The recent debates on puberty blocker trials and so-called ‘conversion therapy’ that took place within the UK Parliament, constitute a pincer movement that attacks reality, and threatens safeguarding within institutions and families. They also open the door for the proliferation of ‘Gender Clinics’ (the perfect oxymoron for a medical condition which is not one), and widespread prosecutions, including outside the health services, for non-adherence to the spurious notion of ‘affirmative care’....

"We are rapidly becoming a nation sedated by mental health interventions that subtly teach us to accept and endure, rather than to stand up & challenge, the social & relational conditions harming us & holding us back." -Dr James Davies Why is it that many professionals seek to medicalise individual children and search for a psychological ‘diagnosis’ that takes the focus away from the active participation of adults in the fabrication of a fantasy that humans can change sex? In the first...