James Esses

🚨Important Announcement: Puberty Blockers Judicial Review🚨 Following months of radio silence, I’m saddened to report that the government has announced that it is pushing forward with the puberty blockers trial, regardless of the significant ethical concerns raised that led to the temporary pause. Most troubling of all is that they are now refusing to halt recruitment of children until the end of the Judicial Review that we are bringing. As such, we have no choice but to seek an emergency injunction to block a single child being recruited and given this poison. There will be a hearing at the end of July to determine this. Please rest assured that I and the entire team will be pursuing this Judicial Review all the way. @jamesmurray_ldn - Just as with your predecessor, Wes Streeting, we implore you to do the right thing and pull the plug on this monstrosity of a trial. If you don’t, we will see you in Court.

Under this UK government, 15 year olds will be considered too young to buy an energy drink but 11 year olds will be considered old enough to take puberty blockers… news.sky.com/story/under-16…

“It’s actually just very badly worded legislation.” On the latest episode of the FSU Podcast, FSU External Affairs Officer @_ConnieShaw speaks with therapist @JamesEsses about the Government’s Conversion Therapy Bill and how it could infringe people’s rights — particularly the right to free speech. James argues that the Bill will criminalise parents who refuse to affirm their gender-confused child’s decision to embark on an irreversible medical pathway. He says they could be reported to the police or their local council, hauled before a judge and, in effect, made subject to a restraining order. The threat of being reported to the police for well-intentioned conversations with their children will have a chilling effect on parents. Watch the full episode on the FSU YouTube channel 👇

🏠 Government decrees. The Mayor agrees. Barnet concedes. Labour’s Mayor of London wants Barnet to deliver 909 more homes every year - taking the target to 3,273 homes per year. Read more 👇 barnetconservatives.co.uk/news/barnet-co…

President Trump was spot on when he said that Sadiq Khan has done a terrible job as Mayor of London. In response, Keir Starmer squeaked: “he’s a friend of mine”. Is it any surprise that Starmer has nominated Khan for a peerage in one of his final acts as PM? Jobs for the boys.

There is a reason why X often auto-corrects ‘conversion therapy’ as ‘conversation therapy’. This Labour government wants to criminalise conversations.

Monsters who celebrate Ann’s death should be judged, shamed, even shunned. But never arrested and charged. Free speech is free speech. Something Ann herself championed throughout her lifetime in politics.

“That is exactly what this Bill will criminalise. Conversations.” Previous governments tried to introduce a conversion therapy ban and failed. This Bill is far more sinister. It will criminalise the well-intentioned and often difficult conversations that parents may have with their gender-confused children. Previous versions of the legislation included specific carve-outs to ensure that parents would not be criminalised for such conversations. This Bill contains no such protections. Parents could face up to five years behind bars for discouraging their children from embarking on irreversible, life-changing medical pathways. This is a full-on assault on freedom of speech. Watch @JamesEsses and @_ConnieShaw on the FSU Podcast 👇

The Government has announced a Bill to ban conversion practices that is so poorly and broadly drafted that it could see parents, therapists and religious leaders locked up for up to five years if they engage in well-intentioned conversations with gender-confused children or dare to share their faith’s teachings on sex, gender and marriage. On this week’s episode of the FSU Podcast, FSU External Affairs Officer @_ConnieShaw sits down with therapist @JamesEsses. The Minister for Equalities, Olivia Bailey MP, claims the Bill will not stop parents and therapists from talking openly to children with identity issues. She says it only criminalises conversion practices that are abusive and cause serious harm. However, James Esses, who works with children who believe they are “trapped in the wrong body”, argues that the proposed new law puts him at risk of imprisonment. Watch the full episode below 👇

Link below to my interview with the Free Speech Union about the monstrous ‘Conversion Practices Bill’. It is worse than I ever could have imagined. It criminalises talking and poses an existential threat to parental, therapeutic and religious freedoms. It must not become law.

@jk_rowling @AmnestyUK How about us lowly libelled therapists? 😉

Should any of the women's organisations targeted by @AmnestyUK's recent 'anti-rights' blacklist wish to take legal action, applications can be made to the JK Rowling Women's Fund. jkrwf.org

I’m very pleased to say that I have made it onto the Approved List of Conservative Parliamentary Candidates and I hope to be standing at the next General Election…whenever that may be!

The British Association of Psychotherapy & Counselling has just released new ‘Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity Guidance’. It categorises infidelity as a brand new sexuality: ‘secret non-monogamy’. Therapists must affirm this sexuality to prove ‘cultural competency’.

If you want net-zero and to remain in the ECHR, go join the LibDems. You are not genuine conservatives, whatever your website says.

From @dan_djs_ Starmer is leaving a trans Trojan Horse for his successors conservativehome.com/2026/07/08/dan…

🚨Breaking🚨 Last night, in what is significant overreach for a backbench Peer, Hilary Cass sent a document to every single MP and Peer, justifying and defending the puberty blockers trial. I have posted below the full document for people to read. Here is my initial response: She comes across as completely biased and her reasoning is flawed. She states that there is no evidence base to determine safety of puberty blockers but concludes with the categorical statement: “I am not worried about the safety of the children and young people in the trial”. She explains away risks to infertility and sexual functioning. She uses warped logic around impact to bone density (claiming that children without puberty blockers will be less socially active and this may cause bone issues regardless). She downplays the utility of the linkage study. She speaks glowingly about the “benefit of stopping unwanted puberty”. She believes the State should give children puberty blockers, otherwise they will get them through the black market. She is an ideologue masquerading as an independent clinician.

🚨Waitrose erases womanhood🚨 A whistleblower from Waitrose has just leaked an internal document to me, in which senior leaders have pledged to remove the name ‘feminine care’ from sanitary products, on the basis that “not all people who have periods are women”. Disgraceful.

Bigotry is defined as an intolerance towards people because of their beliefs or views. How can you not see that, in celebrating Ann’s death because of differing views to yours, you’re the bigot?