Althouse: "Vulnerable children are wrongly being given gender hormone treatment by the NHS, Sajid Javid believes, as he prepares to launch an urgent inquiry."

April 23, 2022

"Vulnerable children are wrongly being given gender hormone treatment by the NHS, Sajid Javid believes, as he prepares to launch an urgent inquiry."

"The health secretary thinks the system is 'failing children' and... is understood to have likened political sensitivities over gender dysphoria to the fears of racism in Rotherham over grooming gangs.... Javid is said to be particularly alarmed by her finding that some non-specialist staff felt 'under pressure to adopt an unquestioning affirmative approach' to transitioning and that other mental health issues were 'overshadowed' when gender was raised.... Referrals have increased 50-fold in the past decade, with far more female-born children now coming forward in a reversal of previous trends.... 'The review has already come across a number of adults that were given these life-changing drugs as children and are now saying, "Why did you do that? Because that wasn’t my problem. I was sexually abused. I was being bullied,"' a health source said.... A senior government source said Javid believes 'far too many public figures have been avoiding [gender issues] for too long' but argued: 'There is a militant lobby that doesn’t want a debate.'... Some around him say the question has been likened to concerns he raised while home secretary about the failure to tackle child exploitation by gangs of predominantly British-Pakistani men in Rotherham. The senior government source said: 'There is the same theme of not being afraid to tackle issues that others might prefer not to talk about.'"

The London Times reports.

27 comments:

tim maguire said...: Is it too optimistic to feel the woke agenda is on the back foot? It’s too late for the many thousands of lives ruined by these mentally ill bullies, but untold numbers of future victims can be saved if the cultural, corporate and governmental elites stop pandering to them.; 4/23/22, 7:21 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: What does Disney have to say?; 4/23/22, 7:34 AM
wendybar said...: Child abuse. Pure and simple.; 4/23/22, 7:34 AM
TheDopeFromHope said...: Ruining children’s lives, that’s what the left does best.; 4/23/22, 7:40 AM
mezzrow said...: I bet he couldn't say that if his name was Nigel Smith and he looked like me.

I'd be on Gammoncam. People who care about being seen as the kind of person that shows up on Gammoncam just shut up. Most people who look like me, think like me, and live like me just shut up.

Look who winds up paying the price. Can you smell the fear? I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.; 4/23/22, 7:43 AM
Owen said...: This is child abuse compounded by an epidemic of mental illness and moral collapse. The mental illness is what Elon Musk calls a “mind virus,” in this case a swarm of memes around identity and gender and agency and “safe spaces” and “affirmation” that prohibits adults —highly educated adults in positions of trust and responsibility— from questioning, let alone correcting, these nihilistic programs of reshaping humanity.

It won’t end well. It’s already ending. I hope a lot of the authors go to jail or into permanent exile.; 4/23/22, 7:45 AM
Temujin said...: Wokeism is killing Western Civilization. We have a large population of people who know when they see something is wrong, not right, or not even acceptable, but they are afraid to say anything about it. And so it moves forward and grows. And it keeps growing with each instance of non resistance, or the crumbling of resistance to any push back at all.

We've done this with pronouns, gender confusion, Black Lives Matter vs All Lives Matter, Antifa, defund the police, and many many more policies that moved from absurd to State Approved seemingly overnight.

Good to see DeSantis and the Florida Legislature actually take a stand and throw it back at the Wokesters. Let's see how they handle a real fight. Over in the UK they've been accepting of mass grooming of their daughters for a decade or more now. That they would allow mass gender muddling is not surprising. What is surprising is that someone has the guts to fight back.; 4/23/22, 7:48 AM
Jaq said...: Castratos were banned because it became considered cruel. One day there will be a new 'plaster caster' to document this insane era so that it never happens again. Remember the children of Thalidomide? At least that wasn't intentional.; 4/23/22, 7:56 AM
Tom T. said...: If I am reading correctly, Javid is once referred to as "her" and once as "him." In an article about gender, no less.; 4/23/22, 7:59 AM
Quayle said...: Sacrificing children on the altar of a false God and religion is nothing new in the history of the world; 4/23/22, 8:11 AM
traditionalguy said...: Cloning people for profit is wrong.; 4/23/22, 8:21 AM
Jefferson's Revenge said...: This guy is a hero. We need more like him. Though it’s sad to think that common sense has become heroic.; 4/23/22, 8:31 AM
wildswan said...: Some of the background of this story is the story of Bruce Reimer, a boy who was raised as a girl as an experiment starting in 1965 by Johns Hopkins Doctor John Money of the American Eugenics Society. Money presented this boy's story as an example of the successful changing of gender. This initial experiment was very significant in the development of the present theories on gender. But the whole story stands as warning against simple acceptance of the theories. The Boy who was raised as Girl went back to being a boy but he did not receive real assistance in handling his primary condition - which was that his penis was cut off in a botched circumcision - or his secondary condition - which was that he spent his childhood filled with female hormones - or his tertiary condition - which was that his doctor was has theories about childhood sexual foreplay which were grotesque and which he forced this boy to enact with his twin brother. And so this boy grew into a man who failed at everything and shot himself at 35. This true history and its outcome was ignored in favor of John Money's published papers presenting it as a success. And this is one of the foundation experiments which led to present-day gender switching. John Hopkins closed Money's "clinic" but his spirit goes marching on.

