John Humpreys on free speech and trans gender

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www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8058411/JOHN-HUMPHRYS-fear-mob-doctors-speak-freely-fears.html

Extract:

I interviewed a young woman for the Today programme last year who decided in her early teens that she was really a boy. So she was put on medication to stop her periods. A few years later, she was a trainee GP and decided to have her breasts removed.

At the last minute — just weeks before the operation — she realised she had made a terrible mistake and did not want to change her gender after all.

So she still has breasts but, she told me, little hope of ever having a baby. The drugs had done their work. She bitterly regretted what she had done and may well do so all her life.

The consultant told me there are many similar cases. Her fear is that we have allowed pressure groups and trans activists to take over. To control the debate. Many share that fear.

So would she allow me to use her name if I reported what she’d said? No, she would not. And I can understand why.

Well according to Ireland's leading doctor at the Transgender Clinic, very few people suffer regret -the figures are exaggerated - he was insinuating that bad people use these stats to try to stop people being their true selves. I posted about his interview on another thread.

In the words of Mandy Rice Davis ‘well he would say that wouldn’t he?’

The good thing about this is that there's becoming a veritable torrent of people making similar comments. The open bullying and silencing of free speech is starting to be challenged. Long overdue.

But it literally never happens. No one grows up and thinks that's not who I am.

It’s too late to save the fertility or health of those poor kids who have been led down the puberty blockers/hormones/binders/surgery route, but one can only hope a multimillion pound class action lawsuit by future detransitioners will stop this child-abusing medical gravy train in its tracks.

Good for him.

Not sure I agree with him that holocaust denial should be illegal though. How will that help explain to new generations what the reality and actual evidence is? Surely best tackled in the open. Would be interest in the views of someone like David Baddiel on that one.

Re Mandy Rice-Davies the quote is ‘well he would, wouldn’t he’

Oh wow. Poor woman.

Good on John.

I don't want to be one of 'those feminists' again, but, sheesh, John. Never occurred to you to challenge the BBC editorial line while they were paying your wages and pumping out Anti-Woman, pro medicalization of kids puff pieces and discounting the mostly female voices speaking up about it?

I mean yeah, obligatory 'thanks for speaking up now' kudos etc, but jaysus wept, how can you be face to face with a young woman so damaged by this ideology and keep schtum? As a serious, respected journalist?

Yes, you are absolutely right as usual floral.

While I like the bbc for many things, it's censorship is fucked up.

I’d like to hear from JH the degree to which he tried to challenge the editorial line when employed by the BBC. I find it difficult to imagine there weren’t discussions and surely he wouldn’t have held back in private?