UK: Minister Warns of 'Epidemic' of Children Being Told They're Trans

Facts

• Kemi Badenoch, the UK's Women and Equalities Minister, told the House of Commons on Wednesday that Britain is facing an 'epidemic' of gay children being told that they are transgender, and warned of a 'new form of conversion therapy' that she claimed sterilizes young children.¹
• Building on a promise initially made under Theresa May, Badenoch has pledged to publish draft legislation banning so-called conversion therapy, alleging that gay children face a new threat of conversion, not related to their sexuality, but to their gender identity.²
• Furthermore, Badenoch said she intends to reframe the debate around 'gender-affirming care' for children and to ban schools from socially transitioning young children unless clinical advice dictates otherwise.³
• Arguing that many gay children were being exploited by those who didn't properly understand their situations, Badenoch said: 'No child is born in the wrong body,' yet they are 'being put on a medical pathway for irreversible decisions and they are regretting it.'⁴
• Badenoch specifically cited Keira Bell, a woman who started taking puberty blockers at 16 before medically transitioning and removing her breasts. Bell later argued she had been too young to consent to her procedures and brought a judicial review against the NHS gender identity clinic that treated her.⁵
• Amid the controversial comments, Sir Chris Bryant, a Labour MP and former minister, said that he feels less safe as a gay man than he did five years ago due to 'rhetoric' being used 'in the public debate' by Badenoch, among others.⁶

Sources: ¹The telegraph, ²Daily Mail, ³Yahoo finance, ⁴The sun, ⁵Guardian and ⁶Oxford mail.

Narratives

• Conservative narrative, as provided by Sex matters. Across the West, young children are having their innocence and identities stripped by radical ideologues championing a warped view of gender and sexuality. Sexual orientation and physical sex are two distinct things, and it is medically and morally wrong to push gay children towards questioning their gender identity. Badenoch is a hero in the battle against radical gender ideology and is right in calling out the scourge of transgenderism on impressionable gay children.
• Progressive narrative, as provided by The pinknews. Kemi Badenoch has showed her true colors by spreading vile anti-LGBTQ rhetoric before the House of Commons. She has explicitly claimed that transgender youth don't have a valid identity and shouldn't receive the affirming medical care that they need to transition. Trans rights are under attack in the UK, and Badenoch's rhetoric shows that there's a long way to go to achieve equal rights for LGBTQ minorities.

Predictions