The Cass Review may prove to be a tipping point in radical gender ideology’s march through mainstream politics, institutions and civil society. It certainly appears to spell the end of routinely sending children who express confusion about their bodies or their identities down the transition path. The political responses to the report, especially from those who were until recently fully signed on to this ideology, suggest that under what remains of this government and the next Labour government there will be a more cautious approach.
Few who enabled this barbarism – we are talking, after all, about chemically coshing adolescents to suppress puberty – will pay any kind of price for their actions, least of all those in political or public life who were as eager to participate in this outrage as they were to decry those who spoke out against it. Too many people in positions of power have a case to answer and so it will generally be agreed that moving on is best all round.
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