Sometimes there are things that happen that are just so sick, so cruel, so seemingly random that you cannot comprehend how they occur.
Dousing someone, an innocent, unassuming, unsuspecting stranger, with a flammable liquid on a public conveyance. Striking that match or clicking the lighter.
Shoving an elderly man off a subway platform after hearing a train whistle or an old lady down a concrete flight of stairs.
Yanking a young co-ed off the running trail.
Ghastly, demented individuals doing horrific, singular acts of unthinkable, incomprehensible harm.
Individuals.
But what is it called when it is the state that does something that causes irreparable harm, documented, irreversible damage, both physical and mental, and not to a singular person, but to a group of hundreds of individuals?
To hundreds of children?
The same state that will not allow you to purchase a knife from Amazon because of the harm children do to each other with knives in the United Kingdom. A state that is seeking to strip every last privacy right from adults in order, they say, to protect children from predators who would harm them. Or urge them to harm themselves.
That same United Kingdom nanny state is now going to take precious little lives and bodies, as young as ten years old, so well outside the age of reason, and permit them to be injected with life-altering drugs for the purposes of 'study.'
Little, wee, lab rat martyrs for the trans movement.
What is the word I'm looking for that describes such a place and such a plan and such soulless people?
Hundreds of children are set to be jabbed with puberty blockers in the first NHS-backed experiment of its kind.
The controversial clinical study will see as many as 226 children as young as ten-years-old who believe they are transgender take part.
They will be injected with the drugs to examine whether they could safely be used in future to help young people change their bodies and become more like the gender they self-identify as, rather than their gender at birth.
Researchers dismissed accusations that the trial could amount to ‘coercing’ children into taking the drugs, which potentially damage fertility, bone density and brain development.
They insisted it would be safe because they have planned the ‘most rigorous and safest study design’ which will involve ‘close monitoring’ of any potential side-effects and risks.
TRUST US
Hundreds of children - some as young as 10 - are set to be jabbed with puberty blockers in NHS-backed experiment https://t.co/VjRElBNfyL
— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) November 22, 2025
How does the state allow it, knowing what we know?
What needs to be 'studied'?
What needs to be inflicted on children who have not achieved the age of reason and consent to even know what is happening to them?
Before you chance destroying their lives, before they even hit their teenage years?
Ten years old.
Please tell me the words you use to explain to an unhappy 10-year-old girl that you are going to regularly inject her with a drug that may mean she can never have children.
You are doing it so that her body does not change because she fears the arrival of pubic hair, of breast buds, of the reminders that she will have a woman’s body. This is because she feels disgusted by the whole idea of sex and prefers bikes, climbing, gaming. She dislikes girly things and what is expected of girly girls. She wants nothing to do with any of it.
She likes boyish clothes. So maybe she is boy? Maybe one of her parents thinks this could be the case? Then the juggernaut spins out of control and you end up with a doctor discussing something the girl doesn’t really get: “fertility preservation options”. The injections will make her stay as she is – a way out of what she fears: puberty.
This will all be done in the name of research, via an NHS clinical trial called Pathways. It’s funded by £11m of taxpayers’ money and will experiment on 220 children, some of whom will be as young as 10. This puberty blockers trial will be going ahead, despite the fact that Health Secretary Wes Streeting banned them last year, for being unsafe.
Who could do this to children when the very same people are probably in the streets demonstrating against animal testing and weeping at PETA commercials?
The modern progressive hypocrisy is stunning for its lack of humanity.
🚨“You don’t use kids as guinea pigs to find out the effects of chemicals on them! This western overindulgence is leading to fall of a civilization.”
— Talk (@TalkTV) November 24, 2025
Anger as under-16s are put on puberty blocker trial.@TVKev | @KiszelyPhilip pic.twitter.com/HiP6YkgER8
Child abuse is a problem until it is state-sanctioned abuse in pursuit of virtue-signalling social goals.
The drugs are the real deal, and this cruel experiment is meant to 'fill a gap' on what is a mental health crisis that only exists in confused, undeveloped minds (or often in their mothers' minds, frankly), not in their physical selves. They have routinely been born with all the appropriate naughty bits in place and functioning as advertised for their age.
Dozens of children will be given puberty blockers on the NHS from early next year after a trial was granted ethical approval.
The study by King’s College London will recruit about 250 girls and boys aged 10 to 15 who identify as transgender, and who have parental consent.
More than half will be injected with a hormone-suppressing drug that pauses the physical changes of puberty, such as breasts, periods or facial hair.
The trial is meant to fill an evidence gap about how best to treat gender dysphoria in children, but critics have threatened a High Court challenge to stop it, saying recruiting to the study is like putting “lambs to the slaughter”.
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, banned puberty blockers for under-18s in gender medicine last year over fears they were harmful. The drugs were given to children at the Tavistock clinic since 2011, but the NHS stopped using them in 2023 after the Cass review.
In her final report, Dr Hilary Cass warned of safety risks and recommended a trial into puberty blockers to fill an evidence gap.
So when it's all said and done, and there's residual, irreparable damage, and their dysphoria isn't 'treated,' but they can no longer have children, who apologises to these children? Who makes them whole again and how, when they cannot be made so?
Do you get a participation trophy to go with your ruined life?
'These children can't buy alcohol but we're allowing them to make themselves infertile...'@AlexhArmstrong speaks with Mental health and mindset coach Rae Michaelson about a new clinical trial in the UK to test puberty blockers on young Britons despite the ban. pic.twitter.com/RDnlz7L8kI
— GB News (@GBNEWS) November 22, 2025
The Women's Network is going to war with the government, pointing out, yet again, that no minor child can give informed consent.
They simply cannot.
As well as the fact that adolescence is a time of rapid development in any little one's body - nerves, bones and emotional growth. So many neurological changes have to occur for a healthy adult to form.
A Pathway To Hell
— Women's Rights Network - WRN (@WomensRightsNet) November 22, 2025
The Pathways trial — which will give puberty blockers to vulnerable children, is a pathway to horrific lifelong harms and litigation which could cost taxpayers millions of pounds.
No child can give informed consent to an experiment which carries significant… pic.twitter.com/mZw5JWkUum
...No child can give informed consent to an experiment which carries significant and well documented risks which include sterility, loss of sexual function, bone loss and possible cognitive impairment and increased cancer risk.
And whatever happened to letting children be themselves, however quirky that might be?
...@michaelsearles_ at @Telegraph quotes the Bayswater Group: “This trial will continue a shameful history in gender medicine of pathologising non-conformity” We agree. Gender non-conformity is not a medical condition. Why can’t we let children be children?
“There is already clear evidence of harm, and there is no ethical justification for subjecting another 200 children to puberty blockers.”
Leave those kids alone.
Who is going to protect the children from the state?
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