The fight against gender madness isn’t over

Too many conservatives are behaving as if Donald Trump’s inauguration has somehow done to wokery what garlic does to a vampire; as if they can now sit back and watch the orange mist vaporise ideological insanity across the West. A study released today by the University of York shows just how crazy this sort of complacency is.

Academics analysed GP records and discovered what looks like a 50-fold increase in diagnoses of gender dysphoria in children between 2011 and 2021. They estimate that there were 10,000 diagnoses made in 2021, up from just 200 in 2011. It’s horrifying, especially when you consider all the countless others who currently self-identify as trans and are now somewhere in the rainbow pipeline, drifting towards diagnosis. 

Do MPs imagine this is some sort of high-water mark, before the turn of the trans tide? It’s really not. The response to the story makes that perfectly plain. If we really were waking up, as a nation, to the state our kids are in, there’d be horrified comments from doctors and a commitment across Whitehall to addressing the situation; we’d be discussing the fact that the Stonewall agenda has grown live ivy into, and around, all the institutions we assume will keep children safe.