Mark Carney used his teenage daughter Cleo, a first year student at Harvard, to introduce him at the recent Liberal convention where party members voted to make him the Prime Minister. But Cleo isn’t Carney’s only daughter. Carney and his wife Diana Fox have four daughters, and the eldest, 24, is a prolific writer and trans activist.
In the alternative magazine Authenticity, Sasha Carney penned an essay in April 2020 called Mumsnet, and Transmasculine Childhood. In the essay, Sasha talks about her experiences of feeling confused about her gender as a teenager and receiving treatment at the discredited Tavistock gender clinic in London, England.
The Carney family moved from Ottawa, Canada to London in 2013 so that Mark Carney could become the Governor of the Bank of England. According to an interview she gave for the Ottawa publication Apt 613, Sasha (then Sophia) was 13-years-old when the family relocated. Records show she moved back to North America to attend Yale University in 2017.
Sasha describes how one of her friends tried to game the system in order to get “top surgery” – a double incision mastectomy meant to “masculinize” young gender-confused women.
“I watched as my friend, after a year of weekly appointments trying desperately to get an official diagnosis of gender dysphoria, was denied the diagnosis, and with it any hope of top surgery because they sometimes wore skirts.”
Sasha also notes that she attended therapy at the infamous Tavistock clinic.
“I felt a fierce surge of jealousy every time I walked into the Tavistock for therapy and saw patients turn left, towards the medical spaces I didn’t feel “trans enough” to enter.”
The Tavistock clinic was ultimately shut down after years of controversy surrounding its treatment methods, which critics say amounted to medical experiments on children.
Tavistock’s child transitioning practice shuttered its doors in April 2024 after reporters revealed that minors were being rushed into life-altering treatment with few precautions. Ultimately, years of concerns from whistleblowers, clinicians and detransitioners forced the U.K.’s National Health Service to order the clinic’s closure.
The clinic prescribed puberty blockers to more than 1,000 children, some as young as six years old, without adequate psychological evaluations. In total, 382 children aged six and under were referred to the gender identity service at the clinic. It was accused of serving as a conveyor belt funnelling confused youth who often had concurrent mental health diagnoses into gender transitions, side-stepping proper medical scrutiny.
A court case brought by detransitioner Keira Bell was the final nail in Tavistock’s coffin. Bell testified she was fast-tracked into puberty blockers at 16 without fully understanding the consequences. The lawsuit triggered a wider probe, leading to the damning Cass review, which concluded that the treatment was harmful to children and little evidence existed to justify it.
It is unclear how long Sasha Carney attended therapy at Tavistock, or if it provided her with any so-called “gender affirming” treatment.
Neither Sasha Carney nor Mark Carney responded to requests for comment from True North.
Born Sophia, she legally changed her name to Sasha in 2021 in New York but had been using the name Sasha for many years prior. In a 2019 news article for the New Haven Register, Sasha celebrates Yale for offering “3 gender choices” on student IDs and identifies as being “non-binary.”
Sasha has written for many publications, promoting a hard Left worldview and advocating for things like prison abolition and for controversial pharmaceutical drugs known as “puberty blockers” for gender-confused children.
She also wrote about the “genealogy of lesbian social spaces at Yale” for the New Journal at Yale, but in later publications she railed against what she calls TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists).
