Haven’t had time to read anything but the BBC article. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68770641 which leads on the UK news agenda grid on the BBC website; they are definitely not hiding it away.
And apart from quoting Cass on ‘toxicity’ of debate as though ‘debate’ has always been allowed, and as though that toxicity was an equal measure coming from concerned parents, women and detransitioned people and whistleblowIng health care professionals vs angry rape and death-threat-making, attempted career-ruining TRAs.. everything reported looks sensible by BBC, everything Cass is reported to be saying looks sensible.
The government response from Sunak is particularly pathetic because this child damage is entirely on their governmental watch, they have had over ten years’ warnings and fears expressed directly to them. They have done nothing to stop this. Previous Tory governments would have introduced self ID.
Remember the Cass report is not a government report- it was commissioned by the NHS. Left to itself nothing would have been done by these Tory governments including the present one, despite apparently knowing what a woman is. So yes they bloody well should be listening to Cass And yes, the reported Labour commitment in response, to follow Cass’s recommendations from Wes Streeting looks good.
I obviously need to read more to know if anything has been missed off in the BBC headlines- for example if Cass has mentioned toxic social media climate without mentioning professional, media and parliamentary climate being stacked against evidence based research and treatment, if so then she’s missed something important…but let’s see.
But all in all I feel emotional and so relieved. Thank you so much to Cass and her team. It has taken a medic to end this sort of a medical and social scandal.
Hopefully there’s no coming back from this for the professional experimentation on distressed children. I first wrote to my (Labour) MP about this over ten years ago and got an apparently open to discussion response. Then no action at all. For years. I lost sleep over this for years with two gender distressed young people in my circle.
Finally now everything we deduced on these boards- the lack of research, the lack of follow up, the lack of holistic psychological support for the kids in psychological distress, the misinformation, the treatment options skewed by aggressive advocacy from a male sexual rights and sexual access lobby with a whole lot to gain from child transition, all must now be coming to light- I’m guessing it’s all in there.
Obviously there should be a public inquiry for full sunlight and fresh air. And let’s see what the NHS, the trans lobby Stonewall, mermaids, all of them, have to say in response and what they will do.
Until that public inquiry happens, I am thinking of all the distressed children who may or may not have had any adult to speak for them and have been harmed immensely or just never received proper or timely support and who have continued unmet needs. I am thinking the terrified parents and carers trying to raise the alarm unheeded because their experience didn’t fit the political narrative.
And I am so grateful for the women on this board past and present, who contributed to raising the alarm in so many ways and who did not give up. Thank you. 