The Lie of Gender Identity
A Foundational Belief of the Cult of Critical Social Justice
A post for everyone as I think this is important. Also available as a PDF, see below.
A fiery tirade meets cold, hard evidence in this takedown of the "gender identity" myth, fusing blistering outrage with data from Johns Hopkins’ 1979 rejection to Tavistock’s wreckage, laying bare a deranged ideology rotting society to its very core.
Gandalf the Gray 2025
The belief in "gender identity" has ballooned from a speculative psychiatric hypothesis of dubious grounding into a corrosive ideology that has infiltrated British society from Universities (who should have known better) to medicine, law, education, and culture, now packaged as part of the EDI/DEI scam still in full flow in the UK. All this and leaving a trail of irreversible harm, societal damage, and mass psychosis. But how did we get here, it is somewhat complicated to say the least.
Originating with Robert Stoller in the 1960s, this concept has been propelled by a cast of clinicians and so called “allies”, activist groups like Press for Change (founded by Stephen Whittle and Christine Burns), and figures like Susie Green of Mermaids, who infamously castrated her son.
Johns Hopkins University’s prescient withdrawal from such practices in the 1970s was predicated on the realisation that fetishistic desires were the drivers, the UK ploughed ahead, fuelled by the Beaumont Society, Stonewall’s betrayal of gays and lesbians, the LGBT Foundation’s medical pipeline, and schools "transing the gay away" under the ever expanding "LGBTQIA+" umbrella.
The UK have ignored mounting evidence of harm and malpractice, despite the work of many people, women predominantly, who have been pointing at this danger for decades. As Johns Hopkins shuttered its doors this historical retreat was a warning grounded in data and ethics; the UK’s failure to heed it decades later, unleashed a fetish driven cult ideology on its youth and society, one that stretches back over 80 years.
The evidence of damage is incontrovertible, sterilised youth, eroded women’s rights, the assault on gays and lesbians and a fetish driven distortion of reality. As the UK presses ahead with experimentation on children in 2025, we need an end to all medical interventions rooted in this baseless myth, for everyone, with no exceptions, and then you and I begin the mammoth task of the eradication of the cult and its fetid beliefs from across society, a task that will take at least a decade.
But who were the proponents of this cult, who led us down this road to hell, paved with their possibly good (Hanlon’s Razor), if insane intentions?
Well, let’s see if we can unravel it, for what follows is polemic, a narrative, a tale to be told, and as to its veracity I shall leave that to you, for in today’s world curiosity is king, and I hope this prompts you to look further, after all, I might just be as mad as a box of frogs. So, to start it is to the current situation that we now turn, and the figure of James Palmer, who supplies the contemporary book end for the story that follows.
James Palmer and the NHS
The NHS Medical Director for Specialised Services since 2013, whose fingerprints are all over this current debacle is also the overseer of specialised commissioning, Palmer chaired the National Programme Board for Gender Identity Services, a role that made him the architect-in-chief of the NHS’s continued indulgence of clinics like Charing Cross.
Under his watch, the clinic did not just persist, it thrived, expanding its reach and entrenching its gender identity fantasy-based work. Palmer’s tenure saw millions funnelled into this system, with NHS England boasting of £4.4 million extra for genital reconstruction in 2015 alone, all while he appeared to sidestep (who knows his motivations?) the mounting chorus of detransitioner and critics screaming about the wreckage left behind.
Far from questioning the pseudoscientific roots or the fetishistic undertones of the "transgender" wave that J. Michael Bailey’s (subsequently excommunicated by the medical priesthood) The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003) exposed, and that was flagged by McHugh and others, Palmer appeared to double down, championing “service specifications” and “patient pathways” as if slapping bureaucratic polish on a meat grinder made it noble. Charing Cross, under his NHS regime, did not just stumble into this, it was steered there, a ship of recklessness with Palmer at the helm.
The 2020 Bell v Tavistock ruling, gutting youth transitioning, should’ve been a wakeup call, adult clinics like Charing Cross deserve the same reckoning after all, Instead, they double down, peddling hormones like candy to fetishists cloaked as "patients" and scarring vulnerable children, many of them autistic or likely to end up gay or lesbian.
Britain continues to lean into “gender identity” fiction invented by Robert Stoller and others, letting it fester unchecked through the NHS with activist campaigns, rainbow badges, affinity groups and days for this and that. The body count of broken lives grows, and the NHS, with blood on its hands, blithely continues to believe, expressing that belief through psychological interventions such as EDI/DEI and LGBTQIA+ propaganda.
Need convincing? Then perhaps dig into researchers like Lisa Littman (2018), and plain-spoken sceptics that shred this narrative daily, there are many on X and elsewhere. All you need is curiosity and the courage to change your mind.
This is not progress; it is a medical scandal rivalling lobotomies and eugenics. It stands as a monument to the establishment’s betrayal, the legacy is not any kind of care; it is a cautionary tale of medicine gone mad, sacrificing science for a fetish fuelled ideology, eventually to be incorporated in the rotten edifice of EDI/DEI and sold to the public as an unquestionable good. A sales process whose pitch included blackmail, passive and overt aggression and social ostracization if necessary, gleefully unleashed on the unbelievers by the deranged shock troops of rotten academic disciplines taught by ideologically driven extremist academics.
And the establishment? The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the NHS be damned for propping up this revolting cult and its practices. They have created a Frankenstein lab, not a health service, bankrolled by taxpayers, external funders, and big pharma to appease a vocal minority of useful idiots, paraphilics, fetishists, insane neo-liberals, and hard left lunatics who cannot resist the collective urge for control. Palmer, it appears is pivotal to our current malaise, but we must go back to see the appalling vista clearly.
