‘Stop experimenting on kids’

The NHS is about to perform a medical experiment on over 200 healthy children, despite already knowing the outcome in advance. Puberty blockers are known to do irreversible damage to children – and to be extraordinarily ineffective in alleviating kids’ distress. Today, a cross-party group of MPs, campaigners and experts protested outside the Department of Social Care demanding a halt to this reckless trial. spiked went to the demo and caught up with Sex Matters’ Helen Joyce, Tory MP Tom Tugendhat, independent MP Rupert Lowe, Reform UK councillor Laila Cunningham, therapist Stella O’Malley, and more, to hear their concerns. The ‘Pathways Trial’, we heard, is a product of trans ideology, not of sound medical science. And it rests on the faulty belief that you can be ‘born in the wrong body’.