AIBU to think puberty blocker trial is child abuse?

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Have we not learnt from Tavistock closure?

How sad for him. Has his mother been prosecuted?

No, until recently I would have said she was more likely to end up in the House of Lords than in the dock. Fortunately she made a number of mis-steps at Mermaids when she was running it (data breach, Trustee appointed without checking his social media and he turned out to have some extremely dodgy views about children and sexuality, staff unrest about the way the place was run) and she left. She worked for Helen Webberley for a very short time but something went wrong there. Last heard of bewailing the puberty blocker ban and talking about ways it could be circumvented. Busted flush, I hope.

Ah. Just googled her.

"Susie Green (born 1957) is the former chief executive officer of Mermaids, a British advocacy organisation for gender variant and transgender youth. She was dismissed on 25 November 2022 after six years of service because the trustees had lost confidence in her ability to lead the organisation.

Green lives in Yorkshire. She has four adult children, including twins, with her husband Tim. In 2017, Green presented a Ted Talk discussing the journey to get gender-affirming surgery for her eldest child at age 16 in Thailand. Green met members of the British royal family at an event to acknowledge the contribution of those working in the mental health sector in the UK."

• Transition: With her mother's support, Jackie began receiving puberty blockers at 14 in Boston and underwent gender affirmation surgery in Thailand at 16, becoming one of the youngest people in the world to have the operation.

So rather than experiment on new children, why don't they assess the outcomes of all children that already took puberty blockers? Sorry if anyone feels that's a stupid question. It isn't stupid to me.

Parliament is going to debate the petition “Cancel the clinical trial into puberty blockers & safeguard vulnerable children”.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/751839
The debate is scheduled for 9 March 2026.

Time to contact your MP and ask that they attend the debate and represent the views of their constituents on this important issue.

They won't go through any puberty at all. They grow older, and they will reach the age of consent; but they don't actually grow up. They remain children in a mutilated body.

Who will benefit from this? It certainly won't be the children.

Could everyone who found puberty exhilaratingly wonderful please step forward? No one, no one ever enjoyed it.

Who will benefit from this? It certainly won't be the children.

Well, quite. There's an awful lot of wanting to make a caste of permanent boy-men ...

Well done to everyone involved in campaigning against this experiment on children, I hope that it is 'paused' for good.
It was great to see this story covered yesterday at BBC News at Ten by Hugh Pym and not some self proclaimed LGBTQ+ expert. It's our children's health that's at stake here, it is absolutely right that it is covered by a Health journalist.
Puberty blockers trial paused after MHRA raises safety concerns - BBC News

Thank you for sharing.

I hope for the research on children, using them as guinea pigs is never started. Pausing is good but not using children in this abusive way is even better.

Thank you for sharing this story.

Even if there were ‘favourable outcomes’ I would still be against it; because the concept of ‘transgender’ is harmful to wider society, so there’s no point saying you can have puberty blockers as a child and begin the journey only to not be what you identify as as an adult.

Either we accept people can identify as the opposite sex, or we don’t. If we don’t then there’s no point in experimental treatments.