On the day the Final CASS Independent review of gender identity services for children and young people is published, The Metro snoozepaper won the Most Ironic Headline Award for most ironic headline on the front page of a British newspaper.
While other newspapers expressed concern over past, present and future trans affirming NHS treatment of children and young people, even shockingly, The Guardian, The Metro chose to lead with irony with their headline: “RATS INFEST NHS WARDS”.
We do not yet know how many children and young people in the UK have unnecessarily had breasts removed, have been castrated, or have had various forms of genital mutilation carried out by the taxpaper funded NHS. We at The Notional feel that this child abuse deserves headlines of its own. We wait to see if the Metro will one day agree.