i mean, there's an author, hannah barnes, who's written a book, time to think, addressing the transgenderhe looks in detail. she analyzes the work of a clinic which works in the transgender space. she says, and she's been tweeting, "it is very difficult to get this book "in waterstones, even though it's on the national bestseller lists." why? we take in, initially, an order, we send them out through the stores and in this case didn't order enough copies. it happens. you will run out of a book in a shop for three reasons. either we will mess up, centrally we just won't put in enough copies, the publisher won't print enough, or the bookjust takes off in a dramatic way. we run out of colleen hoover. we run out oij rowling. these things happen. in this case, it was our fault. we didn't put in enough copies initially. back in 2021 to other authors who were writing about the transgender issue, which is a very deeply controversial issue, has very strong opinions on both sides of a debate. two other authors, helenjoyce, kathleen stock, they said that waterstones was not properly promoting and dis

what teenagers have always done, which is experiment themselves and work out well, that's what hannah barnesen a very good book about the tavistock gender identity service and what they found was there's been it's not, nigel, that that kids are relaxed this now there has been an explosion in teenage girls specifically suddenly deciding look teenage girls i was a teenage girl. you dislike your body, you wish you something else. what you don't need is someone saying you're probably trans. no, you could well be gay and you'll write down because what's happening is there is homophobic attitudes so young potentially either gay potentially either gay potentially gay boys and girls or they'll just, you know, just people who just freak out. so now what you're having is you're having trans people saying, oh, that person, she was not martin's and dungarees feminism . yes. was all about you could be a girly girl could be kylie minogue or could be some of the young boys who prefer ballet to football . but you're not you're football. but you're not you're not trans because you're that kind of person . so

what teenagers have always done, which is experiment themselves and work out well, that's what hannah barnesen a very good book about the tavistock gender identity service and what they found was there's been it's not, nigel, that that kids are relaxed this now there has been an explosion in teenage girls specifically suddenly deciding look teenage girls i was a teenage girl. you dislike your body, you wish you something else. what you don't need is someone saying you're probably trans. no, you could well be gay and you'll write down because what's happening is there is homophobic attitudes so young potentially either gay potentially either gay potentially gay boys and girls or they'll just, you know, just people who just freak out. so now what you're having is you're having trans people saying, oh, that person, she was not martin's and dungarees feminism . yes. was all about you could be a girly girl could be kylie minogue or could be some of the young boys who prefer ballet to football . but you're not you're football. but you're not you're not trans because you're that kind of person . so