The Cass Review: the end of the trans cult?
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Gender ideology has been dealt a huge blow. A landmark report by Dr Hilary Cass in England has sent shockwaves through the establishment, laying waste to the evidence base for so-called gender-affirming care and exposing a medical scandal of tremendous proportions. Thousands of confused children were sacrificed at the altar of wokeness. Detransitioners, whistleblowers and gender-critical campaigners have been vindicated. But what now? Here, Tom Slater explores the findings of the Cass Review, the hysterical responses to it and the prospects for a proper reckoning. Be sure to share, subscribe and let us know what you think in the comments.
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Who would have ever thought allowing an impressionable young girl to start their sex change at 12 years of age was a bad idea? I’m shocked
Those responsible for damage to kids need held accountable and jail
And those in the media and positions of influence who ruined the careers of the intelligent, sensible and decent need to be removed.
How can we make this happen?
Too late, in a lot of places. They've already managed to get legal protections put in place for themselves, "thanks" to "Progressive" governments.
If you've seen some of the "results" (nsfw obv) imagine 15 years from now how pissed some of those kids are gonna be at their parents.
The lawsuits are rolling in and will become an avalanche. Hungry lawyers will eat the medical establishment.
@@DannyTimms-j8q I beg to differ. We on our side believe they will be tried on assault charges and all medicine and surgeries will cease for gender transition. A doctor's liability insurance will be the first to buckle as no doctor will practice without it. We are not optimistic as worldwide there are more dictators emerging and it will bite those who are initially for it. Everything is extreme as the folks who donate to political campaigns can shame politicians quickly with social media if they moderate out.
Australia had a system where the courts got involved to make sure it was in the interest of the adolescent. Many would say that it's never in anyone's interest to transition but throwing term around like "mutilation" and "gender confused"; that's why we discourage discourse. One does not want to debate their civil rights because there's no advantage for the one being challenged. If they win, they hold onto them but if they lose, their out. There's fewer win-win situations in politics today and it causes escalation and instability.
"Gender Affirming Care", "Safe and Effective"... how our language has been warped beyond parody.
1) Speaking of the corruption of our language...
I have multiple dictionaries that define gender as sex... yes, just the one word definition... gender = sex.
(Yes, the definition which applies to linguistics/languages is also included.)
(Edit - added the "1)" at the beginning... in case YT's MiniTruth decides to lose my post.)
Post 2) And in other, somewhat related, news... YT is so afraid that someone's feelings might get hurt, that they actively promote (through censorship) knowledge that might actually *help* people.
@@Nyet-Zdyes Well, aren't they the same basically the same?
@@H0PEisaL1E IMO, yes, they ARE the same... but they have been trying to redefine the word "gender" to mean something that... has no basis in reality.
@@H0PEisaL1E SECOND attempt to answer this... after YT censored the previous one.
It depends on whose definition that you use for the word which starts with "g".
Classically, yes, they are the same.
Today? It depends on who you ask.
Considering the doctor who did that report now can’t use public transport and has received hateful messages Simply the answer is no for the radical ones
That's depressing but not exactly a surprise. She will be celebrated over time as should others such as Graham Linehan,
And Kelly Jane minshull and Helen Joyce and jk Rowling and Buck Angel and people who believe sex is real and we should never harm any children.
People are bad a being nice.
@@duncanhewitt6557Buck? Transpa! R u fucking joking 😝
It's so ghoulish that they pushed all these drugs on people, especially children.
Brought to us by those same type of Leftists... "not sees"... that brought us other highly unethical experiments back in the 1930's and 1940's.
How can anyone think cutting healthy parts off a child is a good idea? It boggles my mind.
And the surgeries 🙈
They didn't push anything. That's what they want you to think. They wanted to take it
@joemama5181 Bro you do realise that you can't have a sex change till you're 18? They're not doing operations on 4 year olds
In years to come, we will look back on this medical practice with the same revulsion as we do lobotomies today.
Thalidomide.
@theresas740 I'd say it's worse than that. The birth defects were an unforseen side-effect. "Gender affirming care" is intentionally mutilating and sterilizing young people to satisfy an ideology.
I remember the scandal with forced sterilisation of "undesirables". That ended when I was a child but the suffering of the victims continued.
