Labour MP Blasts Wes Streeting Over “Immoral” Puberty Blocker Trial Branding it a “Shameful Experiment on Children”
A Labour MP has blasted Health Secretary Wes Streeting over his “immoral” puberty blocker trial, branding it a “shameful experiment on children” and calling on him to scrap it. The Mail has more.
Jonathan Hinder, the MP for Pendle and Clitheroe, branded the “immoral” trial as “a shameful experiment on children”.
He is among dozens of MPs and peers who are calling for Mr Streeting to think again about the ‘Pathways’ trial for gender-questioning youngsters.
The King’s College London trial will involve around 226 people aged between 10 and almost 16 and was recommended by the Cass Review into children’s gender care.
The review concluded that the quality of research claiming to show the benefits of puberty blockers for youngsters with gender dysphoria was “poor”.
Mr Streeting has admitted he is “uncomfortable” with puberty-suppressing hormones being used on young people, but said it is his responsibility to follow expert advice.
A large group of Parliamentarians last month signed a cross-party letter to the Health Secretary to warn that continuing with the trial is a “dangerous mistake”.
Mr Hinder has now penned a joint newspaper article with Conservative MP Rebecca Paul, who has also signed the letter, in a further attempt to stop the trial.
The wrote in the Daily Express: “The NHS is set to run a shameful experiment on children.
“Physically healthy kids, some as young as eight, will be injected with drugs commonly known as ‘puberty blockers’.
“These medications stop the child’s natural growth in an attempt to ‘correct’ them, because they do not conform to sexist gender stereotypes – where boys like football and girls like Barbies.
“These children are often beginning to grapple with their sexuality, are neurodivergent, or are traumatised, so they are especially vulnerable.
“Puberty can be a tough time for anyone. But what children need is support to accept their healthy bodies as they are, rather than being told their bodies are somehow ‘wrong’.
“Puberty blockers will put them on the path to sterilisation, lack of sexual function, and needing medical treatment for life.
“All before they are old enough to know what is happening to them. No child can consent to this.”
The MPs added it was “incumbent” on Mr Streeting to act on his “correct” instincts about the trial.
“Two thousand children have already taken puberty blockers over the last 15 years, so we can already assess the damaging impact of these drugs on children in the short and longer term,” Mr Hinder and Ms Paul continued.
“The voters elect politicians to make decisions, not to pass the buck. Ministers must listen to a range of experts, consider the issue in the round, and then make a decision in the best interests of the British people.
“Together, we are asking the Health Secretary to demonstrate that much-needed political leadership now.”
Mr Streeting last month told MPs he is also not comfortable with the current ban on puberty blockers “because I had to look children and young people in the eye and their parents, who told me in no uncertain terms that that decision was harmful to them”.
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Insist that Cass rewrite her review leaving it impossible for the state to provide children for medical and surgical experimentation under any circumstances whatsoever. There is no ethical dilemma; it is just plain wrong to sanction the mutilation of young people.
“Mr Streeting has admitted he is “uncomfortable” with puberty-suppressing hormones being used on young people, but said it is his responsibility to follow expert advice.”
Let me translate it into proper English:
”I’m quite OK with the idea that confused and mentally ill young children will be sacrificed on the altar of a demonic and sadistic cult by chemical and surgical castration. But, just to cover my back for any future eventualities I will claim that I acted on the advice of the high priests of this cult (i.e. “the experts”). Let the castrations begin!
“Experts” who seem ignorant of the ethics of medical experimentation on human beings, as defined by the 1947 Nuremberg Code…
…The requirement of voluntary informed consent
…The risk must be weighed against the expected benefit
…Unnecessary pain and suffering must be avoided
…Doctors should avoid actions that injure human patients
The Nuremberg Code… and the illusions we had about the unalienable rights that we were supposed to have were abolished during the Covid crisis.
The majority of the population was only too happy to give up their freedoms.
If Starmer had been in power, we would have had even more stringent lockdowns, compulsory vaccination and imprisonment of refusers. Streeting would have been the loudest advocate of all this.
