Kemi Badenoch sticks to the facts

Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch wrote to the Women and Equalities Committee .

She highlighted a worrying lack of knowledge by colleagues (on all sides), who did not seem to be on top of their brief.

The most likely outcome for gender non-conforming young people is to be gay or lesbian as an adult, she writes.

Conservative MP Elliot Colburn and Caroline Nokes were seemingly unaware that referrals to NHS England’s only children gender clinic based at the Tavistock Trust in London has increased dramatically over the last decade and a half.

Referral figures have been published annually . They are included in the official NHS -commissioned Cass Review of youth gender identity services.