Tom Clownfish elected as British Medical Association chair

That testimony is pretty damning. Sounds as though the fragrant Dr is more concerned with furthering her lucrative career as an “ expert witness” than undertaking any clinical or research work with unhappy young people.

So someone with zero medical knowledge and zero knowledge of being a woman, in other words.

Wow, who do I trust, Not-a-Doctor Ruth Pearce, or Dr Hilary Cass? Gosh, that's a tough one.

A male TRA who is best mates with Sally Hines.

Ah yes. WPATH, tell me, are they a completely neutral organisation or do they have an agenda? And following up patients for two years, goodness, that shows almost caring dedication to the young people whose bodies have been subjected to chemical interference on a scale only usually associated with children with life threatening illness.

i honestly believe in the not too distant future we’re going to have a lot of young adults making claims against those who allowed them at an impressionable age to basically fuck up their bodies with blockers and breast binding and such like

young women missing smears because they are now ‘boys’

parents of these kids defend it to the hilt as let’s face it there’s no going back

its not like agreeing to let your child get their ear pierced or die their hair a ridiculous colour in the spirit of self expression

I think it was something like 70 members at the top of the BMA hierarchy who voted, no vote was given to the other ~190k members.

attempts to debate the bma cass review silliness have been stifled by the upper ranks.

I left the BMA prior to this whole debacle and won’t be joining again.

They recently emailed me a survey asking for my opinion of the BMA. “Embarassing and misogynistic” was my reply.

It’s not like Wes Streeting is going to say:

”Oh the [gasp!] British Medical Association has rejected the Cass Review? Are you sure? The actual BMA? Good Lord! What have I done?! How can I be at odds with such an esteemed organisation? If the BMA has rejected it then of course so must I and so must the rest of the NHS! Quickly! Man the phones! Call GIDS! Get Webberley on the line! Get puberty blockers dished out to anyone who wants them. Use Amazon to deliver them if you have to. There is no time to waste!”

Er, no.

Instead the BMA will be added to the list of organisations who were desperate to sterilise children.

So not a real doctor then. Got it.

Surely Clownmammal? Dolphins are not fish....

Totally. None of the foot stamping Bee is exhibiting makes an iota of difference. And, they still have to stay out of the ladies.

So well said.

It doesn’t matter what the BMA thinks of the Cass Review. They have little power for their primary job, negotiating pay for its members, let alone anything else, so their acceptance or non-acceptance of something that has happened and resulted in Wes Streeting implementing changes last year is completely irrelevant. All it demonstrates is if they’re batshit or not batshit.

Yes, one wonders what their motives could be.

I see we have another poster over interested in the sterilisation of children. They're increasingly rare round here but it's always (marginally) interesting to see that they use the same old tropes, discredited research and arguments to try to influence women out of safeguarding children.

Great thread title OP. 😂

"The actions of Wes Streeting in outright banning puberty blockers (against the recommendations of Cass, which recommended caution) are unconscionable."

So you condemn the Cass Report, except when it says something you can use.

Wes Streeting is not alone, the governments in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and more, have all decided to stop medical experiments being preformed on the children of their nations too.

Amazing the number of grown men who would like to have children sterilised, keep them with pre-pubescent genitals and mentally immature, but chronologically above the legal age of consent.

Article written by …a healthcare activist, punk musician, and feminist researcher, specialising in transgender studies and community development.

I didn’t bother reading beyond Dr Meredith McNamara’s contribution considering this article.

www.city-journal.org/article/the-deposition-of-meredithe-mcnamara

A doctor in sociology it appears. Specialising in transgender issues

I can think of one group of people who would be interested in that, and their collective name begins with P.

Who the fuck is Dr Ruth Pearce?

That was my thought, it's difficult to have sympathy for Dr's who are members if they're letting this sort thing happen. But it could be a situation where the members don't get to vote only the elite do and as we all know, this association is all captured at the top.

i wonder how many BMA members voted? On the other thread about the BMA several posters who were members said they had stopped engaging with the BMA because of the batshittery

QAOPspaceman

It is concerning to have someone who seems ideologically driven by issues such as this now in such a position of influence.

Knowing a GIDS clinician for whom the arrival of Dr Cass was akin to the arrival of the cavalry - someone at last taking the whistleblowers seriously about the extreme nature of what was happening there - I find the referral to ‘the bad old days’ when ‘PBs were being heavily gatekept’ really interesting. Reminiscent of the old Trans Health Manifesto of the Jess Bradley days (whatever did happen to Jess Bradley?) with the adult demands for ‘trans health care’ to become a self managed dispensary service for all ages for drugs and surgery with zero professional frameworks around it, in particular zero of those awkward paediatricians and child development experts around. I always assumed that even the writers of that manifesto would acknowledge that they were essentially having fun while high. But no, apparently that was a serious contribution to you Bee.

I took from reading the Cass report something unexpected and important for me as an HCP; that I should be constantly vigilant about what happens in a clinical service when it is overwhelmed with demand, and that simply attempting by any means necessary to meet that demand is a recipe for clinical disaster. The time to blow the whistle/hit the red button and stop attempting to run up a moving down escalator is probably always nearer than you think. In particular, the need to question why there is such a surge in demand and what is happening to increase it.

Did you take puberty blockers then @BeeSouriante ?