78 children, some as young as 12, were put on puberty blockers and hormone treatments by clinicians who "were not professionally competent to initiate or assume responsibility" at the WellBN GP practice in Brighton. But that is fine by the Green Party. Like the wholesale removal of, among other things, male children's genitalia.
Not so the medically unnecessary circumcision of children. While I am no defender of that, how can there be no problem with cutting off the lot, yet an absolute objection to cutting off a little bit? The Greens used to want to ban halal slaughter, until it was pointed out that that would have necessitated a ban on kosher as well. Perhaps the reverse will apply in this case? Still, at least the Greens are obviously not Islamists.
Rupert Lowe still does want to ban kosher and halal slaughter, so does he also want to ban this? If not, why not? Does his admirer, Kemi Badenoch? If not, why not? And does the Christopher Hitchens Fan Club, whose idol had very strong views indeed on this subject? Yesterday saw the publication of a report into the negative effects of smacking, a practice that in any case seems to be much less prevalent than it used to be. Are England and Northern Ireland going to follow Scotland and Wales in criminalising that while continuing to allow this, never mind chemical and surgical castration?
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