During the Oxford Literary Festival, Helen Joyce, a gender-critical activist, claimed that doctors providing gender-affirming care to transgender young people should be jailed for life. She discussed the alleged negative outcomes faced by some patients, despite research indicating low regret rates for gender transition compared to other medical procedures. Joyce described the experience of being transgender as a 'social contagion' among teenage girls, suggesting that their motivations might stem from a desire to escape conventional identities.
"These people are never going to face what they deserve. There are people I could name right now whom I would like to see in jail for the rest of their lives but it's not going to happen."
"If you are a teenage girl who doesn't want to be a girl, that's too boring and straightforward a thing to say. You want to be a special sort of person, you want out, you want to escape from whatever it is you're trying to escape from."
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