‘So-called niceness to do a wicked thing’: Douglas Murray on puberty blockers

Author Douglas Murray says there was “almost no knowledge about the consequences” of puberty blockers but “so-called niceness” was used to do a very wicked thing.

The NHS has confirmed children will not be routinely prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics.

A recently published NHS England policy document noted: “We have concluded that there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of (puberty blockers) to make the treatment routinely available at this time.”

“Whatever the causes are, we just have to look at the facts,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

“One of the things I was startled by always was some of these procedures, some of these drugs were being administered when there was almost no knowledge about the consequences.

“There was so few studies, there was so little literature, so little information … yet our societies have fallen into this place where we sort of just done something I think will be looked at as very, very wrong.

“We did it out of kindness … but sometimes it requires a so-called niceness to do a very wicked thing, and I think that is likely to be the case in this whole area.”