Robby Starbuck: transition and children

I went on Robby Starbuck's show to talk about trans healthcare for young people. I knew it would be a hard conversation, and it was. Robby came with a long list of claims, some of them simply false, some misleading, some built on real things that had been stripped of their context. He was not interested in a quiet exchange of views. That is fine. I was there to say what is true.

What was really underneath all of it was one argument: that trans young people should not be able to access medical care, that the clinicians who provide it are reckless or worse, and that the whole enterprise is a kind of harm being done to children. I disagree with every part of that, and I said so. The claims Robby made range from the factually wrong to the genuinely complicated, and they deserve a straight answer rather than a debating point. That is what the sections below are.

GenderGP came up repeatedly, including claims about my husband and about what the service does and how. I will address all of that directly. I will also address the Cass Review, the countries said to have "banned" this care, the social contagion argument, the comparisons to child sacrifice, and the rest. None of it should be left hanging.