How can you be removed from a company you’ve founded?
I have to say I watched that Glinner video inviting Stewart Lee to a debate and my heart sank when I heard him cite the ‘1000 people’ suing the Tavistock -because it isn’t true or accurate. It was a lazy headline that should never have been picked up by any gender critical party. We always talk about critical thinking and the need for clarity and this ‘1000’ figure is just a nice round figure which should have set alarm bells ringing. And then anyone who repeats it looks like they haven’t given the matter the careful thinking it deserves.
This is NOT to say that the Tavistock aren’t going to get lots of lawsuits from previous patients and parents of previous patients. I am sure the law firm attached to this story have already been approached by many (not going to guess at a number). The quoting of this random number does not negate all the facts of the matter which are that the Tavistock was patently not fit for purpose and was failing its patients. It also doesn’t mean that anyone quoting this number is an Ill-informed bigot. It just means that in this instance they’ve been misguided in quoting a sloppy statistic and that’s something that people can use to try and blow a hole in their whole reasoning and argument. Of course that won’t work but it is bloody tedious to witness.
Anyway back to this guy and that grovelling, forelock tugging, self-flagellating apology by the CEO. The CEO is obviously s**ting themselves that their business is going to go down the pan. Not because their business is based on selling music to the trans community but because no one can be in business today and profess concern at depressed 14 year old girls wanting mastectomies. Nothing but full-on celebration of every single child wanting hormones to deepen their voice, grow beards, grow breasts etc… can be countenanced. You must celebrate the trans woman standing in a gossamer thin dress pouring piss all over themselves in a public thoroughfare. You must celebrate the teenager and their GoFundMe page gushing over their favourite plastic surgeon.
And look at the Daily Mail today with Jake and Hannah and their two children. A truly happy family who shine like a beacon to all trans people out there as to what is possible. Except in some ways their story is so unique. Jake needs to spell out the fact that if they’d gone on the Tavistock path as a pre-pubescent child they would never have been able to have any eggs harvested because they would not have experienced their female puberty. And if they had started taking testosterone much earlier in their lives and then suffered from vaginal atrophy, post-orgasmic pain, and then opted for a full hysterectomy (as is advised I believe after a number of years on T) they would not have had the eggs to harvest. Jake and Hannah are lovely, their kids are gorgeous and I wish them well. But they are beacons of hope to a subset of trans people - those who wait until full adulthood before physically transitioning. Which makes their association with Me*ds a tad disingenuous I think.