One of the most disturbing aspects of this unfolding scandal is how successfully the public has been kept in the dark. If people understood the full extent of what has been happening to vulnerable children, I believe the outrage would be overwhelming. What the ideologues driving this agenda have achieved, with the willing connivance of progressive political parties and much of the media, is extraordinary. They’ve managed to dress up a child harming scandal as an emancipation movement, and present potentially devastating, irreversible interventions on vulnerable children as acts of kindness and compassion. And this is where I believe my own employer, the BBC, bears enormous responsibility. Had it subjected these claims to robust scrutiny from the outset, rather than actively promoting gender ideology, how many vulnerable children might have been spared life-altering harm that can never be undone? There have, of course, been notable exceptions at the BBC: a handful of journalists who have asked the difficult questions. But the occasional investigation on Newsnight or Panorama hardly has the same cut-through as the stories the BBC relentlessly promotes across its platforms. Consider how much attention Meghan Markle is receiving right now, compared with the scrutiny devoted to vulnerable children undergoing puberty suppression or irreversible surgery in the name of so-called progress. The BBC knows perfectly well how to make an issue impossible to ignore. The question is, why hasn’t it? Well, we know why: institutional capture. When the reckoning comes, as it surely will, and the children harmed by these interventions grow into adults forced to live with the devastating, irreversible consequences, those who were supposed to protect them must be held accountable for their betrayal. So too must the political and media establishment that put progressive virtue-signalling ahead of safeguarding vulnerable children, and ideological conformity ahead of confronting the harm being done. And I fear that the BBC, which has failed a generation of vulnerable young people so comprehensively, will find itself engulfed in the greatest scandal of its history.