John McMullan
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@john_mcmullan
Cricket is the best sport in the world. Truth will always matter.
Trans people of course deserve same protections against discrimination as other groups, but we must be clear that doesn't extend to the right to self-identify into services & spaces reserved for those of the opposite sex. Boundaries are kind and appropriate for everyone here.
Good. We know that these drugs are actually a form of conversion therapy on gay kids told they were born the wrong sex. As I have said many times: NO CHILD IS BORN IN THE WRONG BODY❗️ Under my leadership, Conservatives will do everything to protect childhood. Let’s focus on giving children and young people a positive body image instead of drugging them into oblivion and leading them down the path of irreversible biological changes. No child can consent to such treatments. So it is right that this unethical trial is paused. It should be stopped completely. Thank you to @StuartAndrew, @RosieDuffield1 and all the cross-party parliamentarians who signed my letter calling for this.
RSHE LESSONS ARE FAILING OUR CHILDREN Every day that new RSHE guidance is delayed, more of our children are being fed lies, in school, where they should be safe. It is the most vulnerable who will be most confused - and harmed;🧵1/3 dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Why won't the Tories ban pupils from transitioning? #Echobox=1700727629" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">spectator.co.uk/article/why-wo…
Why the Gender Critical movement as it presently stands will never receive broad support: Gender criticality is about centering biological sex over the concept of gender being detached from sex, right? It's about not wanting men in women's spaces... right? And it's also about preventing childhood transition out of an abundance of caution of risks and regret. ... and there won't be broad public support for that blend of policy cocktail because the majority of people have at least a shred of compassion for the gender dysphoric ... -- --- -- At Genspect, I met a women (who I will call Megan) who I later learned was transgender. I had no idea. She passed perfectly convincingly as though she were female, and only those whom she wished to disclose her sex to had any idea that she was biologically male at all. Megan and I left the conference Sunday evening and spent the night (and the early morning) chatting while driving aimlessly around downtown Denver. I realized in that chat just how different hers and my @genspect experiences were. Everything negative encounter I experienced, Megan did not. While many were very uncomfortable with my presence, they were quick to welcome Megan. While some were expressive in their fear I was using the women's washroom (which I did not, for those who care), Megan was present in those spaces with no concern expressed by anyone. ... and in the aftermath of the conference, one of our photos insulted and demeaned, while the other's disappeared as the unremarkable conference attendee she was.... This is a problem that should concern us all, because the embodiment of someone like Megan at Genspect is the strongest argument for why gender dysphoric individuals desperately wish to transition young. We need to face the reality that, I didn’t receive my Genspect experience because I am trans, I got it because I am non-passing trans. I got it because I was not a child when I transitioned, I was 28 years old. That’s a chilling reality to face for those who wish to argue to abolish childhood medical transition. I want to be able to say stopping childhood medical transition is a good thing. Really, I do. I want to tell the 10 year old dysphoric boy and his mother who are navigating this complex domain that waiting is better. That undergoing an unobstructed male puberty, a process through which many boys will find their childhood feelings of dysphoria subsist entirely, is the prudent thing to do. That mother and son need to know that biology is real and that you can’t change your sex. They need to hear that comorbidities exist, as does social contagion, and that it’s in their best interest to take every possible precaution to rule out these possibilities at the hazard of lifelong regret from irreversible damage. Those conversations are not happening and they should be. There’s no excuse not to be having it. I want to say that there’s little downside to waiting until adulthood to transition… But I need to tell them the entire truth: that the bestowal of dignity and kindness will be much sparser when left to transition as an adult. We need to make clear that while the risk of transition as a kid is infertility and regret, the risk of transition as an adult is also regret, along with many more surgeries undertaken in a desperation to try fruitlessly to reverse the masculinization of the jawbone and the forehead, the nose and the voice. For large hands and a long face, there’s no solution to those at the present. To be completely transparent, I would need to tell that mother and her 10 year old son that, should it come to it, he probably won’t pass as an adult transitioner, and that when he fails to convincingly present to the world as adequately feminine—as a woman if you will—he will be labeled a clown, an appropriator of womanhood, a pedophilic threat to our children, and a human unworthy of love. -- --- -- You want to ban childhood transition — create space for gender non-conforming males. You want to hold rigidly to our gendered society—you are pushing gender dysphoric individuals who seek childhood transition even more desperately.
The capture of medical institutions and professional bodies by trans activists has arguably had the most impact on this nonsense pervading western thought.
My new article is out: So Over the Rainbow The Gender Zealots Running the NHS Rainbow Badge Scheme grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/so-over-the-…
