At some point it would be helpful if the Hillary Cass who has roundly condemned the use of puberty blockers as unevidenced pseudo science had a word with the Hillary Cass who thinks the puberty blocker trial is a great idea actually.

Dr Sam Hall interviewed by Mr Molly

Great. When that’s done, can Cass please call for an independent inquiry into how she recommended a Puberty Block Trial to conduct medical experiments on healthy children as young as 11?

Yesterday my son sat through a class where his teacher told him some people were born in the wrong body so they were the opposite sex or had no sex at all. I wasn’t informed this was part of the school curriculum (although I know it is). In the recent past parents were required to give permission for an adult, often outsourced non teaching staff, to speak to minor children about adult concepts like sexuality and gender identity. This is no longer the case. It is now up to us parents to know what our kids are being taught and by whom. Often kids are scared to tell because they know their parents, or any other reasonable adult, would be horrified and they are afraid of their parent making a scene. We need to reassure those kids that won’t happen so they don’t carry any confusion or anxiety they might be feeling about what they were being taught.

Esther Ghey has won a Pride of Britain Award for her tireless campaigning work after her daughter Brianna was tragically murdered in a premeditated attack by teenagers who had consumed extreme online violence.

One of the most disturbing aspects of this unfolding scandal is how successfully the public has been kept in the dark. If people understood the full extent of what has been happening to vulnerable children, I believe the outrage would be overwhelming. What the ideologues driving this agenda have achieved, with the willing connivance of progressive political parties and much of the media, is extraordinary. They’ve managed to dress up a child harming scandal as an emancipation movement, and present potentially devastating, irreversible interventions on vulnerable children as acts of kindness and compassion. And this is where I believe my own employer, the BBC, bears enormous responsibility. Had it subjected these claims to robust scrutiny from the outset, rather than actively promoting gender ideology, how many vulnerable children might have been spared life-altering harm that can never be undone? There have, of course, been notable exceptions at the BBC: a handful of journalists who have asked the difficult questions. But the occasional investigation on Newsnight or Panorama hardly has the same cut-through as the stories the BBC relentlessly promotes across its platforms. Consider how much attention Meghan Markle is receiving right now, compared with the scrutiny devoted to vulnerable children undergoing puberty suppression or irreversible surgery in the name of so-called progress. The BBC knows perfectly well how to make an issue impossible to ignore. The question is, why hasn’t it? Well, we know why: institutional capture. When the reckoning comes, as it surely will, and the children harmed by these interventions grow into adults forced to live with the devastating, irreversible consequences, those who were supposed to protect them must be held accountable for their betrayal. So too must the political and media establishment that put progressive virtue-signalling ahead of safeguarding vulnerable children, and ideological conformity ahead of confronting the harm being done. And I fear that the BBC, which has failed a generation of vulnerable young people so comprehensively, will find itself engulfed in the greatest scandal of its history.