It is quite gratifying to see how unhinged some of the responses to Streeting are. You'd think these people would be smart enough to at least try to appear sane when responding to the secretary of state for health, but apparently not. Streeting is now getting a very very small taste of what Rosie Duffield has been through over the past few years.
I notice a lot of them accuse Streeting of taking notice of Rowling rather than medical experts - apparently completely oblivious to the Cass review, conducted by a respected paediatrician with a team of researchers over a period of several years. Are they really this stupid or deliberately distorting the facts?
I am feeling cautiously positive about Streeting's stance. Once we stop pushing medical interventions on vulnerable gender-dysphoric children and young adults, the whole trend for those children to "identify" as the opposite sex will come to an end, I think. They will simply grow out of it as they hit puberty, or at worst they will dye their hair blue and call themselves "non-binary".
If we lose the idea of the "trans" child who is born in the wrong body and liable to kill themselves without recourse to hormones, then it will be clear that what we are left with is a bunch of middle-aged blokes who derive a sexual kick from wearing a dress and flaunting their bits in women's changing rooms. That will, one hopes, be difficult for people like Annaliese Dodds and her colleagues to defend.