by Jim Chimirie on X
There’s a sickness deep in Britain’s institutions – a refusal to learn, a refusal to stop, a refusal to put children before ideology. We were told Tavistock was the great scandal. We were told the Cass Review would draw a line under it. We were told the ban on puberty blockers was the moment the country came to its senses. Yet here we are again: the NHS preparing to put eight-year-olds on the same drugs it once called unsafe, all in the name of “research.” Call it what it is – the return of a discredited experiment, dressed up as science, carried out on children too young to understand the harm and too trusting to resist.
This isn’t a medical trial. It’s a moral collapse. The Health Secretary bans puberty blockers for “unacceptable safety risks” and then signs off on a study that will inject them into more than 200 children. You can’t square that circle. Either the drugs are unsafe – in which case using them on children is grotesque – or the ban was political theatre and the trial is the truth. In both cases, the child pays the price. Officials can hide behind clipboards and committees, but the contradiction is fatal: no civilised country calls a drug too dangerous for routine care and then gives it to primary school children.
We’ve seen this story before. Tavistock lived off the same delusion – that you can override biology with ideology, that you can halt puberty without consequence, that children in distress can be steered into a medical conveyor belt and come out whole. The tragedy is that we already know the results. We know the bone loss. We know the cognitive decline. We know the infertility warnings. We know that once a child is put on blockers, 98 per cent go on to cross-sex hormones. We know the detransitioners, with their broken bodies and their unanswered questions. We know the whistleblowers who were ignored. And we know the evidence Cass uncovered – “remarkably weak” to the point of farce.