The current Tory government is pretty good with words. They are, sadly, less good when it comes to putting those words into action. They’ve spoken a lot of the right seeming words and made the correct noises about things like immigration, the Channel invader crisis, free speech, energy security and the need for reform in the public sector. Unfortunately what we’ve had from this government is just that, words. There has been no proper action against levels of immigration that clearly need, both for economic and social cohesion reasons, to be reduced. There has been no moves to protect or enhance the speech rights of British subjects, the government’s energy policy has been revealed to be a castle built on shifting sands and the public sector is as unreformed and as disgracefully wasteful as ever it was.

But there’s another area where the Government has spoken the words that many of us want to hear but have then proceeded to do little or nothing about the subject they’ve pontificated about. In this area, that of gender identity politics, the Government have quite rightly stood up and acknowledged that the Cult of Trans has gone too far. The Government was presented, over the course of years, with comprehensive and irrefutable evidence that young people, in particular young women, suffering from what are mental health conditions that manifest in gender identity issues, were being hastily rushed into embarking on medical and surgical procedures that would mutilate and sterilise them. Eventually the Government or rather elements within it started to make the right or rather the morally correct noises about the actions of NHS gender identity staff and the decisions they’ve made along with siding with parents who are unhappy that children are being fed the falsehood that they can be what they are not.

A lot of people welcomed the criticism of the gender identity cult when it was voiced by the Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi and by the Health Secretary Sajid Javid. These are the words that we wanted to hear coming from our political leaders. Many of us wanted to hear that no longer would trans activists be going into schools and lying to our kids by telling them that they could change their sex or that the NHS should not be transitioning mentally distressed teenage girls.

The problem is, as the writer Josephine Bartosch writing in The Critic magazine, has discovered, is that the words from various government ministers about the need to rein in the excesses of the cult of trans are just that, words. Despite the Government’s public facing attitude to the problems in schools and the NHS when it comes to the gender identity cult and its influence, little concrete appears to be being done.

The NHS is still advertising for medical practitioners who will carry out ‘masculinising’ procedures at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on girls aged 17 and over despite the Health Secretary denouncing the NHS for ‘ideological’ gender treatments and stating that the NHS is ‘failing children’ by embarking on inappropriate gender transitions of them. Various trans activist groups are also still being contracted by schools to help to teach the now compulsory Relationship and Sex Education lessons.

The Government is making the right noises about safeguarding children and stopping them from becoming victims of what are quite plainly experimental and often failed or inappropriate gender transition treatments, treatments that the patients, as they mature as individuals, seem increasingly to be regretting. However it’s where words need to be transmuted into actions where this Government is failing. Despite stating the obvious that gender ideology and gender transition treatments should not be given to those who are intellectually unable to either properly consent or be aware of the long term consequences, the trans cult marches through our institutions without proper challenge. Our children are still being lied to by gender identity cultists in schools and the mini-Mengeles of the NHS are still cutting healthy breasts off of mentally ill young women in order to ‘affirm’ the delusions of the patient.

The problem of children being afflicted by gender identity treatments in such a way that it will impinge on and impede their life chances is still with us, despite the correct seeming words uttered by our politicians. When the Government should be taking action to protect children and young people from the ministrations of a cult that is completely detached from reality, all we get is empty words. We should expect better than that from our government. We deserve better than that.

Bullshit is no substitute for concrete action against an ideology that is harming children and removing rights that women need and which were fought for since the 19^th century. The problem is that bullshit is all we seem to be getting from this government on this issue just as we get bullshit from government about excessive migration, energy policy, free speech and the failures of our public sector.