Tough talk, no action on trans activist policy
by Josephine Bartosch, The Critic:
While ministers wriggle out of responsibility, children are suffering.
Perhaps it’s a result of too much partying, but the government appears to be having some sort of breakdown when it comes to transgender identity politics. On the one hand, ministers are talking tough about exorcising the spirit of woke from government bodies; on the other, the departments they head are busily bending policies into pretzel shapes and spaffing public money on dodgy equalities initiatives.
Take Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who last month promised a review into the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which runs England’s only NHS child gender services (GIDS). Much to the delight of many worried parents and anguished detransitioners, he slammed GIDS as “bordering on ideological” and “failing children”. Javid promised an inquiry, though details have yet to be announced.
It is high time the service was investigated. Despite whistleblowers, court cases and devastating testimony from former patients, senior leaders at GIDS have escaped accountability for more than a decade. Clinicians on the ground have repeatedly reported that underlying issues, including homophobic bullying, sexual abuse and other traumas have been systematically overlooked. Trans lobby groups enjoyed cosy relationships with management while staff raising concerns have risked career-ending smears of transphobia.
Read also: Trans activists hound Nadhim Zahawi off university campus chanting ‘Tory scum’ and accusing him of ‘inciting hatred’ by defining women as ‘adult human females’ by Jessica Warren, Mailonline
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