They weren’t just pious prigs. They were fully aware of their dangerous lie, and they were fully aware of the very onerous consequences. They just didn’t care about the appalling harm being caused to the most vulnerable children.
As the scale of the medical scandal around ‘gender-affirming care’ becomes clear, there will be many attempts to salvage reputations through retcon and memory hole. Here is an early and egregious example.
I was recently informed by the writer Barry Purcell that there is “robust data” supporting the prescription of powerful hormones to gender dysphoric children. I asked him to cite the data he had in mind and in fairness to him, he has done just that.
I have been informed several times recently that The Cass Report has mistreated the available data on the efficacy of gender affirming care. Perhaps Barry Purcell is indeed aware of a fundamental problem that I have missed?
Whereas the Atheists For Liberty team have been loudly proclaiming that they are the only “non-woke” atheist organisation, in fact their position is not at all exceptional.
The news this week about Imane Khelif reminds me of the exchange illustrated here, which I believe describes a large part of the ideology that created this mess.
When it is suggested that trans people are ‘born in the wrong body’, this implies to me that they must have some kind of supernatural spirit or soul. I have now been admonished otherwise.
Some who consider themselves rationalist and progressive, are so keen to promote supernatural ideas like being born in the wrong body, that they will sacrifice gay rights to do so.
A self-declared anonymous expert in “advanced developmental psychology”, has contacted me to disagree with several things I’ve written on the transgender issue.