Sack those who conspired against children

We will only close this dark chapter in our history if we punish trans extremists for the harm they have caused

There is no doubt that the Cass report, four years in the making, represents a watershed moment. The emperor has been stripped of every item of clothing, and the house of cards has tumbled. No longer can politicians, clinicians and others say with any authority that prescribing puberty blockers for gender-confused children is either harmless or irreversible.

We know that a damaging medical experiment has been performed on our most vulnerable children at Gids. But how do we ensure real and lasting change? Serious consequences are a must, and will, in turn, act as a deterrent for anyone thinking they can ride roughshod over the report’s recommendations or the duty of care owed to children by teachers, social workers and clinicians.

Already, some politicians – who don’t appear to have even read the report – have stated that they will soon be consulting gender ideologues about next steps. They should be kicked out of their political party, triggering by-elections in order that their constituents – many of whom will be trying to support their genderconfused children – can kick them out of Parliament. Only one Labour MP has consistently and tirelessly spoken out against the misogyny inherent to gender ideology, and the colleagues who have bullied and defamed her should be investigated and face disciplinary action: to date, the party has neither protected her from harassment, bullying and defamatory allegations, nor taken the perpetrators to task.

Clinicians who, at private clinics, handed out puberty blockers without adequate tests or examinations ought to be investigated. Class actions need to be taken against psychiatrists and doctors who set children on an irreversible pathway.

Teachers who have allowed (or even encouraged) children to socially transition should lose their jobs – especially when they have also failed to inform parents that their child is presenting as the opposite sex. These young people will be irreversibly harmed by trusted adults feeding them the fiction that they can change sex.

Trans charities should be stripped of all public funding, as should any other organisation pushing the fiction that puberty blockers are harmless. Therapists claiming children denied access to puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones are at risk of suicide should have the sword of Damocles over their heads. Their professional body should remove their licences. Any doctor administering those drugs to children (NHS or private) should be struck off.

This is not about vengeance. It is the only way to protect children, because some of these gender ideologues follow the mantra as though it is a fundamentalist religion. They see themselves as do-gooder freedom fighters. They will not countenance dissent, or ever believe that their actions are morally wrong.

We need to stop using benign terminology, such as “gender affirmation” and call it what it is. Children cannot change sex. We need to go back to the early principles of feminism, which held that children should be able to play with whatever toys they wish without being labelled as “gender nonconforming”. Parents who transition their own children should be investigated by police, and social services need to be retrained out of the ideology, enabling them to do a better job of protecting children from parents that do this. At the same time, we must ensure that parents who don’t subscribe to the gender dogma are not smeared as transphobic and deliberately isolated from their children.

If this all sounds harsh, so it should. In all other areas there are, rightly, serious penalties for harming children. Across British society, many others have been complicit in the trans conspiracy against our young. Some have used their fame to peddle this dangerous ideology. They ought to apologise, admit their wrongdoing, and help set us back on a path to reason.

In 2022, it was reported that a thousand families are set to sue Gids. These families allege that their children were rushed into taking life-changing puberty blocking drugs. Many of those kids ended up on cross-sex hormones. This amounts to serious medical negligence, and those responsible should face financial penalties. The NHS and all public bodies must now denounce anyone involved in this medicalisation of children. It is child abuse, and it needs to be stopped. Young people’s lives depend on it.