It's about time the trans madness ended and sanity returned

It feels like the world has shifted. That there’s been an awakening, a road to Damascus moment where sanity has crept back into a society that has been bullied and threatened into believing biological sex can – and should – be changed on a whim just because kids, trans activists and some clinicians demand it.

And those of us who dared to suggest that most 14-year-olds might not be mature enough to understand the implications of changing their biological sex were pilloried, abused and branded bigots and transphobes. How dare we deny teenagers their “rights”, screamed the trans activists. How dare we say kids shouldn’t chop off their breasts. How dare we question them taking life-changing hormones without proper assessment and counselling?

But Dr Hilary Cass’s sane, measured, comprehensive report this week has changed everything at a stroke because she has smashed to smithereens the current model of treating gender-distressed children. She has forced a pause in the madness and allowed people to ask: how did it ever happen that qualified doctors and clinicians were brainwashed by an ideological cult: a cult which pushed young people into being used as lab rats to be experimented on, with drugs that wrecked their bodies, their bones and their minds, a cult that encouraged young girls to mutilate themselves and take hormones that would render them infertile.

Dr Cass’s four-year review has given us all permission to rage at supposedly respectable organisations like Stonewall and Mermaids that pushed for the prescription of puberty-blocking drugs to vulnerable, gender-distressed young people. And anyone who dared to question a confused teenager’s choice was a monster trampling on their confusion.

These organisations knew nothing of the long-term effects of the puberty blockers they were advocating for kids as young as 14. Didn’t they know of evidence they may increase the risk of cancer, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis and brittle bones in young people?

And for those of us who for years have been shouting: “What the hell are we doing to our children?” and getting death threats for our trouble, well finally, thanks to Dr Cass, there WILL be a reckoning, people WILL be held accountable, the madness WILL stop and terrified parents up and down the land can finally breathe easier knowing there’s now time, and the will, to save their brainwashed kids.

Thanks to Dr Cass, doctors and other healthcare professionals who have been bullied and threatened for daring to raise legitimate concerns can now do the job they’ve always wanted to do – they can slow the process down and assess it properly without pressure to dole out drugs that will wreck young lives forever.

They will have time to see if these youngsters actually ARE in the wrong body or, as many studies have proved, simply gay, autistic or suffering mental health problems. But just how did it happen that this insidious trans cult and its loony ideology, which has never made sense to the majority, was allowed to flourish in the first place?

How was an entire nation bullied into unwilling submission by it?

Well, much of it is down to the Left, particularly those chancer Labour MPs, many of whom are now backpedalling like crazy having been exposed as virtue-signalling idiots who jumped on a bandwagon they thought might make them more electable. Which shows how little Labour knows about the British people, the majority of whom believed the trans cult to be bonkers, dangerous and divisive, as it has proved to be.

Dr Hilary Cass deserves a damehood for this revolutionary review that has halted the madness and brought sanity back into the trans debate.

Ditto JK Rowling, who could have just sat on her millions living a glorious cocooned life. Instead, she put her head into the trans monster’s mouth and fought tooth and nail against those pushing confused teenagers into transitioning. Make no mistake, Harry Potter won’t be her legacy. She will be remembered as the woman who took on the trans tyrants, fought tirelessly for women’s rights and saved God knows how many teenage lives.

Harold Wilson's other other woman

It's been revealed that Harold Wilson didn’t just have an affair with his political secretary Marcia Williams while married to wife Mary, he also had one with a woman called Janet Hewlett-Davies, who was his assistant press secretary, 22 years younger than him and also married.

“She gave him a new lease of life,” said famous ex-No 10 press secretary, Joe Haines. “She was of significance to the last Wilson administration.”

Sorry, but let’s not make this sound like Ms Hewlett-Davies was some kind of political muse who inspired Wilson.

The two of them were grubby adulterers creeping around cheating on their spouses.

How a four-day working week is racist

The new Welsh Labour Government has decreed that the idea of a four-day working week is – brace yourself – racist!

Apparently, it discriminates against ethnic minorities who, according to a new report, “disproportionately work in frontline public sector roles” so, the report continues, losing a day “exacerbates existing inequalities” between them and office staffers. Nope, I’m still not understanding why that’s racist.

As the Welsh population is 97 per cent white and there are just over three million people in the entire country, that means we’re talking about a black and Asian population of just 90,000, only a fraction of whom will work in frontline public sector roles.Is this sounding like a made-up problem to you, from a government that has a new black First Minister, Vaughan Gething, and is desperate to be seen doing its bit for diversity and inclusion? Maybe Wales needs to concentrate on its very REAL problems – the fact that both its education system and the NHS are in the toilet, it’s skint and it has nowhere near enough police officers.

All of the above are why this is not a country that should be skiving off on a four-day week.

The cult of Paddy McGuinness

I’ve never understood the cult of Paddy McGuinness. He was only ever tolerable when Peter Kay was writing his lines. And other viewers clearly feel the same, because all of his big TV shows post-Kay have now been dumped.

So why the hell has Radio 2 boss Helen Thomas made this semi-illiterate no-mark part of the new Sunday morning line-up, after Steve Wright’s tragic death?

Thomas – who ludicrously replaced the fabulous Ken Bruce with talent-lite Vernon Kay – has an uncanny knack for making the wrong decisions. Well, here’s hoping that when even more Radio 2 listeners switch off, the BBC makes the right one and sacks both her and McGuinness.

Brooklyn Beckham's love letter

Brooklyn Beckham has written a love letter to his wife of two years, Nicola Peltz, in which he says: “I couldn’t of wished for a better person to spend my life with. I can’t wait to have babys with you. I love you like you have no idea.”

I wish I could say “Aaaah, how cute”, but all I’m thinking is how could someone get to the age of 25 still sounding like a five-year-old who’s just learned to read and write?

Actually, no I take that back – there are zillions of five-years-olds who are already streets ahead of Brooklyn in terms of grammar and vocabulary.

Did he actually go to school? If he did it’s clearly the same one as his dad.

Starmer vows

Keir Starmer has vowed his “unshakeable commitment” to Trident this week and said the UK’s nuclear deterrent is safe in his hands. Does Mr Flip Flop really have an unshakeable commitment to anything?

Ricky Tomlinson's new writing stint

How annoying is it when celebrities who run short of work and need to make a few bob suddenly think: “I know, I’ll write a children’s book”? Ricky Tomlinson has decided to do just that, which must terrify parents everywhere, bearing in mind we barely ever hear him uttering a sentence that isn’t peppered with swear words.