Ben Leo’s interview with Helen Webberley is a chilling dramatisation of what happens when ideology meets reality – and ideology persists. The GB News host questioned Webberley, founder of telemedicine clinic GenderGP, on the organisation’s willingness to prescribe puberty-blocking drugs to minors and the reported side effects of these pharmaceuticals, which have been said to limit sexual function in adulthood.

The exchanges are chilling because as Leo describes the risks of this treatment pathway, Webberley leaps from pedantry to dismissal to denial, and at no point is there even a hint of self-reflection or contrition. The facts are devastating for Webberley’s brand of medicine, but still no match for her ideological zeal.

Leo gives Webberley an example: the other day, his two-year-old son announced that he was going to have a baby. Leo told him that boys can’t have babies, only girls can, and so Zack said that he now wanted to be a girl. The next day, Leo added, the boy informed his father that he was going to be Spider-Man. For Leo, this was an object lesson in the dangers of ‘affirming’ gender........

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