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"From the earliest days, my home life was unhappy," she said. "My parents—a white Englishwoman and a black American who got together while he was in Britain with the U.S. Air Force—divorced when I was about 5. My mother, who was on welfare, descended into alcoholism and mental illness. Although my father remained in England, he was emotionally distant to me and my younger sister."
"By the time I got to the Tavistock, I was adamant that I needed to transition," she went on to say. "It was the kind of brash assertion that's typical of teenagers. What was really going on was that I was a girl insecure in my body who had experienced parental abandonment, felt alienated from my peers, suffered from anxiety and depression, and struggled with my sexual orientation.”
"But the further my transition went, the more I realized that I wasn't a man, and never would be. We are told these days that when someone presents with gender dysphoria, this reflects a person's "real" or "true" self, that the desire to change genders is set. But this was not the case for me. As I matured, I recognized that gender dysphoria was a symptom of my overall misery, not its cause."
"Five years after beginning my medical transition to becoming male, I began the process of detransitioning. A lot of trans men talk about how you can't cry with a high dose of testosterone in your body, and this affected me too: I couldn't release my emotions. One of the first signs that I was becoming Keira again was that—thankfully, at last—I was able to cry. And I had a lot to cry about."
"Five years after beginning my medical transition to becoming male, I began the process of detransitioning. A lot of trans men talk about how you can't cry with a high dose of testosterone in your body, and this affected me too: I couldn't release my emotions. One of the first signs that I was becoming Keira again was that—thankfully, at last—I was able to cry. And I had a lot to cry about."
In a landmark ruling in December 2020, a panel of three judges in the English High Court found that children cannot give informed consent to puberty blockers. Keira Bell's lawyers argued that the Tavistock had failed to protect children who sought its services, and that the clinic had conducted what amounted to uncontrolled medical experiments on their patient cohort.
The judge's verdict was unanimous. In the judgement, they repeatedly expressed surprise that the Tavistock had failed to gather basic data on its patients, including follow-up data on longer-term outcomes of the transgender treatment pathway. They noted that there was a lack of evidence for putting children as young as 10 years old on puberty blockers, a move that is nearly always followed by wrong sex hormones--powerful and damaging drugs which must be taken for life to maintain the illusion of having changed sex.
In the last decade, increasing numbers of girls have been seeking treatment for gender dysphoria—unhappiness with their sexed body. In 2009-10, 77 children were referred to the Tavistock, 52 percent of whom were boys. As the overall number of referrals began to soar, that ratio started to reverse. In 2018-19, 624 boys and 1,740 girls were referred—74 percent of the total.
Over half of referrals, of whom 74 percent were girls, the patients were aged 14 or under. Some patients referred for experimental "trans healthcare" were as young as 3 years old.
We live in a society where three years olds are being labelled by adult as cross-dressers and transexuals—labels which, until very recently, would only ever be applied to adult men whose sexual fetishism had taken over their lives.
The sheer lack of curiosity about these extraordinary facts is a clear signal that ideology and financial interests are behind the wheel here, not care for children, and certainly not medical ethics. Sex denialism is a uniquely dangerous creed.
We can only hope that, thanks to the self-sacrifice of brave people like Robert Hoogland, countries like Canada whose legal, medical and social care systems are captured by transgender ideology, will very soon wake up and smell the coffee. It cannot be long before society looks back upon this period of the medical transition of children with shame and regret.
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