Dr Hilary Cass introduced her statement on the future of children’s gender services with a quote from American statistician W Edwards Deming: “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.” For anyone who followed the sad practices of the Tavistock clinic, which is now thankfully closed, this marks a quiet, careful but profoundly radical change.
In writing on this subject, I have often met with facts so dangerous and beliefs so strange, that beyond science or reason, I have found it difficult to convey their existence.
Listen, you say, British doctors prescribe a drug used to chemically castrate rapists to stop puberty in boys as young as 11. The drug isn’t even approved for childhood gender dysphoria. Reduces growth and bone density, sterilizes and