Trans ideology has no place in our schools
Young children need protecting from gender extremism.
The closure of the Tavistock gender clinic for children and young people, announced last week by the NHS, cannot be celebrated enough. Campaigners, former patients, ex-employees and parents alike have long expressed concern with the clinic’s practice of affirming the chosen gender identities of troubled children and its apparent enthusiasm for prescribing experimental puberty-blocking drugs. The end of the Tavistock marks a huge victory for common sense. But the fight to protect children from the grip of gender ideology is far from over.
While the Tavistock’s pernicious influence clearly extended far beyond its own building, it was not solely responsible for creating and perpetuating the myth of the transgender child. Indeed, on a practical level, the clinic could only treat children who were referred to its services. It did not generally ‘recruit’ young patients directly.