Two stories caught my eye this week. The first tells of a rape in an NHS ward. When police were called to the unnamed hospital in England, they were allegedly told by staff that ‘there was no male’ on the single-sex ward, ‘therefore the rape could not have happened’. Twelve months later, they revealed one of the patients had been transgender. It has taken nearly a year for the hospital to agree that there was a male on the ward and, yes, this rape happened. We learn this in the same week we are expected to believe that a strapping six foot bloke is a women’s swimming champion.

The other story, though was the revelation that there are now 5,500 children on NHS waiting list for gender swap treatment after post-lockdown surge in demand. It comes as the CQC found numerous failings at the Tavistock Clinic, after a string of whistleblowers raised concerns that the Gender Identify Development Service fails to properly support vulnerable children and has pushed them towards life-changing sex-change treatments.

The short of it is that the gender bending fad is a social contagion. A human being cannot change sex. A surgically mutilated man pumped with hormones remains a man. Further, there is no such thing as gender dysphoria in children. What we see is a consequence of parents projecting their trendy anxieties and sexist stereotypes on to their kids. If the health system was functioning, these parents would be told to leave their kids alone.

As far as the arms of state are concerned, though – including the police – pretending you’re a member of the opposite sex is not just a kink, it’s something we’re all supposed to take seriously as a legitimate identity – or else. All must kneel before the flag of the Rainbow Reich. That’s why men are now raping women in female only spaces.

The other side of this is that young women are also falling prey to the gender bending ideology, going overseas to have their breasts surgically removed without first seeking psychotherapy. Some who have detransitioned now report all manner of health problems, and alarmingly report that they were encouraged down he path of hormones and surgery with next to no clinical vetting.

There is a wealth of analysis on this subject, which I do not intend to replicate here. The point for me is that this has happened under the radar, where the medical profession has fallen for a political ideology – hook, line and sinker. Qualified medical professionals who ought to know better.

This didn’t happen overnight. This has been building for more than a decade, and gender dysphoria is the new anorexia. The difference being that we don’t tell anorexics they look great and should continue starving themselves. This is what happens when democratic oversight is removed from the system, Academics and activists in positions of influence have quietly installed woke gender theories in university curriculums and civil service training programmes and there are no adults in the room with the guts to call it out. There are professional consequences for those who do.

As to the wider consequences of allowing fetishists and perverts to call themselves women, nothing we’re seeing in the news of late is anything surprising. We are not surprised to see men raping women in women’s prisons and hospital wards. But when you can end up with your name on a hate crime list, a cowardly silence falls over the public sector.

And we’ve seen this before. Nobody was ever supposed to question the mantra that diversity makes us stronger and that multiculturalism was an unalloyed good. Anyone expressing doubts would be marked as a racist, and consequently thousands of girls were allowed to be raped and violated by Pakistani men – all in the name diversity.

And so it is with Net Zero. The entire energy sector is in the grip of radical environmentalist dogma at the highest levels, and though they know they can’t keep the lights on with just windmills, they’ll push is as far as they can. Meanwhile, the same institutional capture is happening in immigration policy, where open borders fanatics masquerading as refugee charities are quietly dismantling our border controls.

The point you should keep in mind is that this has all been happening under a Conservative government, and it will keep happening because this Conservative government, supposedly the most right wing government ever, has done precisely nothing with its enormous majority to prevent any of it.

Worse still, they are on board for the most part. The latest surge in energy bills has done little to dampen their Net zero ambitions. It’s not just a passing political slogan. It’s enshrined in law, and they intend to follow it. They don’t care if you have to choose between eating and heating.

We are told by Boris fanboys that voting for anyone but the Tories is a wasted vote, and to vote for anyone else will let Labour in. That logic held up (to a point) in 2017 and 2019, but not now. The police still feel within their rights to ride around in rainbow cars, they have no intention of deporting illegal immigrants, and are again looking to use migrants as a cheap and exploitable labour force. The NHS will continue feeding hormones to kids, Your children will be taught they are guilty for being white and your daughters will be told to share changing rooms with boys.

Ultimately if you vote the same, you get the same. You now know that Boris Johnson is an empty vessel. You need no reminding that the Tories are the same old establishment party, and if you’re still voting for them then all of the above is on you. You don’t get to blame “the woke left” or the civil service or the NGOcracy. You are getting precisely what you voted for.