News commentary on the Cass Report

I do like this:

Yet, this is not what people expected from devolution. It was supposed to be Scottish solutions to Scottish problems, not eccentric solutions to things most Scots never thought was a problem in the first place.

Deliciously acerbic. He clearly enjoyed writing so pithily and I enjoyed reading it - thanks Brendan!

From a Scottish angle, comment by Iain Macwhirter in the Times:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/05601821-d8ba-4e3b-a7f6-99b88adb7707?shareToken=1e8ab2a04c6aec3c1bc86732aa36e296

Whoops @LoobiJee - didn’t even notice what thread I was on!

Think of me as @R0wantrees, if R0 was really messy and prone to getting sidetracked 😬😆

Thanks @KellieJaysLapdog we might need to take this to a separate thread as this one is supposed to be about Cass news coverage. It’s ringing a bell that there have been previous discussions about this GP.

edited to add: in that Ch 5 programme Hall states “I’m not female”. Hall has given birth to three children. Hall is a liar. A person who is prepared to tell lies like that should not be working as a GP,

Having establish SH's own family, Sam Hall is, of course, one of authors of the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust Gender Inclusion Guidance. Along with Freddy McConnell. The one that erased words like motherhood and mother.

https://invivo.citeline.com/-/media/supporting-documents/gender-inclusive-language-in-perinatal-services.pdf?

A hospital has told staff to use terms like 'birthing parents' and 'human milk' rather than just referring to 'mothers' and 'breast milk' so transgender people are not offended.
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust unveiled a blizzard of 'gender inclusive' phrases in a drive to stamp out 'mainstream transphobia'.
The Trust is the first in the country to formally implement such a radical overhaul for its maternity services department - which will now be known as 'perinatal services'.
Other changes include replacing the use of the word 'woman' with the phrase 'woman or person', and the term 'father' with 'parent', 'co-parent' or 'second biological parent', depending on the circumstances.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9241217/Hospital-tells-midwives-use-terms-like-birthing-parents-human-milk.html

Hall has had three children all via C section and breastfed them, and spent 15 years as a consultant obstetric anaesthetist. Hall has suffered from repeated episodes of poor mental health since transitioning, which Hall blames on transphobia rather than the 12 or so years Hall has spent taking cross-sex hormones. Hall blames complaints when still a consultant on transphobia, and compares a child safeguarding alert whilst a GP to S28 homophobia against gay men.

Yes, 9.5/10 for Kemi there.

(I believe the real KJK did a response video to this BBC show, will try and find that too, although it might’ve been taken down via copyright claim…)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000pz3c/my-life-when-mum-becomes-dad

Thanks Kellie. Having read that blog, that prescription-pushing GP is on a personal evangelical mission. Complete absence of objectivity.

And another: https://www.gscene.com/news/opinion-sam-trans-man-on-the-road/

(pretty sure Dr Sam was on pro trans tv show aimed at kids, will try and find it again)

Dr Sam was up for an award last year

https://generalpracticeawards.com/judge/dr-sam-hall/

Here’s some backstory: https://managementinpractice.com/views/blogs/how-i-went-from-hospital-consultant-to-gp-my-trans-story/

And good people asking legitimate and reasonable questions were vilified and lost their careers.

And that would still be happening to this day without any pushback if it weren’t for Maya winning her appeal.

The article describes that GP as a transman.

“Hall, who transitioned as an adult having been married and had three children, is a revered figure in Brighton. Posters celebrating him as a “trailblazer” were seen around Brighton during last year’s Pride parade. He works closely with the local trans youth charity Allsorts, dubbed “the Mermaids of the south coast” — the trans charity that lobbied doctors at Gids and supports the use of puberty blockers — and is a prolific blogger who has talked openly about how his practice is guided by his beliefs.

“My own experience of the dire state of trans-affirming healthcare in the UK helped point me in a new direction — general practice,” he wrote in a blog in 2022. “I had learned about the right treatment for gender incongruence through my own pain and I wanted to help other individuals.”

In 2020 he launched the Trans Health Hub at WellBN, the GP practice where he works. Since then the service has grown from 35 patients to over a thousand. It is believed to have a waiting list of 8-12 weeks. This success has been driven by a network of charities.”

This article is almost spot on.

It neglects the role of Tory MPs who also jumped on the bandwagon, but otherwise it's spot on.

Institutions which should have been politically neutral and just followed evidence were not. And good people asking legitimate and reasonable questions were vilified and lost their careers.

Doctor exploits NHS loophole to prescribe hormones for children

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/992adfd9-476a-45fe-a63d-e2b43a676894?shareToken=cfccf3b5e8df35b9af264af2085bebc8

A senior NHS researcher at one trust told me the opposition to taking part in an uncontroversial methodology to inform better outcomes came not from the board but from some clinicians in their service, and this was unheard of in other parts of the NHS.

Just landed, as expected from Sonia Sodha

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/14/hilary-cass-review-gender-trans-young-people-children-nhs-evidence?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other

Another good piece from Helen Lewis in the Atlantic, highlighting the difference between the UK and the US
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/cass-report-youth-gender-medicine/678031/?gift=SKtFP-7gCBnFn1bNJdqPMuoc7s_VBhNwXt-eL8OdNXw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Gagging of the brave has let gender ideologues seize control

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/148061a7-bcea-46c7-84e6-be6ee29d7ce2?shareToken=a3619d120700948707daf29592646603

@RethinkingLife I read that last night and thought it was extremely pertinent to the whole situation.

I also feel I have been lucky to have been treated in a similar way to how she's described she should have been treated in the past.

But I was also lucky to read a particular book based on the human givens approach which is focussed on environmental factors and number of years ago.

There's another woman who's researching anxiety in teens at Oxford university. She also writes really well with great insight. I'll try to find her

You should be able to read that if you open the link on your phone and then immediately switch to airplane mode.

It’s behind a paywall but looks promising

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/13/belgium-netherlands-puberty-blocker-restrictions/