The only difference is that this movement has a lot more self-deletions, and people who would deny the deletions were caused by the "care" they received.
By then big Pharma will have propagandised a new set of money making victoms
People have to stand up to these trans activists and stop being so spineless and sitting on the fence.
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph..."
Hundred 👍💯
LOL, well fabricating data and cherry-picking your studies definitely makes it plain that the anti- point of view is pure fiction from the minds of grifting bigots.
J.K. Rowling have been fighting against it for years, despite the hate she revived.
She could have stayed quite like so many others did, and kept her fans.
But instead she spoke her mind and concerns, and she got roasted for it.
Fans hating her and turning their back on her.
Even going as far as to boycott all Harry Potter related things, and ripping off her books cover and replacing them, so her names would no longer be on her books.
@@monberg1000 But slowly, ever so slowly, it's coming to light, who is *really* going to be on the wrong side of history, as they say... and it's not JKR.
It's going to be EW and DR, among others.
A criminal lawyer should now be tasked with investigating those who pushed the various 'treatments' for profit, not for the wellbeing of the patients.
The should be prosecuted and they should be sent to jail.
There's just far too many of them. But we might do well to send a few high-ups to prison, to show that harming people through bullshit over science has consequences.
@@greenaum you could always suspend their licenses during an investigation and imprison the worst offenders, that would make them have consider what they have done with a signed agreement before a license is given back. This might give a shortfall of medical practitioners for a period but who needs doctors etc that act in the manner that these have
It’s so scary here in Australia because we have almost ZERO pushback! We are passing more and more self ID and “ conversion therapy ban” laws every year!
Am not too surprised about Australia, the country which disarmed its citizens back in 1996
You may find that what has happened here in the UK will help our embattled cousins in Australia. Things have already started to change in some places in Canada (of all places) - so there's always hope.
Sall Grover must win..get behind her and help the pushback
Canada feels you on this one
pushing back is terrifying when you have kids to provide for, snd opening ur mouth will have you loose your job, house and home 😢
If un-affirmed suicide is such a risk for the huge numbers of young gender dysphoric, then where are the heaps of dead by their own hand kids throughout history before this 'care' was a reality? They aren't there, because the overwhelming majority of those kids went on to figure out the confusion of puberty, like most others do, or they ended up being standard 'gay', without the lifelong dependence on expensive and dangerous exotic drugs and medical procedures or risk of sterility.
The suicide risk is BS. Just exactly as you said. Also the "transgenocide" is BS too.
The truly awful statistic is the suicide rate of people who have transitioned.
That’s why life expectancy was so low before the 19th century, 30% of the population just an heroed because they didn’t have access to puberty blockers
How all these weirdos suddenly get so much power?
Because of a certain type of person that feels the need to signal their own virtue... without actually *being* virtuous.
It’s part of the plan for globalists, they want the west to implode. Sterilization, population control etc etc, plus need to keep medical system and political “libs” in business. Lots of unethical profit
It all started in the halls of academia, where all power has stemmed from the past couple of centuries. Radical leftists have completely taken over education systems all over the Western world. 😒
They joined a cult that already had power.
The compelled silence of the elites, and the ignoring of the ordinary, sensible masses who said this was madness all along.............Simples!
CLASS ACTION!!! The CASS review (4yrs of research by an esteemed/respected Paediatrician) and the WPATH Files in the USA should put the final nails in the coffin of this horrific ideology
Yeah but I don't think it's over yet
@@JaneA544Far from it. The rainbow cult is going to go scorched-earth nuclear over this, I'm sure. They'll destroy anyone they can.
The truth doesn’t matter. Comments are shadow banned. Algorithms are in place to suppress opposing views. Institutions are captured. This comment will probably disappear into cyber space. If the truth mattered, the movement would never have made it past the planning stages.
@@JaneA544 We've been here before with facilitated communication. It was
If they weren't both controlled release , then yes, they would put the nail in the coffin. Unfortunately while the review part of the Cass Review reveals what same people would rightly recognise as horrors, Cass herself has suggested a new MO for continuing to experiment on the very youngest victims , including with the use of " puberty blockers ". This isn't the end. It is meant to be the end of concerns . To admit the facts, then demonstrate that they won't stop the continuing project. Of course we need to stop that.
