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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Mentally disturbed people are prone to suicide.
Children know full well how to try to manipulate parents.
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https://thenewconservative.co.uk/tony-blair-a-long-overdue-exorcism/
Frank Haviland sticking the knife in to the most evil man ever to hold a British passport, the psychopath Tony Bliar.
“Blair’s greatest crime however, was almost certainly the deliberate exposure of Britain to the horrors of mass immigration, and the embrace of multiculturalism which was neither explained to nor requested by the British people. Under New Labour, immigration quintupled to the tune of 3.6 million net – an outrage topped only by the lies used to justify it. First it was migrants were required to do the jobs Brits refused to do. When it was pointed out that Brits actually would do them, Blair told them to get a better education instead!”
Frank reaches this conclusion which has clearly been worded with some restraint…
“It’s time someone performed the necessary exorcism and purged us once and for all of New Labour’s poltergeist.”
More Bliar bashing please.
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https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1813822998874337466
This is a two minute video of a farmer who has been approached by some government wonk and has been offered money NOT to grow food.
When you read the testimonies of detransitioners it’s heartbreaking because you’re seeing the extent of the permanent harms that have been done to them, enabled by a combination of parents and the state. They often get stuck somewhere in between genders and can never really be completely normal again, especially if meds have been started in early childhood before they started puberty, and this normal physiological process was interrupted. Here’s the testimony of an 18yr old guy who thought he wanted to be a girl as a kid. What kind of parent would do this to their own child though? Don’t these parents feel shame and guilt for the rest of their lives? Or do they honestly think their child would have committed suicide had they not proceeded with this entire damaging, health-destroying process?
https://x.com/HazelAppleyard_/status/1812589643101356040
It’s pretty clear to me that the narrative is crumbling for the Transtifa child-grooming mafia, and we’re going to see more ‘buyers remorse’ via an increase in detransitioners, much like how people stopped getting endless death jabs. Or maybe it’d be more appropriate to say that there’ll be a decrease in parents screwing up their kids’ health and futures as the scales fall from their eyes, irrespective of government narrative.
https://x.com/SandraMargin/status/1814687176971477006
If there’s one thing that makes me see red it’s this. I’ll tell you what will increase child suicides: making children believe sex is interchangeable. Making children believe that not being heterosexual is cool. Making children believe their parents are their enemies. Making girls think all men are evil rapists. Mutilating children – cutting them up and sowing on different bits. The list of child cruelty is bloody endless, all complete BS, and all driven by far-left evil.
We’re at the calm before the storm. We have a generation of children who have yet to understand they’ve been told a lie by the nice, caring adults of the nice, caring left. Child suicide? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
I’ll add that telling children that large parts of the Earth are going to become uninhabitable and billions of people will die because of climate change isn’t going to be great for their mental health.
Anyone who is disappointed that there are not more ‘gender-questioning young people’ committing suicide is obviously not to be trusted. It’s very good news that the puberty blocker ban is not increasing child suicides, but it’s somehow not good news for Jolyon Maughan and the Good Law Project campaigners.
That man needs to be treated like the fox he encountered.