On November 18, MP Di Farmer proudly posted on Facebook that she had been part of a protest outside Parliament House in Queensland and was a signatory to a petition against the banning of puberty blockers for gender non-conforming children in Queensland.

Farmer was joined by MPs Grace Grace, Mark Bailey, and my own local member Joe Kelly, to vehemently insist that we should trust psychiatrists to desex children.

The lobby groups involved in the Queensland protest to demand the government reinstate puberty blockers for gender medicine, including Equality Australia, Transcend, Trans Justice Project, and LGBTI legal services. All these lobby groups are government-funded.

In the UK, comprehensive studies have demonstrated that puberty blockers are not only ineffective and dangerous – they target the most vulnerable of children, the majority of whom will later identify as same sex attracted. The Cass Review showed that almost all children who are placed on puberty blockers for gender incongruence go on to a lifetime of cross sex hormones. This creates a group of people who have had no puberty at all.

Leaked messages with a WPATH representative say, ‘To date, I’m unaware of an individual claiming ability to orgasm when they were blocked at Tanner 2.’ This is not just about an orgasm, but denying a person the experience of a long-term, mutually enjoyable, intimate sexual relationship. This is an integral part of the human experience. No child can consent to the removal of something they have no way to imagine the value of.

A top gender psychiatrist with Queensland Health has admitted to a room of his peers that the evidence of the benefits of puberty blockers to young people in gender medicine is ‘weak’, while the evidence of long-term harms – including bone density issues, permanent infertility, and sexual dysfunction – are increasingly evident. Apparently, these are not reasons ‘not to do it’.

Despite all this evidence, the NHS are about to embark on human trials of puberty blockers for what are called ‘trans’ children.

Why are the parliamentary left and professional activists reluctant to give up the desexing of children when it is so obviously wrong?

I’d love to spin a BuzzFeed vibe and give you five reasons why, but I only have one reason. It is my view that the only reason our government and paid progressives want to block the puberty of gender non-conforming children is to maintain the lucrative ‘tans myth’.

The trans myth is the idea that everyone has a body sex and a soul sex. Of these two sexes, the soul sex is the true sex and the true self. According to the myth, a very small percentage of special people have an incongruence between the body sex and the soul sex. We call these people ‘trans’.

According to the myth, if the sex of the soul or the ‘self’ is denied its expression and its affirmation, the host body of the soul’s sex can literally die.

If there is an innate condition called trans, then it stands to reason some of the trans people are children. The paediatric science of trans posits that special doctors can test to find the child with the trans soul, partly by finding out what stereotypes the child is attracted to.

Once the diagnosis of the trans child is conducted, so the science goes, a child will have the best chance of being their true sex soul self if we can stop the toxic and deadly body sex development.

The trans myth then goes on to insist that brutal ineffective surgeries with very poor results, like phalloplasty, should not only be available, but paid for by the taxpayer. In addition, all of society must be compelled to pretend they don’t see body sex with their own eyes, and we must forget the dangers of sex completely, including male pattern criminal and sexual behaviour towards women and children.

The obvious problem is that this is all complete nonsense. It is useful nonsense to government because it has grown an industry of consultants that provide government with cultural and political control mechanism. The reality for the regular person is that harm has been caused by the trans myth, not just to medical science, but to society, to women’s rights, to gay rights, to parents’ rights, and to the right of children to reach adulthood intact.

Without the trans myth, the entire medical and political industry of trans falls into the sea and the draconian legislation that is tied to the trans myth will just be a sticky dream between a politician’s sheets.

The trans myth became institutionalised properly in 2013 with the invention of gender dysphoria. The diagnosis of gender dysphoria in the DSM5 invented the dual sexed person, with the decree that the distress people feel about gender stereotypes is a type of innate sexual self and the source of distress in the trans person is from discrimination.

The big problem in selling the trans myth is that almost no trans identifying men ‘pass’ – they almost all look like men in dresses, and people have eyes.

Puberty blockers provide the trans medical and political industry with the closest simulation of a female person that a male can achieve, especially when puberty is blocked before Tanner stage 2. This creates a physical illusion that sex is not as real as we think.

There are several individuals who act as the patron saints of the trans myth. We saw them as boy children, and because they have had no male puberty, they are destined to grow up to look and act exactly like women, but in a long experiment, that is not really what has happened.

The smoke and mirrors of the trans myth will show us the castrated straight-hipped ‘trans girl’ on the catwalk, but we mustn’t look too closely at their lives.

In one example, the star of reality TV show, I Am Jazz was identified as trans by his mother. Jazz apparently struggles to access the milestones regular adults would achieve, like financial independence, emotional stability, and natural romantic engagements. In one episode, Jazz’s mother was seen suggesting that Jazz is ‘asexual’. Asexuality has become a cover identity for the desexed person.

Others may remember the young boy with pink hair who graced the cover of National Geographic as a nine-year-old in January 2017. With the dramatic headline ‘Gender Revolution’, this child was placed at the forefront of the invention of the transgender child.

Their mother posted in 2020 that, ‘God knows us before we are in the womb. He knows our spirit. That is not the same as our physical, temporary body.’ That young boy began a social transition at four years old.

In response to JK Rowling, their mother posted on X in 2020 that her ‘daughter … IS female. And she absolutely would feel like you hated her if you denied that reality’. But by 2022, their child was ‘course correcting’ and identifying as nonbinary. The mother now refers to her son by plural pronouns, declaring him to be ‘valid’ and ‘happy’.

If the trans myth is not true, which it is not, because it is ridiculous, what we have done to children in its service is a scandal. Those who have been complicit, those who have profited, can never look and see what they have done. There is only one way to break the trans myth on which the house of cards of gender identity rests. Truth.

We must tell the truth about sex always and everywhere. Those of us who have committed to never use wrong sex pronouns, to see a man and say a man, to not accept in our life any lies about human sex categories, suffer all kinds of abuse and vilification, but the more of us who commit to this path, the sooner this will end, and we can start to heal our society from one of the most dangerous lies ever told by government.

Edie Wyatt has a BA Hons from the Institute of Cultural Policy Studies and writes on culture, politics and feminism. She tweets at @msediewyatt and blogs on substack