News commentary on the Cass Report

The Australian experts sound very smug about how much more evidence-based their "trans healthcare" is.

Obviously this must mean they have better information and higher quality research on puberty blockers, etc. than we Poms. Perhaps in the interests of "saving trans kid lives" or whatever, they ought to consider it their moral duty to share this superior information?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/20/doctor-hilary-cass-warned-of-threats-to-safety-after-vile-abuse-over-nhs-gender-services-review

"Referring to the online abuse she had received, she said: “There are some pretty vile emails coming in at the moment, most of which my team is protecting me from, so I’m not getting to see them.”
She added: “I’m not going on public transport at the moment, following security advice, which is inconvenient.”"

I hope the insurance gets them

Keep watching the medical insurance.

The Guardian Australia has an article, along the lines I predicted. TL-DR We do a really great holistic job, not like those stupid Pommies.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/20/england-nhs-dr-hilary-cass-review-transgender-healthcare-impact-australia

The Victorian government is “fiercely proud” of its transgender health clinics, the state’s health minister has said in response to findings from a long anticipated review of gender-affirming care for young people in England.

Australian experts, including clinicians, politicians and peak medical bodies, spoken to by Guardian Australia all said the trans and gender-diverse care provided by states and territories is substantially different from that in England, and is based on holistic, best-practice care with various levels of assessments.

Guardian Australia understands neither New South Wales or Victoria have plans to make changes to puberty blocker prescribing or accessibility as a result of the Cass review.

Article in The Critic addresses activist claims regarding the Cass Report.

https://thecritic.co.uk/correcting-casss-critics/

Good breakdown on Cass, MOU, UKCP, and conversion therapy by American psychotherapist (but based in the UK):

One of the men here says about the tra/liberal movement about gender that they have “Fallen into the trap of thinking all progressive movements are the same. All progress is good.” ( My paraphrase.)

Mary Harrington has a thought-provoking book on that topic and an interview with Triggernometry.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feminism-Against-Progress-Mary-Harrington/dp/1800752024

Matt D'Ancona knows the score, Helen Joyce did an event with him a few years ago in which one of the other contributers harangued her and said she should not have been invited.

From 44 mins

Your reminder that Eugenics was viewed as progressive at one point.

Spoiler: It wasn't. And lots of people were harmed. And thats why we now have medical ethics panels to consider human rights and poor practice.

They set out what happened so clearly and objectively, thank you for posting this. I wish politicians would listen to this ‘For Dummies’ explanation rather than think they know it all already, which they don’t. (Not even Rishi Sunak, let alone Kier Starmer.)

One of the men here says about the tra/liberal movement about gender that they have “Fallen into the trap of thinking all progressive movements are the same. All progress is good.” ( My paraphrase.)
This does seem to be what has happened.

This is well worth listening too. They explicitly talk about how the both sideism stuff is bollocks “toxicity is heavily slanted on one side”

This just came up on my YouTube feed. I don't usually listen to these guys but IIRC as New European journos, they're not the usual "urgh tainted by far-right cooties" sort that The Righteous like to dismiss without a second glance.

You know, I always slightly regretted not voting Labour when Ed Miliband was the leader. Now I don't.

I was surprised she said Ed Milliband, mostly because I had entirely forgotten about him.

A doctor who prescribed puberty blockers to children as young as 12

She didn't just prescribe puberty blockers to children, she prescribed testosterone to a 12-year-old girl.

’ll allow myself the luxury of two names. First Ed Miliband, who in November 2017 devoted his Reasons to be Cheerful podcast to trans issues. Not only did he scorn all opponents of self-ID as “bonkers” but he invited on Dr Helen Webberley, the child hormone-prescribing doctor who ran a private clinic with her husband (who has been struck off the medical register).
I wrote to Miliband privately, linking to articles explaining the effect of her drug regime. “Of course I don’t believe in sterilising children!” thundered this condescending know-all.

One day I shall tell my great grandchild the story of how a bacon sandwich sacrificed itself for a nation. 😆

humanists, blow-hard podcasters and “fearless” radio stars

Fits Adam Rutherford, Robin Ince, James O'Brien

Well we all know who this:
"airhead celebrities who shilled for Mermaids"
is.

Who are the blowhard podcasters?

This is from Janice Turner's Notebook column in the Times:

"Cass hypocrisy
The moment the Cass report was published the Overton window lurched: everything Tavistock whistleblowers and journalists had been ostracised for saying was suddenly mainstream.
It’s tempting to list the cowards, fools, liberal sheep, airhead celebrities who shilled for Mermaids; atheists, humanists, blow-hard podcasters and “fearless” radio stars, right-on male comics who relished the chance to scream at women and spineless Labour politicians, all now claiming that Cass is what they believed all along.
I’ll allow myself the luxury of two names. First Ed Miliband, who in November 2017 devoted his Reasons to be Cheerful podcast to trans issues. Not only did he scorn all opponents of self-ID as “bonkers” but he invited on Dr Helen Webberley, the child hormone-prescribing doctor who ran a private clinic with her husband (who has been struck off the medical register).
I wrote to Miliband privately, linking to articles explaining the effect of her drug regime. “Of course I don’t believe in sterilising children!” thundered this condescending know-all.
The second is Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green, desperate to deep-clean her reputation post-Cass. “I’ve always been deeply concerned,” she said last week, “about the internalised homophobia that is going on for young women that means they think they can’t be a dyke, and they’ve got to be a boy.”
I met Hunt for lunch in 2019 just as she was leaving Stonewall, where she was chief executive. Hunt is slippery smart. At the end, I implored her as a butch lesbian who loves men’s tailoring to make a speech saying that you can look how you like and still be a woman. “It would be so powerful,” I said.
But she never did: because it would have enraged the trans lobby on whose campaign funds she depended. Hunt is a Christian who must know the ninth commandment, so I hope she’s squared her duplicity with God."

Yes. “Unsavoury” is the word.

Yeah, it looks like IW will take any gig that's going.

Has IW ever been to Keighley? If you try to think of somewhere profoundly opposite to Brighton I'd say Keighley comes quite close.

Alan Davies keeps correcting Sandy Toksvig on QI for saying pregnant women as though she's super out of date 😂 and she has to just say 'yes thank you', he's properly on the wind up.

There you go. The credibility of the Keighley Cougars is now on the line.