{"id":206173,"date":"2025-06-22T22:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/206173\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T22:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T22:33:08","slug":"no-more-experiments-on-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/206173\/","title":{"rendered":"No more experiments on children"},"content":{"rendered":"

In saner times, nobody would need to spell this out: puberty is not a problem. It\u2019s not a pathology. It\u2019s not something to be halted, postponed or \u2018paused\u2019. It\u2019s a normal, necessary part of growing up. But today, in an upside-down world where truth must tiptoe around ideology, even the most basic biological facts need defending.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Genspect, which I founded, has launched<\/a> the \u2018Memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the role of puberty in adolescent development\u2019. It should be redundant. But it\u2019s not. We now live in a world where the UK Supreme Court<\/a> needs to clarify that men aren\u2019t women, where state-funded studies propose prescribing powerful drugs to delay puberty in confused kids, and where medical authorities have outsourced their moral compass to activist groups.<\/p>\n

This MoU is a line in the sand: puberty is not optional, and children deserve the right to grow up \u2013 unmedicated and unmanipulated. Genspect has created a platform, ProtectingPuberty.com<\/a>. Groups like Sex Matters, CanSG, Transgender Trend, LGB Alliance and Thoughtful Therapists \u2013 alongside many other well-informed organisations \u2013 have already signed the MoU<\/a>. Together, we\u2019re pushing back against a tide of institutional cowardice and ideological capture. Around the world, organisations are downloading the MoU compliance badge and joining this public stand for a basic, commonsense truth that should never have been up for debate.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t some fringe concern. Last year, the Cass Review\u2019s<\/a> scathing findings led to the closure of the discredited Tavistock gender clinic and to a ban on puberty blockers. Yet despite all this, the NHS is now throwing \u00a310million<\/a> at a study that will dole out puberty blockers to gender-distressed kids \u2013 again. <\/p>\n

Yes, even after all we\u2019ve learned, the medical establishment is still flirting with the idea that we can chemically freeze children in time and expect no consequences. Effectively, UK health secretary Wes Streeting has banned puberty blockers with one hand and reintroduced them with the other \u2013 dressing up the same failed experiment as \u2018research\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Distinguished clinicians such as David Bell, Marcus and Susan Evans, Az Hakeem, Stephen Levine and others have also added their names to the accompanying \u2018Statement of concern<\/a>\u2019 opposing the proposed NHS puberty-blocker trial. But where is the public outrage?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be clear: puberty is not just about pubic hair and hormones. It\u2019s a profound metamorphosis \u2013 physically, cognitively, emotionally. It\u2019s what makes adults out of children. Strip that away, and you\u2019re left with something chilling: children suspended in a twilight state, medically sterilised and emotionally stalled, with no path back to normality.<\/p>\n

And yet, we\u2019re told this is \u2018progress\u2019. We\u2019re told it\u2019s \u2018affirming\u2019 to block puberty in a 12-year-old girl because she doesn\u2019t like her body. We\u2019re told it\u2019s compassionate to drug children into stasis while their peers grow, mature and explore first love, heartbreak and rebellion \u2013 the messy business of becoming an adult. <\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t medicine. It\u2019s experimentation. It\u2019s social engineering with scalpels and syringes. There\u2019s no long-term outcome data. No rigorous follow-ups. Just ideology in a lab coat.<\/p>\n

Through Genspect\u2019s Beyond Trans programme<\/a>, I run weekly online support groups for detransitioners and others dealing with the fallout of medical transition. What I hear is often devastating: fear, regret and a haunting sense that a point of no return has been crossed.<\/p>\n

Many have undergone major surgeries \u2013 ovary or testicle removal \u2013 and now live with the irreversible consequences of decisions made when they were too young to understand them. Though they\u2019ve psychologically detransitioned, they\u2019re left in medical limbo. Some are terrified to restart hormones that match their biological sex. Why? Because there\u2019s no roadmap. No one knows what happens next \u2013 least of all the clinicians who set them on this path.<\/p>\n

Should a woman who never went through natural puberty, but now regrets her transition, start pumping synthetic oestrogen into a body that\u2019s been shaped entirely by testosterone? What happens to a female body that never developed breasts, never menstruated, had a hysterectomy, and was medically masculinised from adolescence?<\/p>\n

What does it do not just to the body, but also to the mind and metabolism, when the most fundamental stages of human development have been bypassed in the name of \u2018affirmation\u2019? These experimentally constructed adults have reached adulthood having bypassed puberty. <\/p>\n

This is not a healthcare model. It\u2019s dystopian. It tramples over ethics, evidence and common sense, echoing the darkest chapters of medical history, when vulnerable people were used as guinea pigs in experiments dressed up as \u2018care\u2019.<\/p>\n

The silence from the medical profession on this upcoming trial is deafening. Too many clinicians still hedge, clinging to the idea that puberty blockers \u2018might help some kids\u2019. But the evidence doesn\u2019t back it up, and if you can\u2019t say no to harmful interventions out of fear of online backlash, you shouldn\u2019t be in healthcare.<\/p>\n

I was once one of those gender-nonconforming kids \u2013 a tomboy and a misfit. Thankfully, no one tried to \u2018affirm\u2019 me with drugs. I was allowed to go through puberty, develop sexually, and to slowly grow into myself. Why can\u2019t today\u2019s kids be given the same freedom?<\/p>\n

Let the tomboys be. Let the feminine boys wave their fairy wands and find their own path. Let kids be weird and wild. That\u2019s childhood. <\/p>\n

Puberty is not an error to be corrected. It\u2019s the bridge between who we were and who we\u2019re becoming. Blocking it doesn\u2019t hit pause. It derails the individual onto a pathway of lifelong medicalisation.<\/p>\n

This MoU isn\u2019t about politics. It\u2019s about principle. And it\u2019s time for the adults in the room to stop dithering. We need to say it loud and clear: no more experiments on children.<\/p>\n

No more pretending that halting puberty is a harmless pause. No more pretending this is \u2018kind\u2019. Puberty is not negotiable. It\u2019s not up for debate. It is the most natural process in the world \u2013 and a vital developmental stage that allows humans to become fully functioning adults.<\/p>\n

Stella O\u2019Malley<\/strong> is the director and founder of Genspect<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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