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Kiera Bell has won her case.
She is a lesbian, she was always a lesbian.
In her teenage difficulties with that fact, she just needed somebody to tell her she was fine the way she was.
Instead, she was given puberty blockers, testosterone and a double mastectomy.
She is a lesbian, she was always a lesbian.
In her teenage difficulties with that fact, she just needed somebody to tell her she was fine the way she was.
Instead, she was given puberty blockers, testosterone and a double mastectomy.
So many young lesbians experience difficulties with the sexed aspects of our bodies, especially during puberty.
So many of us have the experience of growing out of our difficulties, into ourselves, as we find our place in our community, and find that we are loveable as we are
So many of us have the experience of growing out of our difficulties, into ourselves, as we find our place in our community, and find that we are loveable as we are
Instead of a warm, welcoming community, Kiera was met by doctors and surgeons with powerful rhetoric and more powerful drugs.
She was not given a chance to grow into herself.
Well, she is growing into herself now.
Alongside Mrs M, the anonymous litigant, she's won.
She was not given a chance to grow into herself.
Well, she is growing into herself now.
Alongside Mrs M, the anonymous litigant, she's won.
She's gone through her own trauma, and she's come out of it fighting, and she has protected a whole generation of young gays and lesbians from irreversible damage.
She wasn't even looking for compensation for what was done to her.
She just wanted to stop others being harmed.
She wasn't even looking for compensation for what was done to her.
She just wanted to stop others being harmed.
Irish kids go to the Tavistock, and will be directly impacted by this case. But this judgement will reverberate around the developed world.
We are only surprised that doctors needed a court to tell them that children cannot consent to experimental, life changing drugs.
We are only surprised that doctors needed a court to tell them that children cannot consent to experimental, life changing drugs.
We are mindful, though, of the distress that this judgement is likely to cause to children currently identifying as "trans" and their families.
Many of these families have their sights set on a particular treatment course.
We wish these children and families well.
Many of these families have their sights set on a particular treatment course.
We wish these children and families well.
We hope that in time, they come to realise, as we do, that the experimental use of puberty blockers in children, to treat gender dysphoria, has been from the start, an ill advised, poorly evidence experiment, and that watchful waiting is better in almost all cases.
