Should we protest the Pathways trial?

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Jane379 · 04/08/2026 00:04

I mean in a boots-on-the-ground, public protest sense.
From what I've read, maybe the judge didn't have much choice since the legal room to judge that it shouldn't go ahead was narrow.

But it would have never got to this stage if the safety of puberty blockers and the factual basis of gender identity hadn't been lied about in so many studies.

And legally, it should not have been possible to judge this kind of trial as OK to go ahead. How can children this age understand what it means to lose fertility, bone density, brain maturation, orgasm function, not to mention the possibility that the dysphoria will be locked-in by puberty blockers when it might otherwise have gone away? How many adults who support this understand what the consequences are?

Does anyone else want to protest publicly?

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TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 04/08/2026 06:14

I think there's a large amount of protesting going on and it hasn't made much of difference, so I'm not sure what an actual protest would accomplish. Parliament on its annual extended break and after that it's conference season, a picket outside the conference's might be an idea. The MSM will be there to cover the conference but there's no guarantee that they'll report it, they seem to be hand in glove with the political classes.

highame · 04/08/2026 07:19

Who's the 'we'

MarieDeGournay · 04/08/2026 13:48

Jane379 · 04/08/2026 00:04

I mean in a boots-on-the-ground, public protest sense.
From what I've read, maybe the judge didn't have much choice since the legal room to judge that it shouldn't go ahead was narrow.

But it would have never got to this stage if the safety of puberty blockers and the factual basis of gender identity hadn't been lied about in so many studies.

Does anyone else want to protest publicly?

I'm not in the UK so I don't have anything to say about organising public protests - sounds good,though!

More generally, I have a feeling that the bare facts could be very peaking for 'no opinion' people: physically healthy children being given something which may harm them, in order to find out if it is harmful... ?

It's hard not to perceive that as anything other than experimenting on children who are not sick, to test a treatment which is highly contested, and which may be harmful. Not a great look.

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