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The interim report came out about two years ago, in from the Cass Review and already it was clear that it was going to be quite critical overall.

We were hoping that like we those of us who were worried about the way that gender medicine proceeds, especially in

pediatric clinics, were hoping that she would give further credence to the arguments we've been making

for years that this is not really medicine, that children are being subjected to an uncontrolled experiment on a

basis of shodier and no evidence and she really said all of that.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. Like many of you I imagine I've been following the protests at American universities which have now spread around the globe

somewhat closely.

I have two observations about them.

The first is that we should remember that the basic cause of the protesters is in principle a noble one,

that it's possible to be horrified by the terrible Hamas attack on Israeli civilians on

October 7th, but also to be pained and horrified by the large number of civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip over the course of the last month.

That makes it all the sadder that core parts of this protest movement have not been able, not been

willing to distance themselves from its extreme elements, that it is organized in good

part by an organization that celebrated a master's attack in the immediate aftermath of October 7th, that slogans like globalize the intifada have become mainstream at these protests.

The second point I want to make is that universities are now paying the price for their failure to enforce a clear set of rules around free speech over the course of the last years and decades.

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