Years from now, when historians are attempting to explain how the abusive gender experiments of the early 21st century happened, they will doubtless focus on the role of media. They may conclude that — as far as print media are concerned — it was the best of Times, it was the worst of Times. The best being the Times of London. And the worst being the New York Times.
In the past four years, the Times of London has doggedly reported the goings-on at Britain’s main transgender youth clinic. Janice Turner, a Times of London columnist, wrote that, for her, “it began with a graph.” In 2017, after realizing that female referrals to the transgender youth clinic had increased by 4,000 percent in a decade, her “journalistic curiosity was sparked.” And even “more so” when she could “find no mention of this in the mainstream press.” She began asking the obvious questions. Why the surge? What treatment does the clinic offer? What evidence is there in support of body-altering drugs and surgeries? What are the risks? What follow-ups have been done? Turner and her colleagues uncovered an ants’ nest. More questions followed: Why the censorship? Why the secrecy?
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