![]() Referrals across a 10-year period did increase from 77 in 2009 to 2,590 in 2019, with assigned female at birth referrals increasing from 32 to 1,740, and several “gender-critical” activists use these figures to imply there is some sort of social contagion around being trans. She also claims GIDS had seen a 4,000 per cent rise in referrals of people assigned female at birth. It isn’t the only claim by Rowling that goes unchallenged. None of this is raised in Phelps-Roper’s podcast, and Rowling isn’t challenged on the example she uses to suggest the presence of what she describes as “threatening” trans rights activism. Megan Phelps-Roper leaves claims unchallenged In response, the executive editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Kamran Abbasi, said that Heneghan had misinterpreted the study he used to justify his claim, adding that it was possible to disagree with Heneghan about the “robustness” of the research. In an article for The Spectator, he claimed that “wearing masks in the community does not significantly reduce the rate of infection”. He also questioned whether the virus could be transmitted in the air. Heneghan also made headlines after making claims about the COVID-19 lockdown, as well as about the efficacy of masks during the pandemic. Ignoring the perspective of the people who matter most in this issue, transgender children, is entirely unbalanced reporting.” The group added: “Conspicuously absent from both pieces are the voices of transgender people who have used the services provided by GIDS. In response, the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), a nationally operated health clinic commissioned by NHS England, said there was no evidence of “immediate issues in relation to patient safety or failing in the over-all approach taken by the service”.Īdditionally, the Oxford Student Union LGBTQ+ Campaign said Heneghan’s comments were “fear-mongering” and that the related article “ to give credibility to a transphobic rhetoric which is harmful”. In the article, Heneghan said that he had been told by former clinicians that children were being wrongly diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Rowling says: “He was instantly condemned as a transphobe by, I think, the Oxford University’s LGBT society.” Speaking to The Times in 2019, he likened trans youth using physically reversible hormone blockers to an “unregulated live experiment”. ![]() Rowling references a 2019 interview with physician and the director of the Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University, Carl Heneghan. ![]() JK Rowling has been routinely criticised for her views on trans rights.
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