Many of the young people presenting at gender clinics are likely to be gay, leading commentators to point out that gender-confirmation may be the new conversion therapy. A clinician told the Times last year: ‘Young lesbians considered at the bottom of the heap suddenly found they were really popular when they said they were trans‘. Tavistock ‘whistleblowers’ have expressed concern at how little confusion over sexuality is explored when a young person requests treatment to change their body. ‘I would ask who they wanted to have relationships with, but I was told by senior management that gender is completely separate to sex,’ a female clinician said. ‘I couldn’t get on board with that, because it isn’t. Some people were transitioning their gender to match their sexuality.’
I can think of a number of Conservative MPs who are probably delighted about this new form of conversion therapy. One of them buggered off to the Brexit Party.
Caroline ffiske has been excellent on this issue 