Excellent summary. It's been a mad old decade, with people calling me a bigot for being against the sterilization, medicalization and plastic surgery performed on children and young people, many of whom are autistic or gay, and refusing to believe in a neo-religious gender soul. Spiked has helped me feel less alone.
Never forget you are in the majority, you always were. People prepared to be silenced are also working out the sky won't fall in if they don't cave. We'll see change. It was inevitable. Give a spoilt tantrum thrower an inch and they will take a mile. They've done most of this work for us with their ever increasing ridiculous demands most of us saw coming a mile away but government/authorities were slow on the uptake of. They care about votes but listened to lobby groups over constitutents. Most are listening now.
And the decade isn't even halfway through yet.
Giving kids puberty blockers for their perceived body dysmorphia is like giving liposuction to an anorexic because they see themselves as fat. What they need is counseling.
That is a brilliant comparison!
We know, and experts like Dr Paul McHugh have known this for decades.
Or affirming that psychotic patients' delusions and hallucinations are simply "their truths", and not mental abberations at all! 😉
Well said!
Liposuction isnt a known treatment for anorexia
Gender affirmative care is the only effective one for gender disphoria
So it's a pretty bad analogy tbh
and all the predators should now no longer have ANY cover for their disgusting, heinous crimes.
I wish that were true. But have you listened to what Cass herself is saying about ongoing experiments on the very youngest victims , including with the use of blockers ??? It's not what everyone is hoping it to be . Quite the opposite.
My heart breaks for the kids damaged by this horror show.
You'd hope their parents would feel like shit, but the sort of parent who pushes this is generally alien to the concept of shame.
@@greenaum Some parents yes, but i think a lot were manipulated by "experts" who put the fear of suicide into the picture.
And their parents.
And the parents who were pressured with the “Do you want a trans kid or a dead kid?” argument. Awful for parents in custody battles when the law sides with the “gender affirming” parent over the parent with sense.
@@stumccabeNot necessarily. It was their job to protect them.
I’m just SO thankful this report wasn’t suppressed!
People don't often mention how extremely creepy it is that that famous Bud Light person (I'm happy to have forgotten the name) talked about being a girl, not a woman.
He's another weirdo. He both infaniltilises and sexualises himself. Creepy.
Worse part is the evil doers will never admit their evil actions
Yes, but evil doers never will, whatever evil they commit. History has told us this.
If the do admit they will be adamant that it wasn't evil but good. Those will also "mourn" that their Crusade has been forcible ended.
One can only hope the courts will.
They see themselves as champions of the New Reality. They must be stopped. Gay boys & girls - and young hetero women - must be protected.
When I was a kid I wanted to be a ninja turtle. So my parents had my skin chemically dyed green, had my fingers fused together, had a fiberglass shell grafted to my back, gave me karate lessons, only fed me pizza, and let me live in the sewer with a rat so I could live my truth.
No, they didn't, because unlike these parents, mine weren't insane narcissists.
That....that's quite the imagination 👍
Wow, consider a career in writing! Well said
When you were a kid you were ignorant of trans issues, and you still are.
Only one question: what makes you think this is associated with narcissism?
You'd watch your own kid die of cancer while gaslighting them that those tumors sprouting out of their body were just large pimples.
That's what kind of parent you would be
Their ideology refuses any hint of it being incorrect therefore they will never accept that they are incorrect.
Edit: Typo
Although they're wrong about so, so much.
Not only refuses any hint but only survives on intimidation of anyone who questioned it - but that was all with the support of very many people with influence or authority who latched onto trans ideologybas a typical self-righteous moral idiocy with which to enjoy flexing their little bit of power over others and at the same time patting themselves on their backs in deluding themselves into moral superiority.
By the way, it's not merely about childcare - the whole intense irrationality and indefensible rejection of basic logic on which 'self-identity' and coerced speech is based has played havoc with genuine liberation movements everywhere.
Their and if provide good evidence ste what the cass report did was show how we can’t expect medical rigor when it comes to the subject.
@@Phoneybeetlemaniacxs Word, thank you.
Oh dear. If there’s one thing i’ve learned about people, is that we never learn
It's a cult. It's a club. Wanna join? Tell mommy, better yet your teacher, that you gots a booboo. Remember the 'recovered memory' public hysteria of the late 90''s and early 2000's? Same thing.