As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (2000) Colapinto

David Reimer, 38; After Botched Surgery, He Was Raised as a Girl in Gender Experiment
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-may-13-me-reimer13-story.html

"David Reimer" Wikipedia; 4/23/22, 9:08 AM
Browndog said...: For decades, the public has been brainwashed into thinking there are two collectives that are the primary protector of children:

Women
Democrats

The opposite rule is undefeated.; 4/23/22, 9:16 AM
wildswan said...: It's my opinion that every girl in the world grows up knowing she can give birth to a child. Whatever she dreams of, whatever happens, all girls know this. What she does with the knowledge is central, regardless of what she does or what happens to her. The idea a boy becomes a girl by cutting off his penis and putting on a dress is a a boy's idea of a girl and it's a lot more ridiculous than Playboy's ideas about prostitutes enjoying themselves as much as the men.; 4/23/22, 9:29 AM
Narr said...: Islam is a pedophile's wet dream, and the UK is full of enablers.; 4/23/22, 10:22 AM
steve said...: I think this is child abuse. If an 8 year old boy tells his parents he feels like a girl some time, it's probably just a phase he's going through. Don't start him on drugs that could ruin his future health. If that same boy told mom and dad he wanted a Jack Daniels on the rocks, or a bottle of beer, they wouldn't give it to him would they? Most on the left would say that's absurd, but what's the difference?; 4/23/22, 10:40 AM
Jupiter said...: It certainly does seem like their are a lot of scum and vermin washing about in the gutters of the world, looking for children to prey upon. Some day a rain's gonna come ...; 4/23/22, 10:43 AM
Scotty, beam me up... said...: A senior government source said Javid believes “far too many public figures have been avoiding [gender issues] for too long” but argued: “There is a militant lobby that doesn’t want a debate.”
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This line from the article is referring to the situation in England. However, it describes perfectly what is happening here in the US. The transgender militants here are trying to shutdown those transgender people who have de-transitioned who are speaking out against the movement stating their issues were related to mental health, not that they were the wrong gender. Plus, I am concerned with the transgender Richard / Rachel Levine being the Assistant Secretary of Dept. of Health and Human Services with this person using their position to expand transgender services to our country’s youth without any restrictions on medical professionals to investigate whether these kids truly have gender dysphoria, mental health issues, plain confusion brought on by puberty, or even grooming by other people they associate with. I believe that Levine is akin to the “fox in the hen house” with our youth and transgender issues and was put into his/her position by “progressives” in Biden’s inner circle for this reason.; 4/23/22, 10:48 AM
Michael K said...: Of course no one wants to talk about it. Transgenderism is now a sacrament.; 4/23/22, 11:38 AM
Owen said...: At the risk of piling on, let me rant also about the notion of commitment. Like the old joke about ham and eggs, the hen is invested but the pig is committed. In this context, we have all sorts of loud, angry, eloquent (or at least glib) "activists" going on about the importance of Trans Actualization. They're invested. But are they committed? I don't want to hear another word from any of them who has not undergone the mutilation they so breezily recommend, and who has lived with the consequences for, say, a decade.

They're evil as well as stupid.

/rant; 4/23/22, 12:34 PM
n.n said...: Transgender spectrum (e.g. homosexual, bisexual, neogender) conversion therapy. We were told that it happened. NOW, we know that it does through medical, surgical, psychiatric, and corporate corruption and steering. They're playing with a double-edged scalpel when they sincerely believe that they can abort the baby for social, redistributive, clinical, fair weather causes, and have her, too.; 4/23/22, 12:39 PM
ccscientist said...: We do not let children smoke, drink, vote, buy a gun, sign contracts, join the army, marry, or even buy a lottery ticket. My friend's 4 yr old wanted to grow up to be a bulldozer. Kids have no idea about sex or being a parent in the future. They can't even imagine it. How can they be "believed" about wanting to be a different sex? They know nothing!; 4/23/22, 2:36 PM
Browndog said...: Michael K said...

Of course no one wants to talk about it.

Oh-

I thought you were going to bring up the suicide rates.; 4/23/22, 3:00 PM
Michael K said...: Blogger Browndog said...

Michael K said...

Of course no one wants to talk about it.

Oh-

I thought you were going to bring up the suicide rates.

I think everyone knows about them but does not understand why. Some topics like this are very hard to get honest data about.; 4/23/22, 5:36 PM
realestateacct said...: Some sanity pokes it head above the ground. More power to him and others willing to speak up.; 4/23/22, 10:39 PM
Tina Trent said...: Go Bromsgrove. Is there anything this man Javid can't do? Worships Thatcher; opposes BDS; lowered beer taxes; solely spoke out against the Rotherham grooming/rape/torture/murder and pimping of thousands of young white girls by Pakistani gangs; insisted its roots lie in Muslim and Pakistani attitudes, political power and white guilt; vehemently speaks out against anti-semitism; opposes the trans grooming of children sweeping society; rules that female hospital wards and prisons should not house transgender men; fights a nuanced case to defend British monetary interests with the EU; opposes illegal immigration, and defends free speech.

Too bad he's got the wrong friends in America. But you can't have everything.; 4/24/22, 7:28 AM