Category: Puberty blockers

  • FTC boss to detransitioners: Your Voice is Heard

    FTC boss to detransitioners: Your Voice is Heard

    It’s quite a coup to get one serving member of any government to a Genspect event let alone two. I have written up the views of Admiral Christine, Donald Trump’s Assistant Health Secretary, who gave the keynote speech at this year’s Life Beyond Transition conference in Washington DC. The second member of the Trump administration…

  • US Health Admiral: gender surgery must be ‘eradicated like the plague it is’

    US Health Admiral: gender surgery must be ‘eradicated like the plague it is’

    Donald Trump’s Assistant Secretary for Health today vowed he would “not stop” until the “barbaric practice” of gender surgery for children in the United States is “eradicated like the plague it is.” Admiral Brian Christine was speaking on Thursday at Life Beyond Transition 2026 – a one-day conference bringing together the largest ever gathering of…

  • Tavistock whistleblowers call for immediate halt to puberty blocker trial

    Tavistock whistleblowers call for immediate halt to puberty blocker trial

    Susan and Marcus Evans – two of the first whistleblowers involved in exposing the scandal at the Tavistock’s GenderIdentity Development Service (GIDS) – have written to the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, asking him to “immediately halt” the proposed UK puberty blocker trial. The whistleblowers believe “the proposed research risks causing iatrogenic harm to children who…

  • A message to you, GPs

    A message to you, GPs

    I am in touch with a doctor who is concerned about gender-affirming care, and the expectation that GPs in the UK will prescribe hormones for young adults who have been seen by Gender Identity Clinics. She has written what follows mainly for other clinicians, but it is of interest to the lay reader, too. Introduction…

  • Dr Louise Irvine: the case against the NHS puberty blocker trial

    Dr Louise Irvine: the case against the NHS puberty blocker trial

    This is a recording of a conversation I had on Times Radio on 3 March 2025 with Dr Louise Irvine, co-chair of the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG). An AI transcript of the conversation can be found below. NW: Let’s turn our attention to the new puberty blockers trial which is being…

  • Cross-post: Glenna Goldis

    Cross-post: Glenna Goldis

    I’m new to Glenna Goldis’ work. Glenna is a lawyer in New York City with experience in consumer fraud, family law, government, and civil legal aid. Her substack newsletter, Bad Facts, covers the movement for transgender rights. I stumbled across a link to Glenna’s newsletter on substack and after reading her long and informative legal analysis…