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Notes

1 A reasonable estimate is that over 35% per cent of children referred are on the autism spectrum.

2 Serious concerns have been raised as to the long term effects on bone and brain developments, as well as on psychological development - see for example https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjebmspotlight/2019/02/25/gender-affirming-hormone-in-children-and-adolescents-evidence-review/

3 See: https://childpsychotherapy.org.uk/acp-report-silent-catastrophe.

4 See for example Haider (2018). Fraser N Rethinking Recognition, New Left Review May/June 2000.

5 I have written on this in a paper written at the time of the entry of the market form into the UK National Health System, which marked the beginning of the destruction of the welfare consensus; see Bell (1997).

6 See Littman, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330. The most explosive of Littman’s findings may be that among the young people reported on – 83 per cent of whom were designated female at birth – more than one-third had friendship groups in which 50 per cent or more of the youths began to identify as transgender in a similar time frame.

7 It is high time that the makers of puberty blockers were barred from providing support for conferences discussing gender dysphoria, given their direct interests in maintaining what has become a very lucrative market.