Fox-clubbing barrister who is leading legal challenge against Labour Government ban on puberty blockers claims parents will 'tip the ashes of their dead transgender children outside Downing Street'
Bereaved parents will tip the ashes of their dead transgender children outside Downing Street as a result of the continuing ban on puberty blockers, a controversial barrister has claimed.
Jolyon Maugham dramatically stepped up his attack on new Health Secretary Wes Streeting for making permanent the Conservatives' emergency restrictions on gender medicine for young people.
The Good Law Project director, notorious for clubbing a fox to death with a baseball bat while wearing a kimono, is leading a High Court challenge against the ban and claimed on Friday it will 'kill trans children'.
Since then he has posted 25 questions for Mr Streeting on Twitter/X and claimed that the UK is 'no longer safe for trans families' because of 'transphobic health policy'.
Jolyon Maugham is leading a High Court challenge against the ban and claimed on Friday it will 'kill trans children'
Trans rights activists take part in a protest against the ban on hormone blockers on April 20, 2024 in London
Maugham dramatically stepped up his attack on new Health Secretary Wes Streeting (pictured) for making permanent the Conservatives ' emergency restrictions on gender medicine for young people
And yesterday morning he went further still, writing: 'Spare a thought today for Wes Streeting, unlikely to be loved by Cabinet colleagues for his decision, only a week into the new Government, to front run the King's Speech, torpedo relations with the LGBT+ community, and perpetuate the Tories' wicked culture war.
'And don't underestimate the political tail of Wes Streeting's decision. His colleagues will slowly be coming to terms with him locking them into a future of bereaved parents tipping ashes outside No 10 and a revival of mass die-ins wherever they go.'
Mr Maugham also claimed the ban on puberty blocker prescriptions in private clinics – after the NHS ended it as a routine treatment for gender dysphoria earlier this year – amounted to a plan to 'forcibly detransition young trans people'.
He wrote: 'The King will today announce Labour's hugely important, and welcome, legislation to ban conversion therapy. But last week Wes Streeting announced his personal plan to forcibly detransition young trans people. How does that work?'
Mr Streeting has not responded to the latest accusations.
Puberty blocker Gonapeptyl depot injection contains the active ingredient triptorelin acetate, which is a type of medicine known as a gonadorelin (LHRH) analogue. It acts on the pituitary gland in the brain
A MailOnline graphic illustrating the number of gender 'transformations' carried out in the NHS each year
A trans rights activist takes part in a protest against the ban on hormone blockers on April 20, 2024
On Sunday, after the initial criticism from Mr Maugham and a backlash from backbench Labour MPs, he defended the puberty blocker ban and condemned the language being used in the debate.
'Some of the public statements being made are highly irresponsible and could put vulnerable young people at risk,' he wrote on social media.
'I know there's lots of fear and anxiety. I am determined to improve the quality of, and access to, care for trans people.
'I hope this thread provides some context for the caution and care I am taking when it comes to this vulnerable group of young people.
'The decisions I am taking will always be based on evidence, rather than politics or political pressure.'
