An explosion’: what is behind the rise in girls questioning their gender identity?

SallyLockheart - child safeguarding, ethical medical practice and evidenced medicine are transphobic dog whistles dontchaknow?

I’ve just re read the article. Whilst it is good the subject is starting to be aired at the Guardian it feels as though the author has been “restrained” by guardian boundaries. For example the article states that the reasons the Tavistock was closed was because of unbearably long waits for patients. NO. It was closed because it was deemed unsafe and the service it provided was adequate.

Transgender Trend:

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I'm with Janice.

It'll be good for some to read that article but I suspect there will be boundaries set by the guardian that will never be crossed.

As I always say, it pays to write letters. For some unknown reason the GC ones tend to get more of a showing on their letters page on a Saturday 😉
And possibly worth pointing out the omissions pour encourager more coverage 😀

Amelia Gentleman is a great journalist.

I feel this is a huge step in the right direction, I agree that they need to break this to their readers gently. There are obvious omissions from the full picture, however, it's taken hundreds of MN threads to cover most of those aspects in depth and what I want to see isn't one exhaustive article (then nothing else about it), I want them to cover each of these things separately, in all the depth they require, with detailed investigative reporting, scientific evidence, and the perspectives of those harmed, for every single issue that hasn't been covered in this article and every issue she's touched on (like puberty blockers). I want lots and lots of articles. One article can be missed/scrolled past. Dozens of articles on different aspects will catch more people and bring more awareness.

Tl;dr: This is a real watershed for the Grun, I look forward to them working on more within this area.

Amelia Gentleman's work on Windrush is unflinching in calling out the devaststing effects of ideology at the Home Office on people's lives. I hope this is the start of more in-depth journalism from her on this topic. She wouldn't be short of material!

Janice Turner again:

twitter.com/victoriapeckham/status/1595880971349512193?s=46&t=sM0KfjqVMeNyGHYZKcjV0w

The TRAs are going to lose their shit. The Holy Bible of Gender Woo has printed heresy

FINALLY

Fgs

But why did Suzanne Moore and Hadley Freeman have to be hounded out before they got there.

Still lack credibility to me

But it's a step in the right direction

Gentleman is a serious investigative journalist and this felt like a precursor to more to me.

Amusing new "birth registered female" phrase rather than the utterly bullshit "assigned female at birth". I presume this is the new "we never said 'born in the wrong body'". They know the stupid language is catching them out.

What I missed the most in that article is the infamous line that pushed many parents to either go along and be celebrated as brave and awesome and others into silence for fear to be called bigot, judged the opposite to brave and awesome and for any backlash: better a son than a dead daughter.

Blackmail on suicide statistics put the fear of Goddess in many parents mind. It was a way of grooming the adults.

Good to see this covered, and thoughtful work from Amelia Gentleman.

If you've been a remote observer of the big court and tribunal cases recently, you might have noticed "Amelia Gentleman" in the list of other observers.

I agree @RoyalCorgi However hesitant they may be, however far behind they are trailing, even the Guardian seems to be putting two and two together.

People I want to read this article, in no particular order:
Billy Bragg
Ash Sarkar
Owen Jones
Helen Islan
Suzie Green
The Liberal mp who can see souls
Dawn Butler
Nicola Sturgeon
Patrick Harvie
Ruth Hunt
Etc etc

what is behind the rise in girls questioning their gender identity?

Grooming

Janice Turner is not impressed:

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An excellent article it may be but can someone remind me when this was first reported...2018?

I'd like to count how many years went by before the Guardian covered this.

We all know that what is fuelling this is the constant messaging of this ideology by organisations that should know better and be more responsible. BBC and NHS and the entire education system.

If I look at a photo from my school days we’d all be classed as trans. 1 Lesbian between us, all happy women. Society is making normal girls think they need to change into something they are not.

IT HAS TO STOP.

Yes it could be a drip drip rayon but I thought that about WH and they've been shites this week,

More analysis than I've ever seen in the Guardian before, but zero references to harm of binders and mermaids' influence there (one girl mentions "pain in ribs still there") and zero references to growing numbers of detransisters.

The analysis cited parental opinions of triggers but not descriptions from detransitioners of sexism, misogyny, puberty, online influences including porn (for both sexes).

The Guardian has been giving their readership half the story on this for so long I can imagine they need to gently drip feed the facts to them a bit at a time, so they don't trigger all the collective cognitive dissonance out there.