Yes, indeed, it really is the same thing.
No, this is much, much, much, much worse, and it's even worse than that.
If I recall correctly, and I DO, that was fashioned out of whole cloth as well. Not one bit of it true.
It would be hard to find more ruthless Orwellian doublespeak than "Gender-affirming care" for the sexual psychosurgery, surgical sexual mutilation and chemical castration inflicted on kids.
They never had patients’ best interests at heart. They were always just trying to radicalize another batch of revolutionaries.
Stagnant water becomes poisonous - our society/culture and more so the US society/culture has become stagnant and poisonous in the same way. This is just one of the poisons and its a great relief that such a study could be carried out. i cant imagine it being allowed to happen in the US.
There is no way the study would be allowed in US. Open discourse and ability to follow evidence in an objective way are dead. It’s more about political victory than truth. Then to ask experts to admit being wrong, good luck with that.
Hilary Cass deserves a knighthood for this great and highly important work that she and her team have done to put a stop to this terrible wrongdoing to children.
We cannot be who we 'want' to be, we are what we were created as and no amount of drugs, surgery, lying and bullying can change this truth. It simply can't, full stop.
To the list of ‘fear, ideology and self-censorship’ I would add ‘self-entitlement and ideological terrorism’.
That was very well done. Concise and including all the real facts.
SNP and Scotish Greens are taking on this battle, it won't end well for them at the ballat box.
We can only hope, they are a dangerous lot.
Are there a bunch of sheep there? In a lot of Western areas, people are no longer capable of common sense and reason but claim to be intellectuals.
Childhood sexual trauma can stay there your whole life if its not treated appropriately
Will the Labour Party now make a public apology to Rosy Duffield?
The sad thing is that, when this is over, the delulus will find a new topic, a new identity, new victims...
Oppression isn't so bad when the right people are oppressed 😅😂
I say that over night: No.
But if a BBC show "Have I Got News For You" is only now willing to make fun of gender ideology in ways they never could before. Then I say it is a slow progress and the Cass Report is started something great....
I noticed that joke too. Very interesting.
LGB without the TQ+
Bloody well said. Let's hope custodial sentences follow in the wake of the Cass Report.
8:15 - The horrible thing about this stat, is that it's not a new one. Kenneth Zucker, a child psychologist who ran Canada's largest child gender health clinic for 30 years, said something very similar - that in cases where kids who experienced gender dysphoria/incongruence but were NOT put on blockers or hormones, 90% of them grew out of those feelings by adulthood, and 80% of them turned out to be gay. Kenneth Zucker lost his job after being campaigned against by trans activists because his stats were troublesome to them.
While Zucker can definitely be criticised for his apparently unsympathetic approach to people claiming they were suffering from gender dysphoria, I expect the 90% of patients he had that grew into healthy, medically-unaffected adults are grateful for his care in retrospect.
YT has taken down my comments about this, along with those about the studies done in the Nordic countries. They even went so far as a 24 hour suspension. This kind of censorship is truly frightening.
I doubt many of them have the courage to admit they were wrong. They will simply become irrelevant, drowned out by a sea of snark any time they dare speak.
Today it's not lack of courage it's that many of the last 2 generations were raised told they could do no wrong believed it and as adults, arrogantly so. Actually admitting one is wrong today is one of those things some just can't say even when they know it. They're not equipped to cope so act like the children they still mentally are.
Good to see common sense is starting to become common again.
Lots of talk with regard to the long awaited Cass Report. The only absolute deterrent to trans ideology/indoctrination is the REPEALING of the 2004 Gender Recognition Act. Following the reactions to the report from various media outputs I am yet to hear a mention of the 2004 GRA.
The Cass report has only been mentioned once in the New Zealand media. That article was however, just a media hit job designed to rubbish it.
Certainly nothing much has come out in the mainstream media in NZ, which is a shambles at the best of times.
If well over 10 professionals left the Tavistock for moral reasons, there was/is clearly an issue. One or two might be a personality clash but the number that left was clearly a shout "there is something very wrong here" and im someone that supports trans sexuals but not trans genders or self ID. Self ID is the most stupid thing in health care since labotomies nor do i think i child can understand the gravity of a sex change operation.
This is to me a brilliant piece of analysis. Straight down the line with a bit of humour and no nastiness. Long may it continue!
