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A cautionary timeline of transgender ideology

Tane Harre
Tane Harre Politics

Much of this is a complete tragedy for the people involved and it is very hard for me to explain to people why and for them to understand when I do. That is my failing. Hopefully, a variety of other peoples words can explain better than mine.

Table of Contents

AU

2025

May 24th: As Mel’s gender ‘ricocheted’, she went under a surgeon’s knife

June 15th: Open letter to Australian health bodies regarding gender-affirming interventions

Jun 20th: Retired judge Steven Strickland says key puberty blocker case ‘may have been different’ in light of new evidence

NZ

2024

Sept 26th: Puberty blocker use much higher in NZ than other countries

Sep 27th: Puberty blocker prescriptions fall, after decade of rise

2025

Nov 28th: NZ has halted access to puberty blockers. What does the rest of the world do?

Dec 17th: Puberty blockers ban delayed by judicial review

UK

2018

Jul 5th: 'Trans women are still males with male genitalia' - university lecturer airs controversial views

Nov 3rd: Gender identity clinic accused of fast-tracking young adults

2019

Feb 23rd: Governor of Tavistock Foundation quits over damning report into gender identity clinic

Jul 19th: An open letter to Dr Polly Carmichael from a former GIDS clinician

Jul 29th: The Tavistock’s Experiment with Puberty Blockers

Nov: Only Adults? Good practices in legal gender recognition for youth

Dec 2nd: The document that reveals the remarkable tactics of trans lobbyists

Dec 19th: Researcher who lost job for tweeting ‘men cannot change into women’ loses employment tribunal

2020

Jan 6th: Psychiatric nurse launches legal action against NHS Tavistock clinic that offers 'experimental' puberty-blocking drugs to children 'as young as nine' who want to change gender

Jun 10th: J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues

2021

Mar 30th: The crisis at the Tavistock's child gender clinic

Apr 07th: Keira Bell: My Story

May 02: Tavistock trust whistleblower David Bell: ‘I believed I was doing the right thing’

Jun 10th: Maya Forstater: Woman wins tribunal appeal over transgender tweets

Jun 10th: Woman who lost her job — but gained J.K. Rowling's support — over trans tweets wins appeal

Jul 20th: What is a woman?

Jul 20th: J.K. Rowling says she's been targeted by 'trans activists' after blasting a pipe bomb death threat from a Twitter user

Sep 5th: NHS child gender identity clinic whistleblower wins tribunal

Oct 20th: Kathleen Stock and Sussex University: the war over academic freedom

2022

Jun 17th: What Went Wrong at the Tavistock Clinic for Trans Teenagers?

Jul 29th: How did the Tavistock carry on for so long?

Oct 4th: Mermaids trustee quits over paedophile-group links

Oct 11th: Mermaids worker 'posed naked in explicit images and posted ...

2023

Feb 12th: More than 1,000 children were given puberty blockers at controversial Tavistock gender clinic 'in scandal compared to doping of East German athletes', new book claims

2024

Mar 20th: Inside the collapse of the Tavistock Centre

Apr 9th: Gender medicine for children and young people is built on shaky foundations. Here is how we strengthen services

Apr 10th: Cass Review (pdf)

Apr 10th: Cass Review summary

Apr 10th: NHS bosses ordered to reveal fate of 9,000 young transgender Tavistock patients

Jun 4th: JK Rowling feared for safety after 'chilling' hammer death threat, court hears

Nov 7th: The Cass Review and the British Medical Association: the story of a u-turn

2025

Mar 31st: 4-Year Old Toddler Suspended from Nursery in the UK for “Transphobia”

Mar 26th: University of Sussex fined £585k in transgender free speech row

Apr 16th: UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex

Apr 30th: Transgender Poll

May 15th: ‘Trans toddlers’ allowed gender treatment on NHS

Dec 17th: Children cannot consent to puberty blocker trial, Streeting admits


If you have made it this far and are looking for more information I would suggest the website Peak Trans which has been recording events for many years.

US

2022

Nov 14th: They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?

2023

Jan 26: Whistle-blower Letter- Jamie Reed

Feb 7th: Affidavit of Jamie Reed

Feb 9th: Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey Confirms Launch of Multi-Agency Investigation into St. Louis Transgender Center for Harming Hundreds of Children

Feb 9th: I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.

May 16th: Sex-Change Procedures at Texas Children’s Hospital

April 21st: Wash U internal inquiry finds allegations against Trans Center to be ‘unsubstantiated’

April 21st: Washington University Transgender Center Internal Review Summary of Conclusions

2024

Feb 2nd: As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.

Apr 2nd: New study finds 12-fold higher risk of suicide attempt for adult transgender patients

Apr 9th: Youth Gender Medications Limited in England, Part of Big Shift in Europe

Jun 25th: Biden Officials Pushed to Remove Age Limits for Trans Surgery, Documents Show

Jul 20th: Research into trans medicine has been manipulated

2025

Jun 22nd SCOTUS - United States v. Skrmetti 

2026

Feb 1st First detransition trial victory is only the beginning

Feb 3rd Position Statement on Gender Surgery for Children and Adolescents

Feb 4th Doctors’ Group Endorses Restrictions on Gender-Related Surgery for Minors