Javid compares fears over trans issues to fears of racism in Rotherham

That's a good intervention. Glad it's the top article (on the website version).

The parallel with Rotherham is powerful.

So so happy to read this. I think Sajid Javid actually gets it.

I think there is still a level of fear of the TRA response hence the quote from his ally.

It's still going to take a very long time to improve things on the ground but I just hope it really is the tide turning.

Do Labour have enough time to change their positron before the next election? I hope so.

It's interesting the last few statements by ministers /the pm have had less and less of the hysterical responses we're used to seeing. I think once an idea becomes within the realm of acceptable ideas to a person off the street who hasn't thought much about it, then it really takes off. Hence the tide feels like it's turning. Well done to the Tories for increasing sunshine and therefore removing that toxic element.

Absolutely.

@BigGreenOlives I wish I had a time machine, too.

‘Children are the front and validation for adults...’

I think this is the most significant motivation. For ‘transgender’ to be an innate characteristic rather than a psychological state (an identity that is formed over time and in response to conditions), there have to be ‘trans children’.

Just what is 'gender' hormone treatment (1st para)? Why can't they say sex? Even Jane Austen and the Brontes used that word seemingly without embarrassment.

There’s an English professor at Exeter (Andrew McRae) who is tweeting about this, and says, ‘Javid amplifies one of the interim report’s concerns, The Times splashes that on its front-page without proper consideration of the interim report (which it describes as an ‘interim review’), and doesn’t approach Cass for comment. Playing politics with young lives again, guys?’

Better than playing Dr Frankenstein with them.

What are people so worried about anyway? If the GIDS protocols are well-considered and removed from ideology, and there is firm evidence of benefit to giving 12 year olds puberty blockers and then cross-sex hormones because they are ‘trans’, the inquiry would only show that. Why does sunlight on this issue scare the hell out of them?

BigGreenOlives ❤

So pleased to read this this morning. Almost disconcerting to finally see the adults come back into the room. It seems both the Ministers for Health and Education are waking up to the disastrous consequences of unquestioning centering of gender ideology, especially for women and children.

Now if we could only turn back time & send our unhappy teens to the sort of therapy they needed in 2016,17,18,19,20,21.

I sincerely hope progress is made and other families don’t suffer the way ours has.

Of course they're protesting. Children are the front and validation for adults, the cash cow for the future and an opportunity for toxic adults to dominate, coerce, and bully. Plus all that £££ income from schools and every other organisation working with children who need who need their professional expertise 'corrected"

The usual suspects are tearing out their hair on Twitter.

I have to hand it to Javid, he has integrity. Did he authorise Cass? I doubt it was Hancock.

Thank you rogd for more information and clarifying.

It looks like many of the stated "benefits" could easily be under the risk/side effects side.

I'm glad Javid seems to be doing what he can to turn over every stone. It can't come too soon.

They didn’t send me that sheet and the PB consent form doesn’t have a list of benefits/risks, although the CSH ones do on the first page of the consent form

Well done, Sajid Javid.

@rogdmum is that that same sheet from the Biggs paper?

users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/Biggs_ExperimentPubertyBlockers.pdf

It's covered mostly on p4.

I don’t know how many years these consent forms were valid for, but here are the forms from 2020 for puberty blockers and cross sex hormones. I thought them interesting at the time as they specify that CSH patients will not be questioned on why they have decided to withdraw from treatment. I tried to find other examples of consent forms that specifically stated that as I was curious to see if this were a normal point for consent.

The story is the lead on the Times front page in the printed paper

Newspaper headlines: Tanks for Ukraine, and new Partygate fines www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-61197384

Good. He really appears to be grasping the full horror of the NHS experimenting on children due to a bloody ideology.

Seeking an answer to the question 'what is transgenderism' will do that.

Now he needs to stop it being taught in schools. Urgently.

While the trust accepts the need for changes, it insists that doctors already take children’s wider social and mental health issues into account. Javid is understood to be preparing legal changes that would give Cass access to an NHS database of children treated by the service to see how many later regretted taking puberty-blockers and less reversible cross-sex hormones.

Trans orgs should welcome this sort of scrutiny. They often state as fact how few children have regrets or go on to detransition but in reality lack the evidence for claiming that. If they are right then this will provide evidence for that claim.

As a previous poster said though I am a little confused by the sudden existence of such a database when previously the Tavi have claimed not to have a way of tracking children and young people who moved beyond the service.

This could end up being a massive piece of work to undertake trying to fill the gaps in the whole picture because surely it will involve tracking individuals down most of whom were never followed up on (Sinead Watson on Twitter has talked about this).

I'd like to quote part of a classic and (I hope) prescient Barracker post:

The landscape is changing. I can't say how long it will take, but people are starting to assert absolute boundaries and reject the legal and ethical principle that a person can change from male to female and vice versa. This will not reverse. It will grow, and it will reach an inevitable conclusion. The UK is looking very likely to be the fulcrum of change, and then the balance will shift back everywhere.

I hope this is true for the ethical clinical treatment of children and young people. I trust that alongside the provisions for an inquiry, Javid will also find appropriate resources to provide the necessary scale of CAMHS that children and young people need.

Maybe Blunt's fall last week has played a role too.

I was very confused for a while James Blunt? Emily Blunt? It made no sense in my head.

Thankfully it then dawned on me that it was ol' Crispin. I think I need to sleep. 😴

Wow I think Javid actually gets it.