Thank you for reporting on this. Cheers
Unfortunately not. The activists will just ignore it and continue to push this on to children. Plus many will not have even bothered to read it as they think that they are right - ideology is more important than facts.
But authorities who didn't have evidence to fight them with before as it was never felt necessary now do so they can push these ideologists out if they refuse to listen. Most countries do have regulation and do enforce the laws they have and contrary to what some think, those are not on the side of activists. Sadly the US is always a bit behind in that respect so will have a bigger fight on its hands but society as a whole is how we change things and activists were always a minority.
@@tkps They never needed that evidence. They needed evidence the other way to ever let them do all this.
Well said, Tom. I was a miserable as an adolescent. I felt shy, fat and plain. I couldn't get a boyfriend. What happened? I grew up.
Don't hold your breathe on them admitting they screwed the pooch on a planetary scale.
It really is a cult. I was in a fandom with a lot of different people. The protagonist of the story is accepted as trans even though it never was a part of the story. I’ve seen people get death threats for saying it makes no sense John is a trans girl.
Wait. Could you let us know what story it was, just for context?
@@jonathananderson5990 It’s homestuck, I guarantee it. That fandom is infested with FREAKS.
I've got a 10 year old and 17 year old kid and the difference in the number of kids in their respective classes at school claiming to have gender or sexuality "issues" is unbelievable. 1 out of 32 kids in the 17 year olds class and 8 out of 29 in the 10 year olds.
Good thing their teachers are protecting them.
When those in power and the media go after the bodies of most innocent and vulnerable in society.
There is something very evil behind this.
Money and political distraction
Big 9harma.
this whole thing is just too horrible, I feel so sad for the children who have been through this :( I used to wonder about myself when I was the only girl in primary school who liked maths, but grew out of it, my heart goes out to children who have been let down by their government (allowing this), education (teaching gender ideology), medical services who have done this and parents who encouraged it. I also feel for the parents who were cancelled into silenced x I hope the people behind this are criminally charged and the families affected are compensated for this barbaric example of human stupidity x lets not do shit like this again
Well said, Tom.
A few generations of otherwise reasonable people have grown up with an exaggerated fear of being called a few nasty names (X-ist, Y-phobe, etc.), and too little will to defend themselves against (or just laugh off) bullshit accusations. But I think maybe this is changing. I even know some college kids who are sick of it.
How do we stop things like this from happening again? Stand up and say your peace, everyone, calmly and politely, but forcefully, about any and every issue. No more being intimidated into silence or faux agreement. We'll all be better off.
I am glad to hear that the pharmaceutical and surgical treatments for gender dysphoria in children and young adults have been halted for the time being, but this ideology isn't going to go away anytime soon. The proverbial cat has been let out of the bag, as it were, and putting it back in the bag will be very difficult. As someone who suffered from gender dysphoria in the early 1980s I was given counselling and shown a great deal of care so that I could learn to understand that these thoughts had manifested because of childhood trauma. I am so glad that this kind of thinking was how we dealt with such afflictions back then because as an adult I am proud of who I am and the traits and personality that I was born with. Being true to yourself is about accepting what is undeniably the truth and not being swayed by others to deny what the universe has given you.
I think we may see change. For decades we slowly and surely gave in to individual whims in the hope of pleasing everyone. But we all need to be told no and many in authority forgot that. It started with millenials now entrenched in many areas but the majority always disagreed with far left ideology. If people speak up refusing to accept their views are not valid, as the majority we'll see that change. I've already noticed most in the youngest generation old enough to have opinions on this stuff have almost violently moved in the opposite direction. Millenials are the main offenders but there's enough of the rest of us to shut down those who won't listen. Facts are on our side.
But esteemed credentialed experts signed off on this at every level "up and down the chain"...
at last, sanity prevails, I haven't said a lot about this subject but it's always been clear to me that physically changing the body because of a sociological or psychological condition is a confusion of levels and will not help or fix anything. Thank you Hilary Cass for your work on this and lets have an end to destroying children with these brutal interventions...
Thank you for this. Your channel just gets stronger.
A lot of the left fell for this. As a classic Marxist I didn't and am appalled by what happened to a chunk of the left. I remain Marxist and pro-gay rights but hold much of the left, like ISO in NZ, in total contempt. They are bourgeois toerags.
