Professor who stopped puberty blockers trial has withdrawn because of liking JKR tweets

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The professor who intentionally halted a controversial puberty blockers trial has been withdrawn from any further involvement after accusations of bias.

Professor Jacob George, who was appointed chief medical and scientific officer at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in January, raised new concerns about the Pathways trial of puberty blockers in February.

Scientists and lawyers have since raised concerns over George's involvement, questioning crucial misunderstandings about clinical trials and medical law.

The professor intervened five months after the trial was approved by his colleagues and more than a month after it was set to start, raising concerns that included participants being as young as 10.

Yet the recent surfacing of a series of social media posts by George indicate a strong gender-critical stance, with an added admiration for JK Rowling.

In the now deleted posts, the professor slated the 'well-meaning idiocy' of the NHS through its denial to adhere to the 'basic biological fact' that gender is set at birth.

Article continues at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15601843/Professor-stopped-puberty-blockers-trial-withdraws-bias-row-JK-Rowling.html

Yes, and Channel 4 are blind to how biased they are as Transactivists.

must also carry out their roles in line with the civil service core values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.……

Quite. This is what he was doing g.

She is confused by ‘bekind’, by the idea that trans is the new issue to defend like being gay was previously, she is Channel 4’s go-to sympathetic abuse interviewer, she lacks depth of background knowledge, and can’t separate the issues.

For example does she know that some gender questioning children may even have been abuse victims so this is why they hate their own body?

What did his use of social media reveal beyond the fact that he believes in basic biological facts?

The same way I would be revealing my GC credentials. I would state anywhere, anytime, how terrific JK Rowling is. It tells you all you need to know about my beliefs, as it did with Professor George.
If one of the team stated TWAW anywhere, I would know their views. This really isn't rocket science.

How would you know? Do you know who the team are? If so, please post the names here so that we can see what they've posted on social media over the years.

Akua Rheindorf is to the point
https://x.com/akuareindorf/status/2027778681209315564

With sex & gender, you either believe sex is real & it matters or you don’t. You either believe in “gender identity” or you don’t. The only people with no opinion are those who’ve never thought about it. And they are by definition unqualified to make decisions about it.

Kiera Bell tweeted that Cathy Newman said to her outside the Royal Courts of Justice that Kiera had no sympathy for trans kids.

https://x.com/KBtheYoungOG/status/2027502330766082481?s=20

https://nitter.net/KBtheYoungOG/status/2027502330766082481#m

dr Jonathan fennelly barnwell is repeatedly stating their views very openly and yet oddly hadn't been recused x.com/wingsscotland/status/2027538581024104925?s=46

Righty-ho. So a man who understands that humans are born either male of female, and who was pleased to see the SC ruling that underpins that, and who expressed his agreement with JKR on the subject, and seems to abide by the rule of of 'do no harm' has been ousted.

And presumable you, @highame, support Max Davie who is delighted at the this. Dr Max Davie who is on the record saying:
'…we need to lift the ban on puberty blockers, which has no precedent, no foundation in the evidence, no ethical justification' and
'…social transition is a highly variable and individualised process that is … fundamental to the individual identity of the young person… This is why social transition tends to be the norm. It is wanted by children and young people and their families and is found to be highly beneficial.'
No concern at all, apparently, with all the detrimental effects shown to arise by medical intervention.

https://x.com/wingsscotland/status/2027538578117480624/photo/2
Jonathan Fennelly-Barnwell was the Deputy Director of Approvals at the Health Research Authority when the puberty blockers trial was approved. He's now the Interim Director.

It revealed he has a horse in the race.....by 'liking' tweets by JK Rowling and so on. To a trans activist that would be a clear case of 'taking sides'.

Channel 4 are biased in every predicatble way on every predictable issue in recent times. I gave up watching a few years ago, and never rated Cathy Newman even before that.

Sonia Sodha has written an article about the story:

https://soniasodha.substack.com/p/more-controversy-over-the-puberty

"Other journalists have shared screenshots of a small handful of other tweets - Seen in Journalism links to them here - that relate to women’s rights and the problems with allowing men to self-identify into women’s sports.

