Hannah in The Observer

Hannah Barnes, author of Time to Think, has written for the Observer about the malign influence of WPATH in the NHS. I recommend you read her article.

I've written to the editor about it.

Hannah Barnes again raised the disturbing issue of medically experimenting on children with psychological problems, and the malign influence of WPATH (March 10th). WPATH's standards of care were developed from crackpot sexologist Harry Benjamin's 1979 SOC in his 'Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association', WPATH's precursor. It was all based on theory without evidence, and that hasn't changed.

What I find extraordinary is the lack of curiosity about the very recent explosion in transgenderism. Where did all these supposedly gender dysphoric adults and children come from? There've been an unknown number of transvestite men for years, but not children. Social contagion via social media was the likeliest stimulus, just as Anorexia and cutting have spread through imitation. It's a craze adopted by people for a variety of reasons. A high proportion of the affected children are autistic, perhaps looking for other outsides like themselves. Many adult males seem to be sexually motivated transvestites, coming out of their closets. But none of this is being questioned, even by those responsible for our national healthcare in the NHS. It's a national scandal, gradually being exposed by people like Hannah Barnes and the women who've had to resort to the law to protect their reputations after suffering trans-motivated discrimination at work. It has to stop.