How can you possibly still be a Marxist? That ideology and its obsession with “power” and “oppression” is what belies all the whack identity politics we’re dealing with these days. Not to mention the death toll from communism which stands at over 100 million deaths in the last century alone. Wake up.
Marxism killed 100 million in the last century. And yes, communism was “real” marxism. You may want to think again.
No longer consider myself left because of what the left has largely become. So many of the people who mock religious people as idiots and bigots thought it was good to sterilize kids and tell people to just 'shut up and take the jab'. Bunch of wretched spoilt creeps.
I think you are confusing Marxism with stalinism which was gravedigger of revolution!
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@@philipferguson8570was that the Stalinism in China or Cambodia?
No cult is characterised by logic and critical thinking. Unwelcomed facts and data are of no importance. It’s only the feelings they engender that matter.
people need to go to jail for this .. .a LOT of people. Otherwise not a single lesson will be learned and the zealots on the far-left of the gender debate will just find another way to bully people into letting them do what they want with young children.
Spread this far and wide. They may not accept it in Canadastan.
They are already rubbishing the report and refusing to believe it.
Woke epidemic
I wonder what dentists said to my parents to get them to give me fluoride which then destroyed my teeth
Unfortunately the zealots are too stupid to face the reality of the situation.
So well said
May there be an end to this insanity!!!
It’s all part of diverting our attentions to a bigger picture. But what is it? Started with LGBTQ, then Covid and vaccines, then the Ukraine, then climate and taxation to using anything related to fossil fuels.
Listen up Australia
It's going to need more than the Cass Review.
Gender ideology has been deeply embedded in our institutions. People have been kept quiet for fear of losing their livlihoods. Speaking up is met with a barrage of abuse. We have a long way to go.
Such a freaky freaky horrific world ! How was it ever allowed ?
If you need medicine and surgery just to be yourself there's something wrong with your sense of self.
Nope...They will just lick their wounds and regroup
I thought it was our societie's job to protect the vulnerable children, meanwhile grooming gangs, covid, and now this.
So frustrating that we even had to go through this
The people that are pushing this onto children need their licenses revoked, never allowed to provide any psychological services too anyone. They ought to do 2 years in prison.
Excellent and important video. Thank you!
How come the true nature of this madness seems clear to some of us, while others seem completely blind to it?
Thanks for the great analysis of the madness we've been living in regarding the invented, incoherent 'trans' nonsense.
Facts do not affect ideology. There was already lots of facts refuting their ideas.
like which facts?
@@funnymark5494Facts like the incontrovertible biological truism of gender identity.
Excellent. Thank you.
Literally nobody I know is talking about this- and I work in child safeguarding
Talking about what? The Cass review, or the horrific and dangerous ideology it's comprehensively put the lie to?
This may not be the end. It may not be the beginning of the end but it may be the end of the beginning.
The fact that medical ‘professionals’ go along with this garbage, says a lot about intelligence and critical thinking. Some good doctors out there but most, are a a disgrace.
This cult, and a cult it is, should not go without punishment. Leave the kids alone, let them decide as they grow and mature and their brains develope. Council them as they grow by all means, but dont butcher them
I'm glad the Trans Agenda has been exposed. As a former lesbian who had mild gender dysphoria, I would have been top of the list for gender reassignment.
I don't know a lot about this topic but i have seen people talking about the interview of Dr. Cass's team by The Kite Trust. it seems like they are walking back a lot of their recommendations.
"The Cass Review Report does not conclude that puberty suppressing hormones are an unsafe treatment"
"the most common age that trans young people were being initially prescribed puberty suppressing hormones was 15. Dr. Cass’s view is that this is too late to have the intended benefits of supressing the effects of puberty"
"The Cass Review Report recommends that a different approach is needed, with puberty suppressing hormones and gender affirming hormones being available to young people at different ages and developmental stages alongside a wider range of gender affirming healthcare based on individual need. "
They won't give up without a fight. Heck, they'll go outright nuclear over this. 😒
I looked at doctors that done sex changes as Doctor Frankenstein, they never knew what the outcome would be, and from different things I seen if someone wants to do a sex change, we need to have age limits, and mental evaluations before anything can be started, just because you can do something doesn't mean it should be done, sometimes there's more harm done than good
Sadly, i don't think it's the end. It's amazing how the trans ideologues spin this to their benefit
There are patently absurd claims in the Cass review, which were used to push a narrative.
