The Cass Report

[MarieDeGournay]

The Independent review of gender identity services for children and young people by Dr Hilary Cass has been released. I think this deserves a thread of its own here on Craicnet - 229 Irish children were referred to the Tavistock Clinic in London, where whistleblowers raised concerns about the use of puberty blockers and hormones, without proper controls or research on longterm effects.

Here is something I posted earlier on the FWR board; I was impressed by the RTE report, much more thorough and thoughtful than a lot of other ones.

Sky News 1 o'clock - Cass report 'welcomed' by.. Mermaids and Stonewall!
Interpreted criticism of care for 'trans' children as that there wasn't enough of it/wasn't prompt enough/wasn't respectful enough, not that it was poorly researched and based on flimsy evidence.

RTE TV[Irish state broadcaster] New 1 o'clock - their London correspondent John Kilraine focused on the report's criticism of the use of puberty blockers and hormones for young people, the lack of evidence re long-term effects, and the failure to consider other issues such as autism, mental health issues etc.
I'll see if I can get a link to that segment later.

Did they read the same report?😠

The Irish Examiner are absolutely disgraceful. They are so biased & extremely left wing. They are getting worse as the elections are approaching. I saw an article a few days ago & they are still blaming the "far right" for all the countries woes. They are preaching to the wrong choir now
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41396350.html

I was fascinated by the idea of any Irish newspaper, let alone the Examiner, being 'extremely left wing'! So I read the article, it looks pretty sensible, it's by a well-informed informed and knowledgeable author, and actually gives a definition of 'far right' rather than just using it as a random label.

It would have been better had the writer given sources for the survey which found that amongst other shocking stats, '94% of politicians and 72% of political staff had experienced threats, harassment or violence.'
However, anyone with even a passing acquaintance with social media would find those stats as believable as they are shocking.

There's no denying the existence of groups with 'Ireland for the Irish' and 'Irish Lives Matter' banners and countless tricolours [but famously none of them could reply to a question as Gaeilge from a gaeilgeóir who happens to be Black at an anti-immigration rally] and cans full of petrol ready to torch anything that might,just might, be used to house people they don't like. Is that far right extremism? No? Something else?
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

I also thought the particular article you linked was a good and informative one@VoteNONO.

I can't access the Sam Boland one unfortunately.