The words “detransition” and “regret” appear nowhere in the trial protocol—despite being the most well-documented adverse outcomes of puberty blocker treatment.
And the majority of trans people don’t suffer from these. Transphobes who don’t want to sound insane by spewing suicide stuff try to overblow this to make it sound medically risky.
The trial protocol acknowledges that blockers disrupt natural recovery, with 98% proceeding to sterilising cross-sex hormones. This is not a neutral “pause.”
Was anyone saying it was?
Regret typically takes 7–11 years to manifest, yet the trial runs for just two years. It cannot measure the most predictable long-term harm it will cause.
Translation: “If your study finds out that I’m wrong, then your study is bad!”
Children with autism, ADHD, and same-sex attraction will not be excluded—despite these being identified as factors leading many to later regret transition.
This is both “DUHH THINK OF THE CHILDREN” and using people that they probably do not care about as weapons. Disgusting.
The trial adopts the ICD-11 diagnosis of “gender incongruence”—a vague, activist-created label that pathologises natural gender non-conformity in children.
This is just a new coat of paint on ye olde “You’re not trans, just gender non-conforming!” argument.
The NHS refuses to track outcomes for 9,000 children already treated at the Tavistock before enrolling hundreds more.
I don’t know enough about specifically British trans stuff to tell what the “Tavistock” is, but this looks to me just like a repackaging of the 1st argument from this very list.