For example, a major criticism in the Cass review is that current research for trans people is not "double-blind," and therefore insubstantial.
This is despite the fact that Cass has corroborated the consensus on this;
"double-blind studies have no place in trans healthcare." (Paraphrasing)
Not only are they unethical, they're not feasible.
This isn't a unique case either, there are plenty of research fields where double-blind studies are not an option. In addition to this, the review also cites known debunked theories, like "social contagion."
The review was used to deny trans kids puberty blockers, but cis children can still access them, so it's not like they think the drug is the problem. It seems fairly clear to me that they think trans kids are the problem. Still not dubious? Let's move on to Cass herself.
She is not qualified; she's not a specialist in the field. Saying a pediatrician is necessarily informed on gender care is like saying a dentist must be an oral surgeon. There's some overlap if you're working with heuristics, but that's it.
That's a generous analogy, though. Dentists have more in common with oral surgeons than pediatricians do with gender care specialists.
Cass' intentions are questionable and confusing, if not malicious. This is plainly shown in her inconsistent positions on double-blind studies for trans research, among other things.
As for the review itself, there are numerous people with more experience (authority) and with higher quality research. People and organizations with research that wasn't independently funded by a government agency. In this context, the same government agency which directly supported the outcome that the Cass review came to.
Confirmation bias and conflicts of interest were vital components of this "review."
There are claims in it that are known to be nonsense from yesteryear. There are blatant contradictions which were left in the final product.
Why are those things in it? Because it ultimately didn't matter. There will be enough individuals who will say "This medical agency said trans people bad, I WIN!!" Exactly as we're seeing in the comments.
No matter how awful the science is, enough people will agree with the conclusion it draws.
It doesn't matter that the review is factually inaccurate, it did what it was supposed to.
Applying this to some more general stuff, everyone should understand that reviews are not supposed to be the foundation for your beliefs in basically any conversation about research.
You're supposed to read the studies they cite, and then supplement with the review itself, because a review is almost always a tertiary source. If you do not understand the studies, the review is just spoon-feeding you.
If anyone bothered to look, the Cass review cites anti-gay rhetoric from the 60s within its' sources.
Citing 65+ year old research is dubious in the first place, but specifically anti-gay rhetoric? When accounting for all of this, there isn't a defensible position for the validity of this review, prejudice is quite literally in the foundation.
It seems to me that when anyone takes the Cass Review at face value, it's because it confirms what they wanted to believe, or because they read the headlines instead of the content.
(If that's the case just say so man, it's 300+ pages of schlock. There's no shame in skipping out, just stop pretending to have an informed opinion on the topic.)
Let's take inventory.
The Cass review:
- Stands firmly opposed to scientific consensus
- uses fearmongering tactics
- uses outdated and debunked anti-trans theories
- was funded by a government agency that wants trans people gone
- Single-handedly provided the justification for the puberty-blocker ban, with next to no external consultation, and an uproar of substantiated opposition, which went ignored.
- Banned puberty blockers only for trans kids.
It does not get more clear cut than that, this is an authoritarian decree, not scientific research.
Cass herself is starting to look adjacent to Andrew Wakefield, and that's scary. Everyone should be apprehensive of that. If anyone can show me how the Cass review is actually a good faith review of science thus far, go ahead. I think it's pretty obvious that it isn't though. Just another tool for hasty control.
It's almost like a virgin sacrifice of yore. How many will delete?
Apparently the SNP doesn’t think so!
I'm not sure Angelina Jolie should have been included in that short clip of celebrities who have endorsed the gender cult. Her daughter Shilo was allowed to go through puberty with no interference from quacks in the gender trade. She turned out just fine.
Need to jail these doctors
It must be said that puberty blockers have been used for a long time to treat precious puberty - or puberty that starts way too soon (like the age of six).
Now we just need many, many other studies like this to be published.
All the replies are just "Waah she's a liar!" "Well what if the kids kill themselves!?" etc. It's impossible to reason anymore.
Epic 🎉
Even after this, this isn't going to go away very easily. It really was a pandora's box that will never be closed again.