Update on the puberty blockers trial

I don't believe it is possible to conduct this trial ethically because you cannot know if the child would have changed their mind once they had gone through puberty.

I believe this is a reaction to the fact that parents are breaking the law importing these drugs, as that is effectively what Cass is saying in that article.

If parents want to harm their own children that's one thing. For the state to do it for them is quite another.

One of the biggest drivers behind all this has been WPATH and the pretence that its guidelines are evidence-based and represent some kind of agreed, universal standard of best care.

Glinner has an excellent piece today about WPATH's lies, and the infiltration of those lies into gender clinics worldwide:

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/they-knew

There is no medical case for puberty blockers. None at all. Gender medicine is completely fraudulent, and gender doctors have caused irreversible physical and psychological harm to thousands of children.

In time, in history..... people will look back at the trans phenomena and recognise that it took hold at a time in Western society when Individualism and an excessive focus on personal feelings was at its peak. When it was all about " being your best or true self": when individual self definition and personal expression was the supreme value.

It will also be seen to have arisen in response to technological and medical innovations - in which surgeries and pharmaceuticals as well as transhumanist fantasies took to the stage - in pursuit of the idea that we could "be anything we want to be"; we could rise above our human nature; that we were not our bodies; that we were, somehow, disembodied beings imprisoned in a "meat suit", not of our choosing. A sort of appeal to the transcendent urge that exists in all human beings, but one that arrived at a certain point in time in response to the social and cultural movements of that time.

The thing is, some parents are insane enough to think their little Johnny should be Johanna, and as things stand, they will go off to the HW butchery and source the drugs.
The only bright spot I see in this is that when it is shown the PBs cause harm, rather than just 'no clear benefit', maybe that would be sufficient to stop some of them doing that in the future?
Some kids are going to get harmed, maybe this way it might be fewer longer term? I kind of wondered if that is what Cass has been hinting at.

I wonder who will be Health Secretary now, and might this change the direction of travel for the trial?

That.

We sacrifice the kids who would have grown up ok, because the tiny number of special higher caste humans benefit.

We sacrifice women because a small number of special higher caste men 'benefit', although at that point 'benefit' becomes a really dodgy word.

And that this is not going to end well for anyone, those special caste people included, doesn't seem to be a reason to pause and think.

The truth is there is no such thing as 'true trans'. People have regrets about surgical transition at all ages, and even into their later years - and many come to desist altogether; some going to quite extreme measures to have reconstructed genitalia ( See Netflix documentary: 'Regretters')

Nobody is the opposite sex to that which they are. That is a simple fact. A lot of time, effort and emotional bandwidth goes into assuming a cross sex identity - it does not come naturally. If it was natural you wouldn't need to take drugs; have radical surgeries, or go out of your way to present in such a considered way. You wouldn't need to demand 'pronouns' or special treatement. Nobody would doubt or question your actual sex.

Feelings and self image are not, and never will be, an objective measure of your identity as a human being, for the reason that identity only makes sense in a social context. It requires an acknowledgement or recognition from other people, and from society at large. Sex is fundamental to the organisation of human societies on Planet Earth. It is not something you get to choose.

he was completely silent on how they will be able to select the tiny minority who will remain trans into adulthood?

Because in trans ideology, it doesn't matter. Any number of sacrificed non-trans kids is worth it for even one "true trans" kid to be treated. Self-centeredness is the name of the game.

To be fair, there is a big issue with antibiotics being over-prescribed often under pressure from patients or parents of patients and for conditions which have no hope of being resolved with a dose of antibiotics. Plus, whilst they can be lifesaving they can also do a lot of harm when mis-used.

I just watched the parliament debate. It was infuriating. The whole system is clearly captured by ideologues. The health sec kept saying that he accepts that most children will resolve their gender issues when they go through puberty but he was completely silent on how they will be able to select the tiny minority who will remain trans into adulthood?

