Please or to access all these features

Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Guardian article: ‘I’ve had to become my own doctor’: trans young people on life after the Cass review

52 replies

RoyalCorgi · 15/08/2024 14:38

This is by Libby Brooks. I haven't read it but obviously it's going to be a balanced, reasoned look at the issues, giving full credit and recognition to Cass's credentials and impressive research.

Only kidding!

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/15/ive-had-to-become-my-own-doctor-trans-young-people-on-life-after-the-cass-review

‘I’ve had to become my own doctor’: trans young people on life after the Cass review

With puberty blockers now banned in much of the UK, those hoping for gender treatment say they have been forced into difficult decisions

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/15/ive-had-to-become-my-own-doctor-trans-young-people-on-life-after-the-cass-review

OP posts:
Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 15/08/2024 15:31

Couldn't agree more.

WallaceinAnderland · 15/08/2024 15:29

Hannah was three when she started telling her parents she was a girl, not a boy. Her mother, Sarah, said her daughter had worn skirts and dresses to nursery, and at the age of seven changed her name and pronouns after requesting this for about a year.

But I cannot stress enough that everyone who knows Hannah, including her GP, Camhs and social work, believe she needs puberty blockers and that the NHS should be providing this care.

All these professionals and the parents have failed this child by telling him from the age of three that he could become a girl. His whole life, he's known nothing else and now he has to go through male puberty. This makes me so cross. What did they think would happen when he grew up.