Martin Daubney ‘moved to tears’ by detransitioner’s emotional plea at gender hearing

Former Brexit Party MEP Daubney says the issue is not limited to the US, and is rife across the UK as well.

“When I saw this speech, I was moved to tears. It really made me weep”, he told Michelle Dewberry.

“It’s because this isn’t just a rare event, this is happening across schools in our nation. It’s happened in my son’s school.

“There’s this pattern of people with autism who are going through a phase, latching onto this thing and they decide ‘that’s it, I’m trans’.

“I’ve seen it in my boy’s peer group where they’ve decide they’re not trans after changing their mind.

“During that time they were nurtured and treated as heroes by their teachers. There’s a word for this, it’s grooming.”

Daubney went on to argue that teachers who partake in “grooming” young minds should not be allowed to carry on in the profession.

“They should be struck off the register”, he said.

“They should be kicked out of the profession and schools who allow it should be defunded. It’s damaging a generation, damaging communities and destroying peer groups.

“Children are being forced down the route of surgeries by teachers who think they’re evangelical angels.”

Cole spoke to Congress about her double mastectomy at the age of 15 and how societal pressures resulted in her coming out as transgender at 12.

Her parents sought advice from medical professionals, which Cole said was a “mistake”.

“It immediately sent our entire family down a path of ideologically motivated and coercion," Cole said.

"The gender specialist I was taken to, taken to see told my parents that I needed to be put on puberty blocking drugs right away. They asked my parents a simple question ‘Would you rather have a dead daughter or a living transgender son?’ The choice was enough for my parents to let their guard down.

“And in retrospect, I can't blame them. This is the moment that we all became victims of so-called gender-affirming care."