Chaos at the new Tavistocks

Is this…balanced reporting? From the Guardian?!

Do I need to pinch myself or has the Graun editorial team realised that they might not be on The Right Side Of History on this one?

It is a mess isn't it?
So many of our institutions have been compromised by trans ideology in terms of safeguarding children that they're now politically unable to speak out without demonstrating their previous culpability for pushing it.

For example, Ofsted were Stonewall champions. They left after Stonewall criticised them for failing to talk to primary children enough about trans issues - the messages were leaked. They now claim tackling these issues are outside their remit. Yet they openly pushed trans ideology at schools for some years, actually downgrading some primary schools for (amongst other things) not teaching about gender reassignment.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10931423/Ofsted-cites-lack-gender-identity-teaching-primaries-factor-inspection-reports.html

The same problem applies in the NHS, GMC, CQC, local & national government. A golden bridge to remedy this isn't enough. These organisations have openly promoted unsafe experimental medical care / unthinking social transitioning to vulnerable children at the behest of political activists. They're totally compromised and if they admit to their failings it will open a tsunami of lawsuits for their professional negligence.

This argument leaves me so cold. If you have a distressed child, regardless of the source of the distress, if there is a medical treatment pathway that requires taking drugs for life and potentially irreversible life altering surgery, and a non medical pathway that could see distress relieved via other mechanisms such as talking therapy, the default should ALWAYS be the latter, with the former considered only after non medical approach has failed.

This theory of sacred 'inner transness' needing to be realised is so toxic. This is a metaphysical belief, just like the existence of God it cannot be tested, so there is no possibility of proving or disproving this theory. Gender affirming care is religion rendered as western medicine. These are distressed, confused v likely gay kids. A small number may benefit from transition, but the vast majority, with the right support will be able to live happily in their bodies.

That’s a remarkably balanced article for the Guardian.

What a mess.

Aah we’re still not allowed to use the c word.

Sadly some vulnerable children will continue to get hormones from charlatans online. But if the charlatans are prevented from doing the same within the NHS maybe it will be easier to wake schools and social services to awareness that this is a serious safeguarding issue.

The trans lobby groups with unhindered access to the NHS and child healthcare are not giving up their power willingly - despite their lack of qualifications & their ideological beliefs as opposed to a child centred, safeguarding informed approach.
However the delays just mean that vulnerable children are now accessing the charlatans handing out puberty blockers online with the lobby groups still targeting children, despite the harm they're causing. Until leaders in government, the NHS & medicine start prioritising evidenced, safe healthcare for these vulnerable children, this will continue.

This is what happens when you shut down a place for being too messed up to be able to continue..... and send the people running it, with their policies, out to create lots of little satellite messes in the exact same image of the first big one.

They were told, and told, and told and told. But not dealing with angry difficult adults mattered more than actually protecting and caring for distressed children.

Frankly this is an illustration of the ongoing problems when healthcare is based in ideology rather than evidence, even when you try to rectify that a bit.