The Health Secretary stripped responsibility for a puberty blocker trial from a junior minister who had raised safeguarding concerns. The Telegraph has the story.
James Murray stopped Preet Kaur Gill, the Minister for Health Innovation and Safety, from taking a leading role on the controversial Pathways trial, according to people familiar with the matter.
The trial will involve 226 children who believe they are transgender being offered puberty-suppressing drugs, with girls as young as 11 and boys as young as 12 eligible.
Kaur Gill, a former social worker and MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, has in the past voiced alarm that “credible safeguarding warnings” about puberty blockers were being ignored.
When she took office in May, replacing Dr Zubir Ahmed, who had resigned in protest against Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership, Pathways was initially included in her portfolio, having previously fallen within Dr Ahmed’s brief.
It is understood that Kaur Gill was preparing to raise concerns about Pathways with officials at the start of last month. At the time, the trial, which had been commissioned following the Cass review to gather data on the side effects of puberty blockers, was on hold over safety concerns.
However, she appears to have been sidelined, and by the time the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announced on June 19th that Pathways could proceed with minimum age limits introduced, responsibility for the trial had passed to Baroness Merron, the Minister for Women’s Health and Mental Health.
Three days later, Murray told the Commons that, while he felt “discomfort and unease” at the prospect of trialling children as young as 11 on puberty-suppressing drugs, he thought “proceeding with the trial is, on balance, the most appropriate way forward”.
One Whitehall source told the Telegraph: “If this trial had stayed the responsibility of Preet Gill, she would have rightly cancelled it, at least until the child victims of the appalling Tavistock scandal had been tracked down to find out how badly damaged they are.
“Instead, in an increasingly desperate attempt to go ahead with this shocking trial, it has been taken away from her.”
Another source accused the Health Secretary of ignoring concerns not only from Kaur Gill, but also from two other female Health Ministers said to have reservations about medicalising gender-questioning children.
The source said: “It shows women’s voices are still not being listened to on this issue, and that one man [Mr Murray] – who’s only been there for two seconds – is trying to push it through regardless.”
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I am 100% opposed to this state-sanctioned child abuse.
If this were truly a trial, having a sceptic on board would at least provide some semblance of objectivity. Instead it appears they intend to stack the team only with true believers, making it very unlikely that they’ll be honest about what goes on.
Full transparency is needed.
It is also parent-sanctioned child abuse.
These children’s lives are being experimented with for the sake of Wokeism. It hasn’t been necessary in the past, and it isn’t necessary now.
This will likely cost some of these children their lives, and certainly their well-being. This is evil.
Insanity rules in public life. Everyone involved in this abomination should be prosecuted.
Not necessarily simply ‘for the sake of Wokeism’. It may be that the pharamceutical industry, having feasted on so much public largesse courtesy of the plandemic – which it still hasn’t been held to account over – is looking round for other ways of making ever greater numbers dependent on its products. Bear in mind, the more who need lifetime medication, the bigger the bonuses. The numbers of victims of this trial may – thankfully – be small, but every little helps to that end.
They can be experimented on, but soon won’t be allowed to use Social Media – lest it “harms” them.
What a crazy *ucked up world we live in.