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"Whilst the loony left was always marginal, the contemporary woke left has marched through every institution, welcomed as standard bearers of progressive values. For senior managers and policy makers, signalling organisational support is not merely a matter of adding their pronouns to email signatures. For distressed young people and children, those without power, the price has been paid with their own flesh and futures. Here’s where matters get darker still.
Earlier this year, feminist magazine Reduxx published an investigation into the workings of international transgender body WPATH. It revealed a leading academic within the organisation was a decades-long member of a private online forum known as the Eunuch Archives, where users shared written pornographic fantasies about the castration of children. WPATH’s newly released Standards of Care (SoC) “for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People” remove any reference to minimum-age limits for children to be able to access puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and sex-reassignment surgery. (As an aside, Mermaids’ chief executive Susie Green is listed as one of WPATH’s SoC authors.) More disturbingly still, physical treatments are recommended for those who identify as eunuchs, including children. Thankfully, across the world leading medical bodies are abandoning child transition — even in the US where the new transition industry is booming, the Food and Drug Administration slapped a warning on puberty blockers noting a risk of serious side-effects, including brain swelling and vision loss.
As the existence of the Eunuch Archives makes clear, not all of those promoting the use of drugs to stop the sexual maturation of pre-pubescent bodies have the best interests of children at heart. The attachment of PIE to the loony left forty years ago should’ve served as a warning both that trendy causes are not always progressive, and that those who want to abuse children will use whatever tools they can. Yet, when responsible adults insist that safeguarding matters, and that children do not have the capacity to act in accordance with their own best interests, it is still the case that they are smeared as ignorant and phobic.
As with its mythical namesake, at present Mermaids is transfixed by its own perfect reflection: unwilling to look away from the magic mirror and take responsibility for the wreckage it has created. Whilst the charity may still believe in its own myth, the wider world has become disenchanted."
Wu-ELL!!! Who'd 've thunk that?
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