment in their case after they raised objections to changing in front of a married man who goes by the name of Rose Henderson.

Jennifer Melle, who was suspended for calling a transgender paedophile “Mr”, is still waiting for her hearing to conclude.

If Streeting wants to prove his dramatic conversion on the trans issue is more than lip service as he rises up the greasy pole, he should ban all experimentation on children and back our nurses in their fight for privacy and dignity.