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U.K. government covered up dramatic spike in trans youth suicides, new report says

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/u-k-government-covered-up-dramatic-spike-in-trans-youth-suicides-new-report-says/

John Russell (12 Feb 2026)

The U.K. government appears to have covered up a dramatic rise in transgender youth suicides, according to data obtained by U.K.-based government accountability non-profit the Good Law Project.

The U.K. government commissioned its 2024 Appleby Report after the Good Law Project reported that two whistleblowers with the Tavistock gender clinic alerted the organization to a significant rise in suicides among young people on the NHS's waitlist for appointments to begin gender-affirming care in the wake of the Tavistock case.

... the Appleby Report identified only 12 suicide deaths among current or former Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) patients at the Tavistock clinic between 2018 and 2024. However... the report disregarded young people who were unable to access GIDS care due to long wait times, which, post-Tavistock, now last an average 25 years.

"Good Law Project can confirm that in 2021–2022 suicides of trans children in England surged to 22, a marked increase from 5 and 4 the previous two years," the organization wrote in a February 7 release. "This spike follows the decision by NHS England to pull down the shutters on gender-affirming healthcare for young trans people" following the Tavistock case.

Good Law Project said it was "appalled" that U.K. health secretary Wes Streeting "commissioned and published a report to reassure the public that there was no significant rise in suicide rates, when 22 children took their own lives in a single year: 2021-22." The Appleby report, they said, "denied the reality of trans deaths, as Streeting's ban on puberty blockers denied the reality of trans lives."

The nonprofit claims that Streeting department "fought tooth and nail" to block its freedom of information requests.

Someone said on some other post that they can kill us all. And there will still be trans people. There will always be transgender children. My heart breaks for all the families whose loved ones were killed by the culture wars. Regardless of which side of which ocean they abide.

The ruling about the Gender Equality Act must have made things even worse. 

Some time ago I read about J K Rowling's quite recent tirade against Emma Watson, whose criticism of her campaign against transgender rights Rowling blamed for a number of online threats against her.  Such threats are out of order, of course but I just can't understand how Rowling can be blind to the additional danger that her campaign inflicts on the already vulnerable trans community.  She can't be lacking in native intelligence.  I suppose that irrational fear and hatred block all rational judgment. 

From what I can gather, it all started with a single rape in a Scottish prison, snowballing with the help of Rowling's formidable rhetoric and mass media controller Elon Musk's expansion of his resentment against his own trans daughter into a vernichtungskrieg^* against the very concept of being transgender. 

Musk admitted that it was the root of his hatred of the whole concept of "woke".  Just think.  If Musk hadn't had a trans daughter, Trump probably wouldn't have had enough money or media support to be re-elected.

^*Sorry, it looks and sounds so much more appropriate in German.

Quote from: MaryT on February 13, 2026, 03:58:10 PMI just can't understand how Rowling can be blind to the additional danger that her campaign inflicts on the already vulnerable trans community.

It's not that she and others are oblivious. It's that they don't care.
It's part of the whole "Rules for Thee, but Not for Me" group.

Rowling is a spiteful hateful person. She doesn't care who she hurts trans or cis as long as she gets her narrative out there. She wants women to take pictures of women who even look like they can be trans in the washroom and post those picture online shaming the women. She frames it as men in women's washrooms.

But I can see the U.K. government hiding numbers, it doesn't fit their narrative or at least that's what it looks like to me.

Quote from: Lori Dee on February 13, 2026, 06:17:57 PMIt's not that she and others are oblivious. It's that they don't care.
It's part of the whole "Rules for Thee, but Not for Me" group.

This is the sad truth.

The people with all the money, power, and a monopoly on soapboxes do not care about the damage they're doing. As long as you worship them.

The worst thing about all this, is that before the Labour government got in power, they were seen as the pro-trans party. Starmer went out of his way to support trans people and condemn the right wing Conservative party's stance on it all. He was seen as someone who gave a crap.

Then, as with probably everything else, once he got comfy in no 10, Starmer decided to systematically dismantle all his principles, beliefs and policies. The guy is the worst kind of politician. The kind that lies to you until you elect them. I think Trump getting in and deciding he hated Trans people probably led to most of his stance on it. Al Murray, the comedian, put it best. Britain is like the weak kid hiding behind a bully. When they bully someone, we are too scared to not agree with them lest we get bullied.