The Beaumont Society for Cross Dressing Fetishists
The Beaumont Society, a fetishistic retreat for men in frocks, desperate to dodge the taint of “deviance” beyond their wardrobes. Birthed in 1966 as Britain’s first transgender support group, slipped out of the shadows not as a beacon of liberation but as a cloistered club for heterosexual crossdressers, steeped in homophobia and secrecy.
Founded as the UK arm of the American Full Personality Expression (FPE), a covert outfit started by Virginia Prince, it took its name from the Chevalier d’Éon de Beaumont, a French diplomat who was a committed cross-dressing fetishist. Alice Purnell and Alga Campbell spearheaded its launch, hosting a clandestine first meeting in Southampton with a dozen attendees, two being wives dragged along to prop up the façade of respectability.
They were both transvestites, Purnell, a research chemist turned activist embraced hi AGP by the 1970s after attending Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic (Trans Britain, 2018). His early Beaumont Society days were marked by cross-dressing, a male body in women’s clothes, chasing a fetishistic thrill he later spun as “identity,” sound familiar folks? Alga Campbell, from Dublin, was also male, a founder alongside Purnell in 1966 and clinically obsessed with transvestism - not homosexuality, mind you, since they banned the gays (Beaumont Bulletin, 1968). The Society’s homophobic origins and fetish-driven vibe, as Malcolm Clarke (@TwisterFilm) notes, scream male privilege playacting womanhood, not some deep truth, in essence woman face.
Homophobia was not a bug; it was the blueprint. The Society explicitly banned gay members, with Purnell declaring “no hint of overt gayness would be tolerated” (Trans Britain, 2018). This was not just pragmatism in a hostile 1960s Britain, where sodomy laws lingered until 1967, it was a deliberate snub. They aped Prince’s FPE playbook, which shunned homosexuals to polish their image as “normal” men with a quirky hobby, not sexual outcasts.
The Beaumont Bulletin, their members only rag from 1968 and now unavailable until 2059, obsessed over makeup tips and skirt sizes, not rights or solidarity, reinforcing the fetish. Stephen Whittle, a female cross dresser who joined in 1975, we will discuss shortly.
The Society pitched itself as educational, whispering to doctors and lawyers about “transvestism” while clutching pearls at broader liberation. Its 1974 Leeds conference, Transvestism and Transsexuality in Modern Society, was a tepid toe dip, not a rallying cry, more academic navel gazing than street fight. By 1975, it birthed the Beaumont Trust and a helpline, gesturing at charity, but its real thrust was socials for closeted men, not systemic change.
By the 1990s, under pressure, larping fetishists of both sexes and mentally ill folks of all stripes joined the party as Press for Change, cofounded by Whittle, and began the long journey of normalising a mental illness as an identity, fuelled by early roots in American Sexology and perverse experimentation involving children. Enter Money and Kinsey.
Money and Kinsey
John Money, the New Zealand-born psychologist who pushed the now-discredited “gender identity” theory, crossed paths with Alfred Kinsey, the Indiana zoologist turned sex researcher, in the mid-20th century. Kinsey’s Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (1948) and Female (1953) had already jolted academia with their data on sexual practices, including taboo stuff like homosexuality and paedophilia.
Alfred Kinsey’s writings include Table 34, a notorious chart that logs “pre-adolescent male orgasms” based on stopwatch-timed observations of boys aged 5 months to 14 years. It lists data like a 4-year-old reaching 26 “orgasms” in 24 hours and an 11-month-old hitting 10 in an hour, sourced from interviews with adults, some paedophiles, recalling or reporting sexual acts with kids.
Kinsey claimed this proved children are sexual from birth, a cornerstone of his ideology that’s shaped modern sex education and fed Queer Theory and the charlatan Judith Butler.
When Money emerged in the 1950s at Johns Hopkins. Money’s work on intersex children, where he claimed nurture could override nature, leaned on Kinsey’s normalisation of sexual fluidity (again, sound familiar), though he took it to freakier extremes with his forced experiments like the David Reimer case.
Kinsey ran the Institute for Sex Research (now Kinsey Institute), hosting conferences and swapping letters with emerging scholars like Money. Correspondence logs from Indiana University’s Kinsey archives show they exchanged ideas.
Money invented “lovemaps” in the 1980s (Lovemaps, 1986) as mental templates of ideal arousal, twisted by nurture or trauma—think fetish blueprints. Kinsey’s data, including paedophile-sourced “orgasms,” greased this wheel, suggesting even infants have sexual scripts.
Judith Reisman called it perverted pseudoscience, a roadmap to excuse deviance, not explain it. She is right, he is exploiting Piaget’s work on schema in children for his own perverse ends, any child with a fetish schema was given it by an adult and that should be called what it is, child abuse.
Reisman (Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences, 1998) damns them both as perverts in cahoots, Kinsey for fetishizing raw data, Money for mutilating kids to prove it. Their link was not deep, but it is real: two men obsessed with sex, one counting orgasms, the other carving identities, both leaving a trail of wreckage. Kinsey’s death cut it short, but Money carried the torch into darker corners.
Stoller’s Mirage and Johns Hopkins’ Rejection
In 1964, Robert Stoller, a psychiatrist at UCLA’s Gender Identity Clinic, introduced the concept of "gender identity," defining it as an internal "sense" of being male or female, distinct from biological sex or societal roles. His work focused on transsexuals and intersex patients, culminating in his 1968 book Sex and Gender: On the Development of Masculinity and Femininity, where he speculated, without rigorous empirical evidence, that this "sense" emerged from a murky blend of early childhood experiences, parental dynamics (often blaming mothers for "disturbed" identities), and unproven "biological forces" (Stoller, 1968).
