Most children grow out of gender dysphoria given time and it is often symptomatic of something else; not least that standard condition of adolescence: feeling really rubbish about yourself. There are forces at work, however, which very much don't want children to grow out of being "trans", or to come to the realisation that they were gay after all.

This weekend the nave of Manchester hosted three metal bands, again with the setup emulating a rock concert venue as closely as possible. One of the bands had a blasphemous name, and the lyrics went beyond the cheeky glorification of fornication on the playlist at the silent discos. I'll let you do your own research, but the first set of lyrics I came across described someone being dismembered.

It is insane to suggest that anyone is ever "born in the wrong body." It is insane to argue -- with a straight face -- that a man can become a woman, or vice versa.

And it is insane to spit in the face of the Creator God who, in the beginning, made us male and female -- forever.

A team of Finnish researchers followed the 16,643 people under the age of 23 who entered Finland's gender clinics from 1996 to 2019. Initially, they noted that the suicide rate for trans-identifying people ranged from 350% to 1,900% higher than the average citizen -- but that statistic alone created an incomplete, and misleading, picture.