Why Was Gender Ideology Allowed to Run Amok For So Long?

So, after years of gaslighting and cancellations, what has been going on in those NHS gender clinics is now staring the great and good in the face. The question now is, how was this ever allowed to happen?

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The review points to some of the more immediate reasons. Namely, the shoddiness of the evidence base for various treatments combined with the conspiracy of silence around this. Shockingly, Dr Cass says her research was actually ‘thwarted by a lack of cooperation from the adult gender services’. ‘I do think it was coordinated’, she tells the Guardian. ‘It seemed to me to be ideologically driven.’

But there is a deeper question here too – not just for the health service but for the media, academia and polite society. These cruel goings-on in the NHS have been an open secret for literally decades. And yet only today, with Cass’s report, is it being properly digested. 

Ed Morrissey

The short answer is: cowardice.

The longer answer is a Western surrender to technocracy rather than common sense and real self-governance. The absurdity of the trans movement would have been obvious to previous generations and in fact WAS obvious to previous generations. The attempt to seduce children into sterilizing "therapies" would have resulted in the application of tar and feathers in an earlier age, and still should result in prosecution and lawsuits today. 

So why didn't it? See the short answer. 

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