Stoller pushed for medical interventions like hormone therapy and surgery, laying a foundation tailor made for fetishistic exploitation, such as autogynephilia, where men derive sexual gratification from imagining themselves as women. No objective measure, be it a brain scan, genetic marker, or physiological test, has ever validated this "identity"; it remains a psychoanalytic conjecture dressed up as scientific fact, ripe for misuse by paraphiliacs seeking legitimacy, deranged Transhausen parents, corporate monsters in big pharma, left wing identitarians and lunatic liberals, the latter two being the blight that infects education across the sector.
Johns Hopkins University, an early pioneer in gender reassignment surgery, offered a stark and sobering counterpoint to Stoller’s theories. In the 1960s, under the influence of John Money the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic, led by surgeon John Hoopes, began performing sex reassignment surgeries, making it one of the first U.S. institutions to do so (Man & Woman, Boy & Girl, Money & Ehrhardt, 1972). Money’s work, including his infamous attempt to raise David Reimer as a girl after a botched circumcision, which led to not one but two suicides, bolstered the idea that identity could be shaped surgically, a premise as insane as Stoller’s vision of Mr Potato Head humans, who can be altered at his will.
By 1979, this grotesque experiment unravelled under the scrutiny of psychiatrist Paul McHugh, who assumed leadership of the psychiatry department in 1975 and realised with horror the lack of psychological improvement in postoperative patients and the damage these unethical surgical procedures caused, not just to the patient, but to society as a whole, reinforcing paraphilic desires and normalising fetishism.
McHugh commissioned a follow up study, published in 1979 by Jon Meyer and Donna Reter, which tracked outcomes of 50 gender reassignment applicants at Johns Hopkins. The findings were damning, half were motivated by paraphilic impulses, crossdressing fetishes, erotic fantasies, or other sexual deviations, rather than a coherent, stable "identity" (Meyer & Reter, 1979).
The study found no significant reduction in psychiatric morbidity post-surgery; patients remained as distressed, if not more so, regretting the irreversible changes and serious damage such as sterility, chronic pain, and mutilated bodies, all in the name of a delusion that failed to resolve anything let alone the non-existent fantasy at the heart of the gross malpractice that is “trans” the only surgery we carry out that has a 100% failure rate.
McHugh concluded that these interventions were treating a "mental disorder" with physical destruction, not a medical condition warranting such radical measures. In his 2004 essay "Surgical Sex," he reasoned that the gender identity concept was a "fantasy" exploited by fetishists and enabled by clinicians chasing trends, not truth (McHugh, 2004). Johns Hopkins terminated its program in 1979, a decisive rejection that stood as a clarion call: "gender identity" is a fetishistic sham, not a legitimate basis for medical necessity.
This retreat reverberated beyond medicine into popular culture, notably in Brian De Palma’s 1980 thriller Dressed to Kill. The film features an autogynephilic character, "Bobbi," whose backstory nods to Johns Hopkins’ gender reassignment work, portraying the fetishistic alter ego of Dr. Robert Elliott, who emerges the minute he gets aroused, cross dressing to show a disturbed figure driven by sexual obsession and violence, not a wholesome "identity" as so many lie about. Film scholar Robin Wood critiqued this as a reflection of De Palma’s scepticism toward the emerging trans cult, aligning with McHugh’s view of paraphilic underpinnings (Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan, Wood, 1986).
While fictional, Dressed to Kill amplified public unease about gender interventions, tying them to fetishism rather than authenticity, a cultural echo of Johns Hopkins’ about turn. Ironically, Lesbians picketed the film, but as part of a wider protest at violence against women in cinema, in retrospect this was a misinterpretation of the film, which vividly shows the danger to women posed by the myth of “trans” and the pampering of fetishist and paraphiliac men.
Further bolstering this critique, psychiatrist Charles Ihlenfeld, a former collaborator with endocrinologist Harry Benjamin (a Stoller ally), left the field in the late 1970s after six years of treating patients. Ihlenfeld warned that 80% of cases he saw were better addressed through psychotherapy, not surgery, citing underlying psychological issues, often sexual in nature, over a fixed "identity" (Ihlenfeld, 1978, cited in Galileo’s Middle Finger, Dreger, 2015). His exit paralleled Johns Hopkins’ closure, reinforcing the view that gender identity was a mirage exploited by paraphiliacs, not a condition meriting butchery masquerading as surgery.
The so called "gender identity" movement in the United Kingdom found its medical foothold in the mid-20th century, with the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic emerging as its flagship of foolishness. Established in its modern form in 1966 at Charing Cross Hospital in London, this clinic did not spring from some noble scientific breakthrough but rather piggybacked on the dubious legacy of sexology fetishists.
Witness Magnus Hirschfeld whose 1920s Berlin experiments with cross dressing and "transvestite" identity reeked of nothing more than decadence masquerading as medicine, along with the hormone peddling tricks of Harry Benjamin (more later) in America.
By the 1960s, Charing Cross had become the NHS’s pet project for indulging what critics, like psychiatrist Paul McHugh (Johns Hopkins, 1979), have long damned as a psychological delusion: "gender dysphoria," a term concocted to dignify what is little more than a fetishistic obsession with playing dress up in the opposite sex’s skin, woman face to all intents and purposes.
From the outset, Charing Cross operated as a factory of fiction, cloaking its operations in psychiatric jargon to justify mutilating healthy bodies. Patients faced a gauntlet of assessments, but was this to uncover truth, or to rubber stamp their delusions with hormone injections and surgical butchery?
By the 1990s, it had relocated to Hammersmith, strengthening its status as the NHS’s shrine to this fetish, driven cult, churning out "transgender" converts like a grotesque assembly line with testosterone for women, oestrogen for men, scalpels to carve new genitals, the clinic peddled these as "care," building on a foundation of pseudoscience that echoed the reckless endocrinology of the mid-20th century.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) enshrined this farce in 1980 as "gender identity disorder" (later softened to "dysphoria" in DSM,5, 2013), proving not scientific rigor but the cowardice of a profession bowing to cultural rot. McHugh, in his 2016 essay "Transgender Medicine: A Review," torched this charade, arguing it’s a mental disorder, not a medical condition warranting scalpels, yet the NHS ignored him, addicted to its role as fetish enabler, the suicidal empathy and weakening mantras of be kind, own truth and authenticity now embedded in the rotting organisation subsequently Teflon coated gender through the EDI/DEI scam that proliferated with such ease and such cost.
