When children are the targets of such propaganda by adults, we all have an obligation to retrieve our moral compass. We must face up to the tragedy of this current moment, and think the unthinkable - that many adults, some knowingly, but the majority unknowingly, are harming children who have even less capacity to resist the power of the GII narrative than they do.

The concept of the 'trans' child is discussed in relation to safeguarding. We believe there is significant urgency in the task of creating circumstances in which education, health, and social work professionals can receive the support necessary to return them to their ethical and fiduciary role of safeguarding. It is time to address the disastrous professional neglect that has operated when nonsensical theories have been favoured over reality, and to create new support networ

What is interesting in the 'gender dysphoria' situation is that the dynamics of urgency (or more accurately anxiety), and the fixation on the sexed body are recognisable at all levels. They appear in the urgency of parents presenting their justified concerns to the medical profession, and at schools where the pressure to act, and to get others to affirm naive and troubling fantasies, is met with compliance and further preoccupation with questions of changing the sexed body.