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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