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Help therapist being attacked by Southern Poverty Law Center: LifeFunder

(LifeSiteNews) — It’s finally happening. Dr. Jordan Peterson predicted it would happen years ago; conservative lawyers have been warning of this outcome; feminist activists have been hoping for it: According to The Times, 1,000 families will be suing the Tavistock Clinic Gender and Identity Development Service (GIDS) over the transgender “treatments” given to minors.

If this unfolds the way The Times is reporting, the impact will be enormous: “Lawyers expect about 1,000 families to join a medical negligence lawsuit alleging vulnerable children have been misdiagnosed and placed on a damaging medical pathway.”

READ: Transgender ideology is gradually erasing women and girls from reality

Parents are accusing GIDS at the gender clinic of “multiple failures in its duty of care,” including “allegations that it recklessly prescribed puberty blockers with harmful side effects” and an “unquestioning, affirmative approach” to children who believed themselves to be transgender.

The Times reports that Pogust Goodhead, a law firm, has “announced it is pursuing a group litigation order against the trust, which has treated 19,000 children with gender dysphoria since 1989.” People treated at the clinic are already coming forward to join the class action, and it is reported that papers will be filed with the High Court within a half-year.

According to lawyer Tom Goodhead:

Children and young adolescents were rushed into treatment without the appropriate therapy and involvement of the right clinicians, meaning that they were misdiagnosed and started on a treatment pathway that was not right for them. These children have suffered life-changing and, in some cases, irreversible effects of the treatment they received…We anticipate that at least 1,000 clients will join this action.

The class action is likely to rely on a recent report by Dr. Hilary Cass that resulted in Tavistock’s announcement that it would be closing. Cass’s expert review warned of the long-term and likely permanent effects of puberty-blocking drugs. Cass told NHS England that the drugs could “interrupt the process of brain maturing, affecting children’s ability to exercise judgement.” The report concluded that despite the claims of Tavistock staff that the effects of the medication were “fully reversible,” the evidence does not bear this out.

Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgender Trend, told the Daily Mail: “I would imagine that parents who did not agree with the treatment or approach may now consider a challenge.”

Many parents were told that their children needed hormone therapy, mastectomies, and castration—or they would become suicidal and kill themselves. That was a vicious lie, but this potent emotional blackmail worked on thousands of parents. Many of them now feel betrayed, devastated, and furious. They trusted these medical professionals, and their children were physically ruined as a result.

READ: UK attorney general pushes back against trans ideology in schools

The Tavistock Clinic is closing. The U.K. government told schools earlier this week that it is against the law not to provide sex-segregated bathrooms, and that teachers are not required to use “preferred pronouns.” Dissenters from gender ideology are winning in court. And now, the lawsuits against the medical professionals who administered these treatments are beginning.

It very much appears that in the United Kingdom, at least, the transgender movement’s vice grip on the culture may finally be breaking.

Help therapist being attacked by Southern Poverty Law Center: LifeFunder
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Jonathon’s writings have been translated into more than six languages and in addition to LifeSiteNews, has been published in the National Post, National Review, First Things, The Federalist, The American Conservative, The Stream, the Jewish Independent, the Hamilton Spectator, Reformed Perspective Magazine, and LifeNews, among others. He is a contributing editor to The European Conservative.

His insights have been featured on CTV, Global News, and the CBC, as well as over twenty radio stations. He regularly speaks on a variety of social issues at universities, high schools, churches, and other functions in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

He is the author of The Culture War, Seeing is Believing: Why Our Culture Must Face the Victims of Abortion, Patriots: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Pro-Life Movement, Prairie Lion: The Life and Times of Ted Byfield, and co-author of A Guide to Discussing Assisted Suicide with Blaise Alleyne.

Jonathon serves as the communications director for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform.

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