I’d already scheduled my December 16 interview with Bev Jackson when Malcolm Richard Clark published a brilliant history of the LGB Alliance and its critical role in bringing about the puberty-blocker ban that was announced in the UK on December 11. That article, published on the 15th, confirmed my opinion that Bev Jackson and Kate Harris should be better known in America. It also supplied me with better questions for Bev!
Here’s some background from Malcolm’s piece:
“Whenever the whistleblowers spoke up they found themselves frozen out. Once upon a time Stonewall could have put a stop to a scandal like this simply by issuing a press release. Tragically, as Jackson and Harris knew all too well, Stonewall was actively enabling it.
“For a growing group of non-gay parents, therapists and academics who had been sounding the alarm about puberty blockers for some time LGB Alliance was now to prove a game-changer.
“On December 24th 2019 LGB Alliance entered the fray publicly with its first ad against blockers. [What had been] this tiny GIF on Twitter would soon be turned into full page ads in the Scottish press:
“Some people believe girls who like football need puberty blockers and a double mastectomy. We believe they need football boots"