As for the surgeries? A grotesque gamble with infections, fistulas, and regret, look at the detransition narratives flooding X posts in 2025, voices the medical elite dismiss as inconvenient, unworthy of follow up and apparently just the cost of doing business. the walking wounded of the hideous neo-liberal and hard left legacy that is EDI/DEI. The clinic’s gatekeeping, once strict, despite the whole thing being fantasy, crumbled under activist pressure, letting fetishists and the confused alike queue up for irreversible ruin. Walt Heyer, a detransitioner, screams it in his 2018 book Trans Life Survivors, this isn’t healing, its mutilation sold as liberation.
The dangers? Look at the carnage. Hormone therapy, pushed by Charing Cross since the ‘60s, wrecks bodies with infertility, blood clots, and cancer risks, as studies like Dhejne et al. (2011) hint at through elevated mortality rates post transition and the recent study (Examining gender-specific mental health risks after gender-affirming surgery: a national database study (2025)). Confirms what anyone with half a brain could have told us, the whole thing is harmful from root to tip.
The Tavistock Clinic’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), launched in 1989, would embrace blockers and hormones, interventions Johns Hopkins had deemed futile and harmful, thus setting the stage for a national reckoning decades later.
It is time to start calling gender dysphoria what it is: a sham, a fetish dressed up as a diagnosis. Ray Blanchard’s typology (1980s) nails it, autogynephilia, a sexual kink where men get off on imagining themselves as women, lies at the root of this madness for many. The medical establishment, drunk on hubris, swallowed this whole, with Charing Cross as its eager apostle and Tavistock the willing acolyte, both turning private fixations into public policy.
Domenico Di Ceglie and Norman Spack
Domenico Di Ceglie and Norman Spack, twin architects of ruin, presided over a chilling era of child experimentation, both psychosocial and physiological. From 1989 to 2009, Di Ceglie’s work at the Tavistock Clinic’s GIDS twisted a fantasy driven promise into a disturbing pipeline that led to “transing the gay away” as what started small metastasised into a national beast, partnering with University College London Hospitals to harm kids with puberty blockers and place them on the train that assured over 90% would go on to cross sex hormones.
Across the Atlantic, Spack, from 2007, ruled his Gender Management Service at Boston Children’s Hospital, inspired by Di Ceglie and John Money, peddling the same drugs as salvation. Spack evangelized blockers as a reversible pause and his clinic pushed drugs like Lupron onto preteens, ignoring long-term risks, brittle bones, brain fog, and shattered futures. Spack’s zeal ignored the voices of detransitioners, kids who awoke to the horror of altered voices and barren wombs, their childhoods stolen by his hubris. He sold a lie of reversibility, condemning trusting families to experimental risk under the guise of progress.
Di Ceglie and Spack, once hailed as pioneers, now stand as cautionary figures in a dark narrative of child harm, their work, intentionally or otherwise, was cloaked in compassion, yet their actions unleashed irreversible consequences on vulnerable children. The road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions.
The 2022 Cass Review exposed the wreckage: thousands languished on waitlists, then faced rushed interventions with scant evidence of safety. GIDS, Di Ceglie’s brainchild, became a factory of shame until its long overdue closure, leaving behind a generation grappling with sterility and stunted bodies, all tracing back to his reckless framework and the work of the early sexologists.
Together, they turned clinics into laboratories, their “care” a gamble with children’s lives. They peddled untested theories, leaving scars no apology can heal. History will judge them not as healers, for firstly do no harm seems to have taken a back seat these days.
WPATH: A History of Harm
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), originally the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA), emerged in 1979 as a self-proclaimed authority on gender dysphoria. Founded by a cadre of doctors including Harry Benjamin, Paul Walker, Richard Green, and others, it aimed to standardise care for “transgender individuals” during an era of clinical experimentation.
Named after Benjamin, a pioneer who saw transgender identity as a condition to be “fixed,” WPATH’s early years were steeped in a gatekeeping ethos, framing gender variance as a mental illness requiring strict oversight. HBIGDA’s Standards of Care (SOC), first published in 1979, enforced rigid gatekeeping. with mandatory psychiatric evaluations, psychotherapy, and the “real-life test,” living as their identified gender for up to a year before hormones, which exists in the UK today and is still a ridiculous notion, that in hindsight smacks of appeasement and an inability to say no.
These early SOC versions, prioritised placation, a situation that must have been fed by the doubts that existed and the lack of any evidence as a base, it seems the dangers of suicidal empathy and compassion over reason seem writ large here.
By 1998’s trans activists decried this appeasing approach, starting the move towards acceptance of delusion as an “identity” and laying further foundations to the mess we see today. In 2006 HBIGDA rebranded as WPATH, signalling a move toward activism masked as healthcare, and we are off and running.
Enter Stephen Whittle in 2007 as president, under her, WPATH’s SOC 7 (2011) embraced “depsychopathologisation,” a word straight out of the postmodern “words create reality” playbook, and deeply entwined with queer theory, enabling the reframing of gender as a spectrum, pushing for self ID where any Tom, Dick and Harriet could pretend to be the opposite sex. This deliberate ideological turn, cemented in SOC 8 (2022), promoted puberty blockers and hormones with claims of rigor, where there was none, in other words, we were no longer in Kansas, and the fantasy was embedded deeper in our medical and cultural psyche.
