Wallace Wong, a child psychologist, can be heard saying that his paediatric gender clinic sees around five hundred children who are in public care. His caseload is around one thousand, he says, and his youngest client not yet three. He advises parents to accelerate children’s transition by exaggerating their gender dysphoria, and claiming that if transition is prevented, they will kill themselves. ‘Pull a stunt,’ he says. ‘Suicide, every time – they will give you what you need.’
