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The case against the Tavistock, seeking (in effect) to deny trans kids in the UK treatment that is available throughout the rest of the developed world, will hear no submissions from trans kids. They, and charities representing them, asked to be heard but were denied all voice.
Several organisations who seek to deny them treatment will be heard. And professionals who treat them will be too. But it is profoundly shocking - redolent of men in The Handmaid's Tale deciding on women's futures - that those most affected should be shut out.
This perpetuates the increasing pattern in the UK and its transphobic media (including the Guardian and BBC) of talking about, over and at trans children, of highlighting the views of those who deny their reality, but never listening to them.
I feel deeply ashamed of my country.
I feel deeply ashamed of my country.
Here is how other countries see us. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11933096