Under Whittle WPATH’s influence soared, shaping NHS policies and Endocrine Society guidelines, then just when you think this make believe and damaging boondoggle could not get worse, it out did itself and introduced a chapter on eunuchs, framing them as a gender identity under the transgender umbrella, yes really, fetish anyone?
The eunuch chapter’s origins trace to the Eunuch Archives, an online forum hosting thousands of castration fantasies, including graphic stories of coerced mutilation, some involving minors. WPATH contributors, notably Thomas W. Johnson, a retired anthropologist, drew on this site for SOC 8 and as key author of the chapter, had researched voluntary castration and linked it to “male-to-eunuch gender dysphoria.” Reports by REDUXX, a source of vital information in this arena, revealed the Archives’ content included paedophilic and abusive themes, yes, they did say the quiet bit out loud.
Michael Shellenberger followed this with his 2024 “WPATH Files,” revealing leaked internal messages showed WPATH members admitting the experimental nature of treatments like blockers and surgeries, often without informed consent on children. Shellenberger’s report, condemned WPATH’s pseudoscientific practices, likening them to historical medical atrocities. NHS England was forced to distance itself from SOC 8, further inflaming a global debate over WPATH’s credibility, which, we must remember should never have been awarded in the first place.
Not much changed, the resilience of the fantasy of “gender identity” seeming impervious to logic or reason, and the believers with cult like covetousness grasp on to their odious beliefs. Even these revelations on WPATH did not dismantle this framework, reflecting a reluctance to abandon its origins and the glare of a furious public and a criminal justice system that by all things sane, should be licking its lips.
Despite the lack of any empirical evidence for its need at all, no other requirements, barring unwavering belief, have been needed for this to be treated as serious, what we are left with is the desires of the fetishistic, the pleadings of the mentally ill, and a quick fix solution to a society that abhorred tom boys and camp children, and pandered to homophobic parents. It seems we have not yet fully drawn back the curtain on this particular wizard as current events attest.
In the Shadow of GIRES
The Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES), founded in 1997 by Bernard and Terry Reed, promised to illuminate the lives of transgender individuals through research and advocacy. Born from their daughter Niki’s landmark sex discrimination case against Chessington World of Adventures, GIRES positioned itself as a beacon of progress. Yet, beneath its noble veneer, as seems a common theme across the landscape of so called “gender medicine” lies a history of careless influence and harm, particularly to vulnerable youth.
GIRES emerged during a critical era for trans rights, contributing to the 2004 Gender Recognition Act and collaborating with groups like the Parliamentary Forum on Gender Identity, which now seems as utterly insane as it was then. Its early work leaned on lived experiences and scientific claims, aiming to destigmatize gender diversity.
The Reeds, as founders, guided figures like Helen and Michael Webberley, whose online clinic, GenderGP, flouted prescribing rules for puberty blockers and hormones. Michael Webberley’s 2022 suspension from medicine give emphasis to the fallout, GIRES’s fingerprints linger on this scandal, its guidance a stepping stone to further harm, feeding directly into the mass psychosis we see today.
The charity’s role in pushing puberty blockers, often via its influence on NHS guidelines and conferences like the 2005 GIRES symposium, fuelled a medicalisation pathway again ignoring the evidence of harm in favour of ideological fervour.
The promotion of puberty blockers can be seen in NHS-funded videos urging their use "as soon as possible," based on zero evidence, potentially irreversible outcomes like sterility, ignoring long-term risks
A 2022 survey paper by GIRES revealed severe mental health declines, depression, self-harm, and suicidal ideation, among trans youth post-blocker bans, yet critics contend GIRES frames this as justification for continued use rather than questioning the interventions’ safety.
Its guidance to figures like the Webberleys, linked to reckless prescribing, and influence on policies bypassing robust scrutiny, amplify the culpability they have in this fiasco, for it prioritises ideology over child welfare, safeguarding and psychological damage under the guise of support.
This indicates a very worrying trend that we have as a society abandoned safeguarding on this front, for if we cannot protect children from the lie of “trans” and the grasping covetous claws of activist educators, what can we protect them from.
This was from the start and remains a massive red flag that we still do not treat as such, much to our shame.
Press for Change: Whittle, Burns and Ontological Warfare
Press for Change (PFC), founded in 1992 by Stephen Whittle and Christine Burns, weaponised the shaky psychological musings of Robert Stoller into a political battering ram that smashed through British law and society. Whittle, a trans man and legal scholar, and Burns, a trans woman and activist, launched their crusade from a gritty Manchester flat, turning a fringe newsletter into a juggernaut that rewrote the rules of reality.
Stollers peddled pseudoscience of "gender identity" as a fixed, internal sense separate from biology (Sex and Gender, 1968), was latched onto by PFC like a gospel, twisting it from spurious academic speculation into a cudgel for their agenda. By 2004, their relentless lobbying birthed the Gender Recognition Act (GRA), a legal sleight-of-hand letting adults swap their sex on paper with a flimsy "gender dysphoria" diagnosis and two years of playing dress-up, no surgery, no proof, just vibes (Gender Recognition Act 2004, c. 7). This was the cornerstone of a big lie enshrined in law, a cult’s charter that turned courts into fetish affirming factories where pronouns are king, and assaulted women must abide by them.
Their 1996 manifesto, Engendered Penalties, (Whittle et al., 1996), laid bare the scheme: "gender identity" as a human right, untethered from chromosomes, hormones, or flesh—a fantasy dressed up as justice (Burns, 2007, Trans Britain). Whittle’s legal pontificating and Burns’ grassroots hustle opened a Pandora’s box, handing paraphiliacs a golden ticket, legal protections for what critics like Ray Blanchard (Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1989) peg as the previously mentioned autogynephilia, not some noble truth.
PFC’s triumph was not liberation; it was a predator’s playground, ripe for abuse by those seeking validation or, worse, access to children. Look at the fallout with stories of "trans-identified" men worming into women’s spaces, prisons, shelters, schools, enabled by the existence of the GRA, a system Whittle and Burns built brick by fetishistic brick.
