Maiming a generation! The medicalisation of gender non-conforming young people is the biggest medical scandal of our time! We’re in the middle of another medical disaster that rivals — some would say dwarfs — the Thalidomide affair. But unlike previous scandals, the medicalisation of gender non-conforming (GNC) young people has continued for years after clinicians first raised concerns. Disturbingly, these whistleblowers have been maligned by the pro-transition lobby and, worse, by fellow clinicians for speaking up. ...A couple of months later five further clinicians resigned, saying they felt treatment amounted to “conversion therapy” for young lesbian and gay people. They told of homophobic parents bringing in their GNC children to “correct” their aberrant behaviour. “There was dark joke among staff that there would be no gay people left,” two of them told The Times. #Thalidomide #SoniaAppleby #Gids #Tavistock #Gender #MedicalScandal #Medicalisation #Whistleblower #ConversionTherapy #TheTimes #Gay #Lesbian #GNC https://thecritic.co.uk/maiming-a-generation/