Trans doctrine left children confused and families in fear

THROUGHOUT medical history, the treatment of mental distress has been prey to crackpot theories and T outlandish practices. At various times in the past, experts have bloodletting prescribed by leeches or purging by poison to draw out depression.

- Leo McKinstry

In the ancient world, patients sometimes had a hole drilled in their skulls, known as trepanation, to let out evil spirits. It was a dangerous method revived in a new form during the mid-20th century by the full-frontal lobotomy which often succeeded in calming disturbed individuals but only at the cost of reducing them to pitiful shadows.

In the 21st century, we like to think that we are too intellectually and technically sophisticated to fall for such primitive follies. Yet, in its hysterical embrace of the extreme transgender ideology, our own society has surrendered to an even greater mass delusion.

A kind of madness has gripped our civic culture, where even the basics of biological sciences are denied.

As the concept of womanhood is airbrushed from the public realm, those who dare to challenge this collective insanity are treated as heretics.

IN THIS bizarre, morally inverted world, the Costa Coffee chain feels. compelled in its marketing to use the cartoon image of a barechested transgender person showing the scars of their double-mastectomy.

Only in the madhouse created by trans dogma would a complex, life-changing surgical operation be used "to celebrate inclusivity", to use Costa's own defiant words.