Butterflies and Wheels » Discussing all the things

Helen Webberley is economical with her words. She omits a lot of words that would make her meaning clearer.
A mother wrote to me recently, heartbroken. Her ten-year-old transgender daughter had been told, just two weeks before departure, that she could not go on her school trip. The reason given was that she could not share a room with her friends because...

Hayley Dixon in the Telegraph on the throttling of an academic who doesn’t subscribe to magic gender beliefs:
The health official behind the pause of the NHS’s puberty blocker trial is blocked from any further involvement amid accusations of bias.
Prof Jacob George is said to have raised concerns over the trial after taking up his role as the chief medical and scientific officer at the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) earlier this year. The regulator’s subsequent intervention...

Again. Same problem. How is awareness of very basic facts “bias”? Surely the denial of very basic facts is a better candidate for accusations of bias.
A health official who reportedly intervened to pause a clinical trial on the use of puberty blockers has been removed from any further involvement due to accusations of bias....

Sonia Sodha writes
This row has emerged from one of the most contested issues in medical science today: whether gender-questioning children should be put on an irreversible medical pathway, taking drugs to block puberty and ultimately progressing onto cross-sex hormones...