This subsequently enabled the rise of the cult, and gender ideologies addition to the pantheon of noble causes that the EDI/DEI crowd worship, rooted in the Equality Act 2010, and fertilised by the public sector equality duty (PSED), the fuse that lit an industry intent on equity, yes that murderous ideology of the past, beloved of communists and fascists both, epitomised in Hitler, Stalin and Mao and the antithesis of science, the enlightenment and our way of life in the UK.
Their tentacles stretch further. By the late 1990s, PFC strong-armed Stonewall, the gay rights titan, into swallowing the "T" in "LGBT" (Stonewall Annual Report, 2001). It was a shotgun wedding at best, gay and lesbian struggles yoked to a trans crusade that cared more for pronouns than same-sex love, diluting a movement with what Janice Raymond (The Transsexual Empire, 1979) called a "patriarchal" distortion.
Whittle, with his professorial swagger at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Burns, networking like a machine (chronicled in Trans Britain, 2018), didn’t just stop at law, they sank their claws into the NHS. Their pressure forced funding for gender clinics like Charing Cross, reversing the wisdom of Johns Hopkins, where Paul McHugh shuttered such nonsense in 1979 (First Things, 2004).
NHS England’s 2015 pledge of £4.4 million for genital butchery (NHS Commissioning Report, 2017) owes its life to PFC’s lobbying, a pipeline pumping hormones and lifelong damage into a generation of gullible fools fed by the education system riddled with the culturally hard left and neoliberals.
They leave a fetish-driven dystopia, not liberation. Children, some as young as 10 got herded onto the "trans train" via the Tavistock’s GIDS, a monster PFC’s activism helped spawn (Cass Review Interim Report, 2022). Puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, sterility, regret the data’s damning: as previously Dhejne et al. (2011, PLoS ONE) show elevated suicide rates post-transition, while detransitioners like Keira Bell (Bell v Tavistock, 2020) expose the lie of "affirmation." Whittle and Burns did not free anyone; they built a conveyor belt to despair, addicting kids to drugs, snipping their futures, and leaving them in pain, physical and psychic, while the NHS and much of our society played enabler.
When Susie Green met Mermaids
The story of Susie Green, former CEO of Mermaids, is well known in GC and Gay circles, as it stands as a chilling emblem of the transgender ideology’s human toll, a mother turned zealot whose actions scarred her own child and countless others. In 2009, she whisked her 16-year-old son, Jackie, to Thailand for castration, a procedure banned in the UK for minors due to its barbarity.
She’d already primed him with puberty blockers, stunting his genital growth until his penis was too "tiny" for a standard neovagina, a problem she laughed off in her 2012 TEDx talk as a quirky hurdle surgery could "fix" (TEDx, 2012), (The same TED X talk where you can see her homophobia in technicolour.) The Thai surgeon obliged, carving away what blockers had withered, a grim workaround to British law’s irritating ethics. Green spun this mutilation as triumph, oblivious to the wreckage: a gay boy, chemically and surgically neutered, sold a fetishistic fantasy as his salvation.
Mermaids, birthed in 1995 as a humble parent support group, metastasized under Green’s reign from 2016 to 2022 into a lobbying behemoth, hellbent on mainstreaming this nightmare. By 2020, they’d funnelled over 1,800 kids to Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) for blockers and hormones, a conveyor belt of sterilization masquerading as care (Barnes, The Times, 2023).
Echoing Johns Hopkins’ Paul McHugh, we should simply call it child abuse, a grotesque crusade castrating gay and autistic youth under a trans flag (First Things, 2004). Green did not just cheerlead; she drove the bus, pressuring the NHS to fund clinics and schools to parrot "affirmation" over biology, turning institutions into accomplices in a fetish, fuelled delusion.
The rot runs deep. In 2022, the Charity Commission launched a probe into Mermaids, unearthing safeguarding failures that screamed reckless endangerment, pushing drugs on vulnerable kids with scant oversight (Charity Commission, 2022). Green’s son, now an adult, embodies the regret she will not face: a castrated gay boy, his body a testament to a mother’s fetishistic cure gone wrong. But Mermaids’ stench wafted further.
The court clash with LGB Alliance from 2021 to 2023, a group fighting to disentangle gay rights from trans dogma, laid bare the rift. Mermaids sued to strip LGB Alliance’s charitable status, a petty vendetta that backfired when the case exposed their own dirt (LGB Alliance v Mermaids, 2023) as well as revealing just how mad some of their employees were, support dog and mother anyone?
Mermaids’ board harboured figures like Dr. Jacob Breslow, who resigned in 2022 after his past research defending "minor, attracted persons" at LSE surfaced, a polite euphemism for paedophiles (The Telegraph, 2022). Another trustee, linked to a pro, paedophile conference in the 1980s, fuelled the fire (The Times, 2022). Which beggars the question was Mermaids a Trojan horse, shielding predators under a rainbow cloak?
Green’s legacy is not unique; it is the blueprint, for they railroaded thousands onto the "trans train", blockers at 10, hormones at 14, surgery by 18, leaving a trail of sterile, scarred bodies. The Cass Review (2022) damned Tavistock’s GIDS for rushing kids to drugs without evidence, a disaster Mermaids fuelled with every pamphlet and plea. It is a cult preying on the confused, autistic, and gay, peddling regret, mutilation, and drug addiction as liberation.
The Toxic Plague that is Stonewall
Stonewall, once a determined defender of gay rights, has morphed into a bloated peddler of gender ideology and queer theory, choking Britain with a fetishistic cult under the flimsy banner of “inclusion.” By the early 2000s, they did not just slap the “T” onto LGBT; they weaponized it, swelling the acronym into the sprawling, incoherent LGBTQ+ swamp that drowns discourse. Now a Trojan Horse, betraying the lesbians and gays who built it, yoking them to a delusion that prizes pronouns over biology and claims social justice in the name of the cult.
