My question was about ultra vires lobbying being a danger to democracy, the political process and the rule of law as it pertains to the Children Act (I cited the recent Dentons report) but MNHQ deleted it.
And yet it is such an important question. Detach this from the trans issue. Do we really want a political system where some things (any things, it doesn't matter what the issue is) can be lobbied for behind closed doors while public discussion of them is off limits?
I really recommend people read Merchants of Doubt (Amazon link in case you don't want to click). It's a fantastic book, documenting the techniques of lobbyists for big tobacco and big oil.
What it really needs is an extra chapter about what happens if you put that lobbying on steroids, by not merely doing it, but trying to suppress all discussion of the fact that it's going on (even to the extent of trying to make such discussion illegal).
Imagine if the tobacco companies had been able to use spurious arguments about privacy or commercial confidentiality to stop anyone revealing the fact that their product, when used as intended, killed about half of its users.