None of the X posts now in the public domain express views on the puberty blocker trial. They were all posted before Professor George took up his role at the MHRA. Unless there’s something they aren’t telling us, the MHRA’s decision to remove Professor George from any involvement in the Pathways clinical trial is very troubling indeed.

...During the pandemic, I wrote about the notion of “postnormal science”: science that takes place against a backdrop of great uncertainty and massive controversy. There are people with a strong ideological belief that gender-questioning children are children who have been “born in the wrong body” and who should be able to access medical interventions that try and adapt their body to their inner gender identity. Depressingly, this group includes doctors and clinicians. They have a vested interest in the kinds of questions that were posed in Professor George’s letter on behalf of the MHRA not being asked.

...Not all the reporting has reflected, however, that the MHRA has made no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Professor George. In its statement to me above, it explicitly says there is no evidence that any of his decisions lacked impartiality. Instead it has forced him to step back as “a precaution”.

This raises huge ethical and legal questions for the MHRA. Given there is no suggestion that Professor George has been partial in any of his decisions - indeed, the questions raised in his letter reflect the concerns of a large number of medics and clinicians - the only conceivable justification for ending any involvement he would normally have as a senior MHRA expert is based on perception. In other words, perhaps they are worried that someone who previously expressed the view that women’s rights are not served by men self-identifying into women’s sports before he took up his MHRA role, and who has in his professional capacity raised appropriate and well-founded concerns about a controversial trial, might make it look as though it is behaving partially.

This is a very weak argument for causing someone a serious employment detriment: removing them from doing an aspect of their job, and making a public statement to that effect. It risks opening up the MHRA to McCarthyite political manipulation by activists."

Dr Fennelley-Barnwell again who approved the PB trial when he was Deputy Director of Approvals.
Here he is liking a Facebook post about being a trans ally by Hazell Dean, the Patron of Pride In Surrey, whose founder Stephen Ireland was imprisoned for 24 years last June for the rape of a 12-year-old boy and other child sex offences.
https://x.com/WingsScotland/status/2027538587810504798

If i were a prominent public figure I'd steer well clear of twitter and social media more generally. No good can come of it.

This article from Wings Over Scotland shows how hypocritical this all is.

wingsoverscotland.com/two-men-unalike/

The trial was paused because of concerns expressed in a detailed, 4-page letter from The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.

I don't see any link between the causes for ethical and clinical concern raised by the MHRA, and Prof George's 'likes' or dislikes.

I still don't see bias.

Sponsor-letter110226.pdf

You are quite right Marie. This is typical TRA tactics - shout and obsfucate and be all "no smoke without fire!!!!" in the hope that behind the scenes they can manoeuvre the trial to go ahead

Catch-22.
Anyone who has enough understanding to realise how unethical blocking kids' puberty must be would have a professional duty to speak up about it.
Anyone who speaks up about it is deemed 'biased' and unable to be involved in stopping it.

Yet mysteriously devout believers in giving puberty blockers who have no justification other than the kids want it and may get it illegally if it's not given by the NHS - they're absolutely fine to be involved.

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Channel 4 should broadcast an update about the ‘other side of the debate’, i.e. the trans activist allies working on the puberty blocker trial who have not recused themselves.

Sorry but nobody as fas as I can see have pointed out how he is biased.

Like tweets by JKR doesn't change that he has a medical knowledge that led him to say the trials should be stopped. As did other people.

It just doesn't make sense.

Quite honestly it makes me have less faith in whatever is meant to happen now because this is clearly saying anyone with GC views cant take part. implying anyone with GC views will fake the results.

Is anyone really trying to say they are going to be able to get together a team of people with relevant skills and knowledge who have never ever thought, or spokent or liked a tweet in relation to whether or not someone can change their sex.

It is just bonkers.

There must be more to it.

Letter from Sex Matters to MHRA

https://sex-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/01032026-Letter-to-MHRA-re-Professor-George.pdf

Thank you for posting this.