Lionel Shriver Lionel Shriver

It rarely pays to be ahead of your time

issue 27 April 2024

Lionel Shriver has narrated this article for you to listen to.

Following the release of the Cass report deprecating NHS ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors as reliant on rubbish medical research, the number of comment pieces disparaging the cult of transgenderism has exploded. Such columns would never have been published even a couple of years ago. Finally, pushing disturbed children and adolescents into damaging and sometimes gruesome treatment in the service of adult fanaticism is starting to look, um – iffy. For outliers who’ve been frantically signalling, ‘Hey! Maybe a society that’s mutilating its own kids has lost its way!’ this watershed should constitute satisfying vindication. It does. That’s the good news.

Proper manias sweep virtually everyone up in their whirlwinds, and woe to anyone who clings to reality

The bad news: the lie that you can choose to be whichever sex you feel like is entrenched in Britain’s school system.

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