Their cult proliferated gender ideology, proclaiming “identity” trumps chromosomes, children are trans at 2 and it is literally a suicide driver to not “affirm a gender identity”. Stonewall’s great betrayal of gays and lesbians was propelled by queer theory’s academic slop from Judith Butler and Michel Foucault, claiming sex is a myth and feelings rule all.
Stonewall’s spewed dangerous propaganda to lock in this lie, five standouts in their “toolkit” section will give you an idea.
A Vision for Change (2017), a screed for self ID, letting any man claim womanhood unchecked giving predators a free pass.
Supporting Trans Women in Domestic and Sexual Violence Services (2018) by strong arming shelters into admitting males, gutting women’s safety
Creating a Trans Inclusive Workplace (2020), a corporate manual scrapping sex-based rights for “gender neutral” lunacy and misrepresenting and going beyond the law.
The Truth About Trans (2019), a slick pamphlet conning kids into thinking blockers are safe, despite sterility risks (Cass Review, 2022)
Best Practice Guide for Schools (2021), a standard pushing teachers to affirm confused pupils, funnelling them to Tavistock’s hormone grinder.
But of course, these are not tools, they are propaganda and lies, blasting reality apart for a fetish driven flesh cult. The birth of LGBT, then LGBTQ+, is Stonewall’s self-importance in full flow. A fight for gay, lesbian, and bisexual acceptance, literally acceptance, which we had won, got swallowed by trans dogma, becoming profoundly homophobic, and turning the whole organisation into a farce of fantasy and phalloplasty, vile vaginoplasty and the systematic championing of drugging children and advocating for the ripping off of young women’s breasts.
The Q+ - essentially Queer theory, provided them with a framework for academically legitimised hatred of “normativity” fashioning a perfect wedge for them to justify the fluidity fetish, spawning an acronym so stuffed with “+” it’s a free-for-all for every kink, from, BDSM, Pups, Furries to Asexual and “two spirit”, a cultural snatch even indigenous voices have called out and one likely invented in the film Little Big Man (Arthur Penn 1970).
Ruth Hunt, CEO from 2014 to 2019, pandered her trans obsession and dragging us all into the societal abyss, strengthening it with her 2015 trans inclusion into the acronym (Stonewall, 2015). She did not lead, she dictated, turning a gay charity into a trans amplifier and spreading untold harm, she and so many others must be held to account.
Nancy Kelley, as Stonewall’s CEO from 2020 to 2023, steered the charity deep into LGBT advocacy, prioritizing trans ideology over its lesbian, gay, and bisexual roots. She infamously likened lesbians rejecting trans women as partners to “sexual racists,” a claim sparking outrage for equating sexual orientation with prejudice (Daily Mail, 2021). Kelley also nodded to rhetoric branding same-sex attraction as “genital fetishism,” amplifying the “cotton ceiling” debate, where trans activists argue excluding trans people from dating pools is bigotry and fetishistic men are encouraged and taught how to seduce lesbians, a vile undertaking and indicative of the sexual obsessions of cults.
Her tenure saw Stonewall abandoning LGB rights, pushing a fetishistic cult that smeared dissenters as hateful, leaving a legacy of division and confusion across society as she, like Hunt before her, allowed no debate and exploited weak Equality Laws such as the one in 2010 to push “go beyond the law” and encourage hundreds of corporate and public sector bodies to do just that, all under the guise of best practice.
The Stonewall Top 100 Employers list is their largest bureaucratic scam, a paper, pushing racket fleecing corporates craving woke points. Launched in 2005 it expanded under Hunt’s reign, it’s a maze of forms and fees, £2,500 for starters, for firms like BP, Barclays, and MI5 to grovel (The Telegraph, 2021). Hunt’s Diversity Champions scheme fed this beast, a 900+ strong legion drowning in red tape, parroting self ID and trans “inclusion” or facing exile, a con dressed as virtue (Daily Mail, 2021). Hunt’s fingerprints are all over it, her bloated bureaucracy not equality, but blackmail, equity and in my humble opinion fraud.
Schools amplify the damage. Stonewall’s School Report (2017) pushed social transition, pronouns, and name change for kids as young as five, claiming it curbs bullying (Stonewall, 2017). Literally “transing the gay away” as gay teens, especially lesbians, recast as trans to dodge same sex stigma and through the bullying of their peers, trained online by the fetishistic men or encouraged offline by psychotic women and parents.
Stonewall’s not a hero, it is a despot, peddling queer theory’s madness to a nation too meek to push back. Hunts and Kelly’s reign left women’s spaces destroyed, kids sterilised, and gay rights gutted, a cult we are all forced to worship, lest we experience a social death, anonymous threats of death or opprobrium or even imprisonment for speaking up as the UK falls further into the equity hell hole.
So, What Does the LGBTQ+ Mean
Press for Change welded the "T" onto this coalition aided and abetted by Stonewall hungry to keep their jobs and the funding going instead of bowing out gracefully as they should of, it is a terrible thing greed.
This yoked gay rights to Stoller’s gender fiction and muddied waters with fetishistic baggage. By the early 2000s, "QIA+" Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and a sprawling "plus"—piled on, embraced by groups like the LGBT Foundation by 2010. "Queer" reframed a slur as fluid rebellion and opened up the field for income to anything as well as indicating one of queer theories central, breaking down barriers between adult and child as stated by Judith Butler in her YouTube interview with Owen Jones.
"Intersex" dragged in rare medical conditions, a made-up term to shore up the spectrum nonsense they love so much, and "Asexual" stretched it into absurdity as no one really cares who you are not fucking. The LGBT Foundation’s The LGBT Foundation’s Gender Service (2020) pipelines adults into affirmation, social transition to surgery, mirroring Mermaids’ youth track. medicalising healthy gays under "QIA+" guises, with no evidence "identity" is not a paraphilic ruse.
