Article - In U.S. Gender Medicine, Ideology Eclipses Science. It Hurts Kids

I think the UK media's reporting of the Cass review has been perfectly fine tbh. Wirth remembering that the Guardian is frequently cited by activists as an example of transphobic media. I think it's come a long way since the article about Lauren Jeska in ?2007 (under Alan Rusbridger) which single handedly peaked quite a few by not mentioning the relevant fact of Lauren's sex.

Wow, thats strong stuff from NYT!
About flipping time and where is WAPO and all the other media who havent done their jobs, rather promoted this?
BBC Guardian Independent ABC etc all should be on their knees begging for forgiveness.

If we’re continuing our Purdue analogy it’s true that theres evidence of the Sackler family withdrawing approx $10b from the company and putting that money into Swiss bank accounts so there is a precedence.

I suspect they're coining it while they can. Having seen how slow and capricious the US court system can be they reasonably believe they'll either be safely dead or so elderly they'll just get a slap on the wrist.

Yes the fact that it’s now that Purdue is being sued under thousands of multiple litigation and it is only this year that SCOTUS ruled enabling the possibility of the Sacklers being personally sued. That gender affirming medical practitioners don’t see, and are not concerned by, the parallels is baffling!

I'm mystified as to why the US media has largely ignored the Cass Review (and various other reviews on puberty blockers carried out in other European countries in the last year)

I think it is like the article said, that there is no going back now, because it would be admitting they were wrong. This would mean there could be law suits against them. Now they may even have to establish the affirmation protocol even more firmly. There may even be all sorts of academic papers written soon to say Cass was wrong.

Yup, it's a sunk cost, and a big one.

We have noted many times that many parents who have transitioned their children find it impossible to accept that this may have been the wrong thing to do. Accepting that would mean accepting responsibility for their child’s ongoing issues.

I think this argument applies to many medical professionals too. In the US particularly, it comes with huge financial penalties. Doctors and professionals working in medical insurance simply can’t afford to acknowledge the flaws in “gender identity”. I think there is/will be some serious fight back there before, as a society, we can acknowledge the truth.

Link for the Genspect talk :

Absolutely DrBlackbird.

Watching Dopesick at the moment and the parallels are breathtaking. It's all so recent too!
This talk by an American MD at Genspect outlines this very well I think.
(Pretty sure I've posted this before on another thread- but worth re-doing).
There's not learning from history that is distant, but to not learn from something so recent is quite shocking to me.

Let's hope the very existence of Cass, and its evidence based conclusions will put the heebie-jeebies into US medical negligence insurers.

The report exists, it is accepted by the UK and other Governments, senior gender medicine practitioners in the US should be aware of it. (Not least the NYT is referencing it.) Unless there is clear alternative evidence that affirmation only is safe, they need to take it on board.

Already the gender-affirmation model is taught in leading medical schools, and all the major professional medical organizations in the United States have officially embraced it in their guidelines, a fact often cited by advocates as evidence of their validity.

Going back to this fact that all the major professional medical organisations have signed up to the gender affirmation model reminds me of the US opioid crisis.

Purdue Pharma and other pharmaceutical companies engaged in collaborative and highly successful efforts to have pain medication standards rewritten.

The result was such that medical practitioners felt compelled to prescribe according to those guidelines despite the (largely hidden) fact that an analgesic such as OxyContin was a highly addictive pain medication.

In 20 years time will we be looking at a similar medical scandal with once again medical practitioners and pharmaceutical companies having collaborated to disguise the reality of malpractice? With sadly similarly tragic outcomes?

@UtopiaPlanitia

The American organisations who disagree with the Cass findings have not produced any evidence to the same standard that refutes any of the Review’s findings.

This is true. When discussing this on Reddit others will often just post a list of the 30 or so bodies that immediately came out to criticise the report. Having read their responses, none challenge it on a factual basis, with many admitting to not having reviewed it at all.

Interesting to note just how influential Cass is. Not just in the England, but Ireland, Scotland and now elsewhere.

The more damaging thing TRAs did was to block independent research and silence concerned academics and medics.

The report might have taken three years, and is still subject to attack, but Cass’ work starting to look as if it could be the most important piece of medical research this decade.

FWR, and the pressure put on the last Government to reverse their stance on gender recognition. Sayid Javid recognising that proper policy had to be based on proper research. Then Cass the brave. Which gave us something that Governments annd health authorities are finding hard to ignore. Good to see cracks appearing even in the NYT, previously a complete bastion of gender woo.

The comments are interesting too, though I've only had time to read a few. If you click the OP's link to the article, then click the comments link, they open before the site log in pops up and you can read them (well that worked for me).

The author of the article is also engaging with the commenters.

What an amazing journalist. I'm amazed she wasn't fired

This is an excellent piece. One of the best layings out of the issue I've seen.
It is good to see how understanding has grown and, though we are still.in the midst of this mess, it gives me some hope.
Thanks for posting this.

Off to read the article now that I know it's by Pamela Paul. She's the lone voice at the NYT who's not a member of the Church of Trans. I wouldn't read any change of thinking in the US into her article. So far, she's a voice in the wilderness.

Eventually, people will have to join her because she's right on this, but they're putting up a giant fight. Just one example: I don't think I've seen one single mention of the Cass report in any general interest news sources. Probably they're hoping if they keep their eyes closed long enough, it'll vanish.