As if crowdfunding and blowing almost £720,000 on trying and – so far – failing to undo the Supreme Court’s April 2025 ruling in the case of For Women Scotland isn’t bonkers enough – because, if the Supreme Court says it is the law, it is the law – this week the Good Law Project, led by infamous turd polisher Jolyon Maugham KC, announced they are going to fund what an NHS Patient Safety Investigation has concluded is the “inappropriate prescription of medications to children and young people” by a GP Practice in the Brighton area.

Yesterday, the GLP announced they plan to spend “a big five-figure sum” on funding “access to gender affirming private [sic] healthcare for at least ten trans minor patients of [Brighton] WellBN whose treatment has been withdrawn and whose financial need is greatest for three years or until those children turn 18 (whichever is the sooner).” And they launched a crowdfunder (without a specified target) to ensure “we can support even more [sic] trans kids to receive the medical care they urgently need. With your help, we’ll do everything in our power to protect them.”

What the GLP fails to mention, however, is that the decision by NHS England and the local NHS Trust to instruct the Brighton WellBN GP Practice to “stop prescribing hormonal medications to children under 18 years outside of NHS policy and guidance”, to “not resume offering specialist gender care to children under 18 years” and ensure that “the Practice’s public facing materials make this clear with immediate effect” follows the conclusion of a Patient Safety Investigation that Brighton WellBN Practice was “inappropriately prescribing medications to children and young people for the clinical indication of gender dysphoria”, and that “potential harm has been caused to the 78 children and young people who are within the scope of the Investigation”.

The Investigation’s key findings are quite astonishing:

As for the children and young people in question, the Investigation report states:

Gender dysphoria and incongruence require specialist care. Therefore, to receive NHS care and support, an individual needs to be under the care of one of the nationally commissioned specialist services.

If not already receiving care from specialist gender services, those in scope of the Investigation will have up to the 31 July 2026 to consider whether to accept being referred to these services, or not.

So, no one is being denied appropriate NHS care and support. They are being protected from harm.

Yet for Maugham and the GLP, the Patient Safety Investigation is simply part of the “ideological crusade that this Government has embarked upon against trans people”.

Utterly bonkers.