It sounds to me as though this man had been an advocate of transsexuals. He clearly has compassion, sympathy and a deep understanding of gender dysphoria.
And now he's seeing the people who transition for dodgy reasons all claiming the label trans and seeking treatment.
And his questioning has produced the predictable backlash.
On here, this exact conversation has been going on for several years and I'll say this for Justine Roberts, she has allowed the conversation to flourish. When I realise quite what sort of pressure she must been under to stop it, I for one, am intensely grateful.
Although James Campion focuses on what I think he believes is social contagion/pressure in young women, I can't help wondering whether he also disagrees with cross dressing as a motive to transition.
He's been at the forefront of the movement for years. He must have known that originally AGP was deemed an unsuitable reason for prescribing drugs. And how that has now changed, due to the unquestioning approach to motivation.
And, like everyone else, he has found that the slightest wavering from the party line, will produce a backlash of mammoth proportions.
Given how much of this ideology simply does not bear scrutiny, people will, inevitably, ask questions. However long it takes. Eventually someone will innocently say hang on a minute. And there are very many people in this world for whom bullying tactics will have the opposite effect to the one they're designed to produce.
There's been a reassuring snowball effect lately. That every time someone asks a question the reaction from transactivists to shut that question down, produces two more questions.
The most distressing part of that article is that there are enough female detransitioners told a bloody convention.
Transactivists online have been banging on about how he was denied the research because there weren't enough detransitioners.
Their mendacity is allowing so much harm to proliferate, that sympathy is running out everywhere.