All this under gender ideology’s tent, a readymade package sold to the corporates and society alongside Critical Race Theory and other grievance nonsense as EDI/DEI and boy did we fall for it.
Society buckles. Male trans inmates assault women in prisons (Karen White, 2018), a Stonewall self ID win (BBC, 2018). Sports collapse as males dominate female fields (Lia Thomas, 2022), cheered by "LGBTQIA+" dogma. Reality rots under this fetish, driven tide and men parade their fetish in the workplace whilst we all sit around silently in the name of EDI/DEI.
Social media mock it as a "meaningless alphabet soup," accusing "QIA+" of swallowing gay and lesbian voices into an identity fight. I see it as a Trojan horse, paraphilias and fantasies masquerading as rights, diluting same-sex advocacy into a gender driven mess.
One thing is for certain, wherever you see it, ranging from LGBT to LGBTQIA+ it has absolutely nothing to do with gays and lesbians, it is a political Trojan horse for corporate greed, neo-liberal hedonism, and hard left collectivism. We must resist at all costs.
To reiterate, stop all interventions, blockers, hormones, surgeries for everyone. "Gender identity" is a paraphilic hoax: no science, just Stoller’s hunch. Kids cannot consent to ruin; adults cannot rewrite sex. It harms gay youth endangers women and we need to bury this "QIA+" farce quickly.
Dentons and Yogyakarta
We cannot end without mention of “The Dentons document” and “Yogyakarta Principles.” Dentons, formally titled Only Adults? Good Practices in Legal Gender Recognition for Youth, is a 2019 report commissioned by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA World) and trans lobby group Thomson Reuters Foundation, with input from IGLYO. Crafted by Dentons, a global law firm, it advises trans activists on stealth tactics to push gender self-ID laws worldwide, bypassing public scrutiny. It was co-authored by trans activist and larping man Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir and others, targeting youth transitions explicitly, it is foundational to our societal infection.
Its dangers are glaring. The document urges linking trans rights to popular causes like LGB rights, avoiding debate, and rushing legislation to dodge democratic oversight which is both anti-democratic and sinister in equal measures. It encourages targeting young, impressionable politicians and sidestepping evidence, banking on emotional blackmail over science.
This normalised untested medical interventions on children, ignoring Johns Hopkins’ 1979 rejection of such practices as fetish-driven, not therapeutic. It is a playbook for eroding women’s spaces, gay rights, and parental consent, all while shielding paraphilic agendas under a rainbow flag.
Likewise, The Yogyakarta Principles, was a 2006 manifesto hatched in Indonesia, cooked up by a clique of 29 self-styled “human rights experts” at Gadjah Mada University, spearheaded by the International Commission of Jurists and the International Service for Human Rights. Funded by trans activist cash and chaired by Michael O’Flaherty, with input from radical voices like Stephen Whittle, this non-binding Wishlist of 29 principles, expanded to “Plus 10” in 2017, pushed “gender identity” and international law’s spotlight, sidestepping democratic consent. It is a fetishist’s fever dream, dressed as justice, demanding self-ID and medical interventions without evidence, all while dodging scrutiny.
This coupled with Dentons is the strategy for the subsequent chaos we now face. It greenlights kids’ sterilisation via hormones, erases women’s sex-based rights (as co-signer Robert Wintemute later rued), and hands paraphiliacs legal cover to invade prisons and sports. Never ratified by the UN, it is a cult’s playbook, not a rights charter, risking a generation’s ruin under rainbow-washed lies.
They are both a trojan horse for trans and the merging with the other great scam of our time, the EDI/DEI farce, foisted on us by corporates, cultural neoliberals, and the hard left, threatening a generation with irreversible harm and the entire country with the prospect of the collectivist nightmares of the past, the loss of free speech and thought, a carceral state and the darkest of futures we have seen for a long time.
In Summary
The "gender identity" fraud, spawned by Stoller, Kinsey, and Money, turbocharged by Beaumont, Press for Change, Mermaids, and Stonewall, and codified in the Dentons and Yogyakarta playbooks, festers as a fetishistic cult destabilizing society via the EDI/DEI scam.
Corporates buy rainbow credibility and EDI/DEI psychosocial indoctrination for hapless and powerless employees, the hard left craves collectivist chains, hedonistic neoliberals peddle debauched rot, universities indoctrinate with mass psychosis, schools sell sterilising kids and anti-science rubbish whilst mainstream media parrot lies, and the public sector bankrolls this multi million pound long con.
Free speech withers as dissenters face ostracism or prison, women’s rights vanish, and gay youth are mutilated, all to appease a paraphilic delusion.
This cult threatens a carceral dystopia, shredding science, and sanity. We must fight back at all costs, halt interventions for all in the name of the Church of Gender Identity, dismantle EDI/DEI, reclaim education, and resurrect truth—lest this madness plunges us into a dark age of broken bodies and silenced minds. Education is the key to ending it, and the education system is wholly captured in the UK, so what, may I ask do we do?
You are not powerless. Speak up, perhaps on X, at work, in your children’s school. Demand an end to blockers and surgeries; they are mutilation, not medicine. Reject EDI/DEI’s blackmail, call out your boss’s rainbow badge. Teach your children biology, not pronouns. Join the sceptics amplifying truth.
Risk the mob’s wrath; free speech is worth it. This cult threatens our future, one result of which is criminalising words, so fight back now, or watch children pay the price. You are the last line; act, or it is over.
Superb Barry, you are absolutely brilliantly on fire. I wish people would bloody well listen.
Yes. This brings together all the threads. I pray we are in the end game of this horror. Protect gay kids. Protect autistic youth.