But that is assuming that all the associated brain and skeletal development just picks up where it left off and I'm not sure that they are certain this happens. It scares me that these kids must somehow remain in an immature psychosocial state while getting chronologically older, so that they remain behind their peers throughout that critical stage of adolescence where social development changes rapidly. How do they catch up with that? They might have been on puberty blockers since say 11, so do they remain developmentally 11-ish (?) until they transition to cross sex hormones, let's say at 17-18, and then go through a chemically induced "puberty" (of the wrong sex) while all thier friends have been through a normal adolescence, and spent a few years developing normally so that there is this invisible psychosocial maturity gap that means they will never really be on the same wavelength as their peers? How does it work? Do we even know? So do they start adulthood years behind thier actual age, and then because they have multiple health problems they are disadvantaged again, and then there is the fact that no-one wants to acknowledge which is that the majority of people won't buy into the premise that they have changed sex, so they will be marginalised and angry for the rest of thier lives. Sounds like a nightmare.

I think you're right that there has been a complacency within feminism thinking that the battle for women's rights is already won

Also, intersectionality meaning that just being a woman wasn't seen as 'enough' of an oppression. So you can get bollocks like Amnesty claiming that transwomen are the most oppressed kind of woman, and a whole load of feminists just nod along

I'm already a religious heretic after rejecting my childhood and youth church, so I might as well keep going 😂

Same! I also was brought up in a religious household and am an atheist as an adult

I really do see a lot of similarities between gender ideology and religion. For example, the belief that de-transitioners were "never true trans" = Calvin's "persistence of the saints" (true believers are predestined to be saved, so anyone who loses their religious belief never had genuine faith in the first place)

Strange how the puberty blocker trial seems to be the most popular of the Cass report recommendations. Presumably because it's the one that gives a veil of science and respectability to gender ideology

https://x.com/i/status/2069152994390634691

I have to disagree with "It's not normal ethical practice to give children drugs for their mental health that we have reason to believe will damage their physical health or fertility or cognition in later life."
That is true for boys but not for girls.
We put lots of teen girls and younger on the pill as a mental health treatment - for mood swings, for being overly tearful etc. Some GPs even now refuse to consider antidepressants until multiple versions of hormonal contraception have been tried, in case it is all down to puberty hormone swings.
This happened to me, and it definitely damaged my long term physical and mental health.
We need to be much more vigilant about what drugs are given to kids across the board, and to demand more trials for the commonly used drugs (like contraception, antibiotics etc) being used at young age groups.

Children as young as six on gender care waiting list
More than 250 primary age children in line for treatment at NHS clinics, figures reveal
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/22/children-young-as-six-gender-care-waiting-list/

Also at https://archive.is/doM6s

https://x.com/i/status/2069121002521452841

I think that she would show the same lack of interest, sadly. She is not women-centred politically, despite being a 'feminist'.

Heh. Not saying that's necessarily the case for your family member (though she certainly fits the profile), but some feminists have adopted being pro-Muslim as one of their causes. Which obviously leaves them in some very awkward position when the treatment of women at the hands of Islamist regimes is mentioned...

@Seethlaw True. I would say that it's because feminism has become the omnicause, defending everything and anything - except women's rights.

I was chatting with a very 'progressive' US family member at the weekend, who truly believes that she is a feminist. She was very vocal about how wrong Trump's war with Iran is (and I agreed with her there) but she was blissfully unaware of the plight of women in Iran and not really interested in engaging with the topic when I tried to explore it. She uses feminism as a weapon to wield against the Right, and that's its only purpose for her.

Ha! You are a heretic 😁

I'm already a religious heretic after rejecting my childhood and youth church, so I might as well keep going 😂

Do you think it is a conscious realisation amongst TRAs that it is 'us Vs them'? It does seem like it to me.

Well, we know that some very powerful and influencing people have set it up that way for sure, going right after women's rights. So yeah, I do think that some TRAs are consciously aware of it, and quite a few others subconsciously act on it. The misogyny coming off from so many TRAs is probably a mix of personal inclination and taught anti-women ideological beliefs.

Whereas I think the young women I know who see themselves as trans allies genuinely don't think there IS any clash between TRA demands and women's rights. They seem to genuinely think women like JK Rowling are just nasty bigots

True. I would say that it's because feminism has become the omnicause, defending everything and anything - except women's rights. Women's rights in Western countries are acquired, you know? They are set in stone, there's no need to fight for them anymore (abortion in the US being the one marked exception.) Now feminism is about defending all the other minorities, and most especially trans people. So women like JKR are out-of-touch dinosaurs, who hail from a defunct era of feminism, and end up fighting against modern feminism.