Health Secretary Wes Streeting has been urged to stop the “absolutely ridiculous” puberty blocker trial due to take place, as Clare Muldoon declared the move “abject child abuse”.
Speaking to GB News, the commentator expressed her concern for the children taking part in the trial and said it is the “responsibility of Government” to “keep those children safe”.
Following a High Court challenge to try and block the trial, rival MPs have now issued a joint letter calling for it to be halted.
In a joint piece for the Daily Express, Labour MP Jonathan Hinder and Conservative MP Rebecca Paul branded the trial an “immoral experiment” on children.
Delivering her verdict on the trial, Ms Muldoon told GB News: “Rival MPs have issued a joint plea to Wes Streeting today to stop the trial of puberty blockers on children. This, of course, comes from the advice of the Cass report that said, at the end of the report, which in itself actually mirrored what the Supreme Court ruling had said.
“But then at the end it said, ‘well, we’ll need more evidence to support the fact that children should not be given puberty blockers. Therefore, in order to prove that, we’re going to have to get a sample size of children to test it’, children as young as eight. Now come on, this is absolutely ridiculous.”
She added: “The man in charge of the NHS, Wes Streeting has been elected on the Labour manifesto, he himself has come out quite rightly and said this isn’t right in any way, shape or form. My view is it’s abject child abuse, and no parents should allow their children to go through this.
“Puberty is an awful time for children, it can be to go through. We should be affirming these children first before we’re affirming them to say they’re not in the right body. I’m sorry, that does not wash with me at all. We need to ban it altogether. I don’t think we need the evidence to support the fact that we do need a trial. Just stop it, just say no.”
Clare Muldoon has called for a ban on the upcoming puberty blocker trial, declaring it ‘abject child abuse’
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Asked by host Miriam Cates why she believes Wes Streeting has taken a different stance on the trial, commentator Judita Dasilva said: “The thing I like a lot about Wes Streeting is that he does seem to be more of a full disclosure type of politician, and he said personally he’s not for it.
“But because he had met young people, children and their families who were in distress as a result of it, he said it is my duty to have consideration for them as well, that is why he is in two minds about this.”
Miriam hit back: “Children do get distressed about things, and that’s not to minimise their distress, but as adults we know that they will come through it.
“So let’s say he met a family with anorexic children, that’s obviously very distressing. If those anorexic children were saying, ‘please stop force feeding me, I’m fat’, would he say ‘yes I agree, you’re fat, we’ll stop force feeding you’, because they’re distressed?”
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he is ‘not comfortable’ with the trial, though he plans to go ahead | REUTERS
Ms Dasilva responded: “It’s two things, it’s political optics and an actual practical application. For the optics of it, he should be seen to be listening, which is saying I’m in two minds and I’m having the consideration.
“But I do agree that when you’re young, you’re supposed to be confused, you’re supposed to be lost, you’re supposed to be questioning everything, and it’s the adults’ responsibility to steer you.”
She continued: “According to those two MPs, over 2,000 children over 15 years have had puberty blockers, so you have a group you can study to see short term and long term effects. Look to them first.
“Because a lot of the time, what therapists have said is that it’s questions on sexuality or it’s just like growing pains or people you like don’t like you back. These are all the things that happen in that period of life, and it’s our duty to make difficult situations that make us very unpopular with young people, but it’s our responsibility to make them.”
The GB News panel debated the upcoming trial
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Ms Muldoon told GB News: “It’s their responsibility to keep them safe, and nothing about the recommendation at the end of that Cass report will make children safe.
“We’ve got the de-transitioners that are there to say this is wrong, please stop injuring our bodies and please stop giving us the puberty blockers, because it’s not right and it’s not working.”
In a statement, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: “Children with gender incongruence need to have access to high-quality, safe and effective care.
“We are following the Cass Review, which was clear that the evidence on care for these children in lacking, and proposed this research help provide it.”