A concerned mother has told how a chat forum acquaintance paid for her child’s sex-swap drugs.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, the mother of the gender-confused teenage boy said she was “horrified” to discover he had been taking oestrogen behind her back. The black-market drug, it later transpired, had been funded by a stranger.
The NHS is set to begin a puberty blocker trial, despite an indefinite ban on the drugs due to evidence that ‘the current prescribing pathway’ posed an “unacceptable safety risk” to children and young people.
‘Cult mind-control’
Relaying how the 16-year-old came by the sex-swap hormones, his mum said: “He didn’t have the money, so they paid for him to get some black market oestrogen. He got it sent to a friend who passed it on at school. And he managed to get shots and syringes from an STD clinic.”
She added: “It is cult mind-control stuff. They believe that the person trying to protect them from harm is their abuser. And online, people are saying to them, ‘We are your real friends, we are your real family.’”
A call to the police left her feeling “that we somehow were being abusive for trying to withhold urgent life-saving medicines”.
She concluded: “You just feel like your child’s being stolen from you, and the person you once knew is being replaced with a stranger. You still love the person inside, but it’s really hard, because they seem to be reading out someone else’s script. It is so frightening.”
Drug dealers
Tavistock whistleblower Dr Anna Hutchinson told The Times that 40 per cent of the gender-confused children attending her private clinic for psychological support are ‘self-medicating’.
She explained: “I’m seeing a surge of the older adolescents — the 15, 16, 17-year-olds — just skipping all medical supervision entirely, which I’m really worried about. A lot of them are on testosterone and oestrogen, and usually not with parental approval or any medical oversight.
“They either won’t tell us where they’re getting the hormones, or they’ll say they’re getting it from friends who are being prescribed legally and they’re sharing them. Some have told us they are getting them from illegal websites that sell anabolic steroids to weightlifters. Others say they get them from their drug dealers along with their ketamine.”
Royal Pharmaceutical Society President Professor Claire Anderson warned: “Buying medicines from unregulated sources or attempting to home-brew treatments poses serious risks to your health, as you can never be sure what they contain or what you have made.”
‘Deeply uncomfortable’
Health Secretary Wes Streeting remains committed to the upcoming puberty blockers trial despite admitting he is “not comfortable” with it.
King’s College London has been given funding of £10.7 million for the Pathways project, which includes the controversial trial. Puberty-blocking drugs will be given to children with “gender incongruence”, who will be monitored for two years with brain scans and tests.
Speaking to LBC radio, Streeting said: “Hilary Cass recommended we do a proper study. The pathways study involves a whole range of treatments and care, including therapeutic mental health support, but it also included a trial on this puberty blockers thing. I’m not comfortable, candidly, about it.”
However, he noted, “one thing we’ve learned in this whole area is not to shout down people who’ve got concerns”, saying “medication that delays or indeed stops a natural part of our human development, which is puberty, I’m deeply uncomfortable with”.
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