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NHS announce independent review of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones!

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rogdmum · 31/01/2020 21:22

www.england.nhs.uk/2020/01/update-on-gender-identity-development-service-for-children-and-young-people/

Am pleased. Smile

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rogdmum · 31/01/2020 22:37

Dr Cass is in Twitter. I’ve just tweeted to ask if she will have any detransitioners or parents on her working group.

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CaptainKirksSpikeyGhost · 31/01/2020 22:32

Are we talking "independent" like when the Catholic church or the BBC run investigations into their own behaviour, or really independent, in which case the results will be supressed?

AutumnRose1 · 31/01/2020 22:21

Michelle 😂😂

ChattyLion · 31/01/2020 22:20

Anything that allows more objective, evidence-based questions to be asked in public has to be a good thing, surely?

PermanentTemporary · 31/01/2020 22:19

[shrug] Theres not much to be done. If an independent review of the process com eludes that there really is a case for this extraordinary 'treatment' to go ahead- well, I must concur. I'm not an endocrinologist and I believe in medical science as a general rule.

Al1Langdownthecleghole · 31/01/2020 22:14

I started replying with a smilie emoji permanentemporary. But I've just remembered that NICE have a history of recommending local decision making, plus specialist referral (in this situation I guess only to the Tavi) where there is a lack of conclusive evidence.

Bugger.

Languishingfemale · 31/01/2020 22:12

Let's hope that this is really independent and not packed to the rafters with those groups and individuals currently removing safeguarding and grooming children into believing that they've got the wrong body.

PermanentTemporary · 31/01/2020 21:51

I think this is good news too. I'm posting to say that I commut to supporting this process and if it says that chemotherapy to distort normal development in distressed adolescents is in fact truly evidence based, I will shut up about this issue. And that's quite a commitment from my current position.

Cheesespreading · 31/01/2020 21:48

Hopefully some good comes of it and they stop putting children on it when they don’t know what they are getting themselves into.

NotBadConsidering · 31/01/2020 21:47

I think this is great news.

AnyOldSpartabix · 31/01/2020 21:28

From Wikipedia, Hilary Cass left Great Ormond Street hospital after raising concerns over patient safety.

Sounds like she might be properly independent. My first thought was suspicion, which I hope turns out to be wholly misplaced.

Michelleoftheresistance · 31/01/2020 21:27

Quite. Will it be independent or will it identify as independent?

Al1Langdownthecleghole · 31/01/2020 21:26

Thanks, will watch with interest.

Hopefully it will be genuinely independent and will hear evidence from women and detransitioners, not just Mermaids & stonewall.

StealthPolarBear · 31/01/2020 21:24

It looks routine, but still a good thing

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rogdmum · 31/01/2020 21:23

Article on Hilary Cass:

www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jun/26/great-ormond-street-hospital-gagging-doctor-cass

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