Trans activists’ claims that the puberty blocker ban will increase child suicides are unfounded and dangerous, an independent review has found. The Telegraph has more.
A suicide expert was commissioned by the Government to examine assertions made by trans groups and the Good Law Project, a legal campaign organisation, that there had been an increase in gender-questioning young people taking their own lives.
Prof Louis Appleby found the data “does not support the claims” and hit out at the “insensitive, distressing and dangerous” language being used by some, such as lawyer Jolyon Maugham, Director at the Good Law Project, who said the puberty blocker ban would “kill trans children”.
Prof Appleby said young people and their families “will be terrified by predictions of suicide as inevitable without puberty blockers” and criticised the “‘dead child’ rhetoric”.
“Suicide should not be a slogan or a means to winning an argument,” his report said.
The review concluded that there had been no significant increase in suicide rates among patients at the Tavistock clinic at any point since 2020, despite claims to the opposite.
It found that there had been 12 suicides over six years among patients, half of whom were over 18, and at various stages of their care plan, including post-discharge from the Tavistock, meaning they were not linked to any one aspect of care.
While five of the deaths occurred from 2018-19 to 2020-21, there were seven in the three years since then.
Prof Appleby, who is the Chairman of the national suicide prevention strategy advisory group, also said it was likely there had been a rise in suicide rates over time because of the increase in young people at risk being referred, and that there was “a degree of uncertainty about the deaths recorded as ‘suicide not confirmed’”.
He said that “campaign groups are often selective about evidence” and the claims put into the public domain had not met “basic standards for statistical evidence”.
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‘I was assured this would not be held as an even-handed debate’. Holy effing cow.
You can see how bent the BBC is when it prefers opinions from people that make statements like this.
Michie needs to be exposed as the madwoman she is.
That’s a perfect description of Michie
Ah, but ‘the science is settled’, isn’t it?
Remember, the BBC is a taxpayer funded religious movement with doctrines (covidism, greenism, globalism, wokism) and apostles (Attenborough, Cox, Bowen et al).
Toby in danger of apostasy here.
Multi-millionaire communist Susan Michie needs to end her life in a prison cell.
The BBC’s propaganda gimp in chief Marianna Spring even handedly and politely destroyed by Darren Nesbit of the Light Paper..
https://rumble.com/v2phe1y-marianna-in-conspiracyland-full-unedited-interview-with-darren-nesbit-edito.html
Gawd! I’d never heard her voice before that interview (I’ll watch the full video later) but I had imagined exactly how she’d talk and it was spot on. The BBC churn out robots!
“Among the content flagged by the censors were criticisms of the Government’s decision to close schools by Molly Kingsley, the co-founder of a children’s campaign group.”
What’s all this about? Is there a reason why Toby has chosen not to give Molly Kingsley’s exceedingly worthy campaign group a deserved name check?
For the record Molly Kingsley was a co-founder of ‘Us for Them.’
BioNTech has some court cases which commenced this week. Anything they do pay out in compensation to the vax injured will just be pocket change to them anyway and they will carry on as usual, but I don’t even foresee it coming to that. The crux of the matter is proving causation and this is what it all hinges on. I think there’s too much riding on the denial of any wrongdoing or proving of harms caused by their products because, if this happened, the entire mRNA house of cards vax industry would come tumbling down and that is inconceivable. Especially for such a lucrative business model and tech that is still in its infancy.
”Pharmaceuticals producer BioNTech is facing compensation claims in Germany after two law firms claimed clients suffered lasting health problems as a result of the company’s coronavirus jab.
BioNTech, which is based in Mainz, entered court this week in its first German hearing.
The case has been brought against the German biotechnology company on behalf of a middle-aged medical worker.
A woman is seeking €150,000 in damages after suffering from heart arrhythmia and brain fog following her vaccination.
BioNTech said: “Continuous monitoring of the vaccine’s safety profile and after more than 2.6 billion doses of [the Covid-19 jab] administered worldwide has to date not identified potential side effects other than those already listed in the respective product information.”
The pharmaceutical company also warned the Hamburg case demonstrated a failure from the plaintiff and lawyers to highlight a “causal relationship between the adverse events and the vaccine”.
https://www.gbnews.com/health/covid-vaccine-germany-biontech-lawsuits-latest-news
”…has to date not identified potential side effects other than those already listed in the respective product information.”
Think Jessica Rose would beg to differ. She’s also been analyzing this paper of Pfizer’s which I previously shared, which is a report of the cumulative adverse effects of the jabs from roll-out until June 2022 ( so what are those stats looking like now? ) and amounts to just shy of 5 million, bearing in mind the known under-reporting factor so tip of the iceberg here. Seriously, at what point is *causation* ever going to be proven, because that is one hell of a lot of coincidences?? They’re being enabled to carry on committing crimes with impunity!
https://twitter.com/JesslovesMJK/status/1669324514679988224
To quote one of my patient’s as I did at Isablel Oakshott’s evening with Toby:’I knew it was Bell’s Palsy because my schoolfriend down the street also had it.’
She was 19 and had to tape here eyelids shut at night to prevent dry eye, secondary infection and the loss of the eye.
At 19 she never needed the Pfizer vaccine, but she was pushed into it by our evil leaders in government and public health.
I thought they’d been given a ‘get out of jail free’ card built into their contracts to supply the jabs? Sure it might dent what reputation Biontech have but I’d bet the directors have diversified their shareholdings. They can quit rich tomorrow.
I wouldn’t worry. People are leaving the BBC in droves and ignoring most government diktats.
Suggest you watch Tucker Carlson on his Twitter broadcast (can watch it without the app) The truth is refreshing
Can you give me a link please?
Good luck to Matt, Michael and Russell. I hope others in the “free speech” corner join them.
The Globalists’ propagandists, particularly the BBC, need a real fight.