Understood. Only takes three generations at most for history to be rendered ancient.
Streeting can’t cover his back in this way. He’s the politically responsible decisionmaker. If it was his responsibility to treat expert advice like the king has to treat so-called advice by politicians, that is, as Do this now and don’t do anything else! order, nobody would need an elected government of the UK. The experts could just make all the decisions themselves.
Streeting is a weasel who’s obviously trying to play on both side of the game for now, that is, for as long as evidence for lifting the ban again hasn’t been manufactured in sufficient quantities, which is doubtlessly the only point of this so-called trial.
I suspect it’s because Starmer is telling him the trial needs to go ahead because as PM, he’s the one that approval for all things must go through and he’s the ultimate leader of the party. If Starmer thought this trial was unethical he would override Streeting, who is his subordinate, but what’s happening is proof that he’s totally onboard with this morally reprehensible shitshow.
I bet if this trial was being carried out in Africa by a pharma company he’d be all over it like a cheap suit (quite rightly) – outrageous, disgraceful, immoral.
Actually perhaps not they do like sucking up to billionaires.
Mr Streeting has admitted he is “uncomfortable” with puberty-suppressing hormones being used on young people, but said it is his responsibility to follow expert advice.
Mr Streeting is a liar. As politician in a government position, it’s his responsibilty to make decisions he’s then politically responsible for, possibly after asking advisers for advice if he thinks he needs any. That’s his very job.
Personally, I think the kids should be taken off parents who would go ahead and do this to their own offspring, then the parents arrested for child abuse. Total pie in the sky, of course. But how to say you’re an unfit parent without saying “I’m an unfit parent”. Same as the Covid death jab trials. Novel gene therapies tested on babies and toddlers.🤯
It also goes against all medical ethics because you’ve got brainwashed, mentally ill parents consenting on behalf of their kids, who will have zero comprehension of what the hell’s going on, let alone the long term side effects. Therefore the doctors should face serious consequences. They’re harming children in the name of an ideology. Competent adults can do whatever the hell they like with their bodies.
The only people that should be administered ‘puberty blockers’ are paedophiles and convicted rapists, because at least there’s justification in chemically castrating these degenerate scum. Leave the innocent and vulnerable alone.
That was basically also my idea when I read the
I had to look children and young people in the eye and their parents, who told me in no uncertain terms that that decision was harmful to them
If parents seriously believe the the fact that their children were born with a certain sex and will thus develop into adults of a certain kind is harmful to them they’re obviously totally crazy and the children should be taken away from them as a matter of urgency before they get chemically poisoned and surgically mutliated in the vain attempt to turn them into something they’re not. That’s called a coercive abusive relationship and it can be hoped that the kids will eventually recover when they’re not treated as undesirable monstrosity in the making for the first time in their lifes.
Incitement to abuse children should be a criminal offence and include all those who put forward phoney intellectual arguments in favour of it.
My local MP, whom I’ve watched rise meteorically from within a Council led by that bastion of virtue, Jas Athwal. Now a full-time radio interviewee, he also works part-time as Health Secretary. Wears integrity like an ill-fitting suit.
Among the myriad things done by governments in the past few years, this has to be among the most revolting. I am
not prone to violence but I would find it hard to resist trying to do physical harm to anyone collaborating in this disgusting evil.
Here we go again. As in the thalidomide scandal, no lessons learned until it is too late – and then only temporarily.
It’s beyond imagination that our current crop of politicians are so ignorant and stupid that they are unaware of the damage that medical experimentation has done to countless innocent children, thalidomide being but one example. I made this point numerous times during the covid vaccine rollout but no-one seemed remotely concerned. Our 21st century medical paradigm needs a serious overhaul including medical ethics and the power and influence of big pharma.
And this is the sorry excuse for a man that is desperate to be the next prime minister
These are all extremely dangerous drugs and none of them created for this purpose. Streeting? Or Mengele?
Surely a study could be made of those children who have been put on puberty blockers in the past without experimenting on new ‘guinea pigs’?