Dr H says most ‘trans’ kids don’t need intervention until quite late on if at all???

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Some interesting tweets from Dr Adrain (incidentally claiming, in the present tense, to work in family practice )

Apparently not following the mermaids party line at all.

Only one of ‘a wide range of kids’ he’s seen has needed to be referred for specialist assessment

It’s in response to this thread (though he’s quote-tweeted instead of replying)

mobile.twitter.com/giagia/status/1080845323294175234

Why would you take a child to see the GP for liking the 'wrong' dollies? No wonder the NHS is on its arse. If that's true of course.

Why would you take a child to see the GP for liking the 'wrong' dollies? hmm No wonder the NHS is on its arse. If that's true of course.

It's a big fat lie (I'm guessing that in his trainee role, he'll have had precisely zero such patients so far); however, as consultations are confidential, he knows it's a claim he can make which he cannot be made to evidence.

Why would you take a child to see the GP for liking the 'wrong' dollies?

Because you are a fictional parent who exists only in the minds of the entally unstable, I suspect.

However, if someone did take their child to the doctor for playing with the "wrong" toys, would they be more likely to be (a) a woke Notting Hill hipster, mad keen to have a trans child to virtue signal with (b) a violent bigot who wants aversion therapy to keep their child on the "straight and narrow" or (c) a normal person? (a) or (b) is a bit of a toss up, but (c)? I think not.

I suspect some of them are d) brainwashed by online "support" and told it's the only way to get a referral for GIDS.

I suppose these days a well-meaning teacher, fresh from their Allsorts/Mermaids PowerPoint session, might well recommend a parent take a non conforming kid to their GP for referral.

Which is why these ‘training’ sessions need to be carefully regulated, IMO.

My DD’s Macmillan nurse has been going into school to provide info and tailored professional support to my DD’s teachers/TAs/the head etc - I am always invited to attend (and the hospital psychologist is available to advise and support the school staff via telephone). I can envisage that a similar support system would be useful for those kids who actually have a gender dysphoria diagnosis?

But if Macmillan did blanket power point training re: kids cancers and cancer related illnesses, you’d probably end up with a bunch of well-meaning teachers thinking every bruised kid had Leukaemia!

I suspect some of them are d) brainwashed by online "support"

I may well be wrong, but I'd like to think that outside the narrow world of London's professional middle classes, such "online support" looks just weird and creepy. It's noticeable that the place they have achieved the greatest incursions has been into left-wing political parties, which are organisations in which the suspension of your critical faculties is pretty much a requirement for admission.

Any news of that Green Party investigation into the Challoners yet? No, I didn't think so.

I suppose these days a well-meaning teacher,

Schools are suckers for any old crap, sadly: note the way in which primary school head teachers fell hook, line and sinker for "Brain Gym".

I suppose these days a well-meaning teacher, fresh from their Allsorts/Mermaids PowerPoint session, might well recommend a parent take a non conforming kid to their GP for referral.

It may be that some parents were prompted to view their child differently following the ITV drama, 'Butterfly' (based on Susie Green / Mermaids' perspective)

A recent article in Community Care (Social Care publication) suggested that the drama would be a good training aid for Social Workers:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3448221-Recommendation-that-Butterfly-used-as-training-material-for-social-workers

It may be that some parents were prompted to view their child differently following the ITV drama, 'Butterfly

Yes, along with Jazz Jennings and a seemingly endless parade of puff ‘documentaries’ and magazine programme segments on ‘Trans kids’

reflect Not really. On groups like huge FB buy sell groups with very wide demographics, there are parents saying "my 6yo says he's really a girl" and others backing them up, from all walks of life and all corners of the country.

there are parents saying "my 6yo says he's really a girl" and others backing them up

That's really sad. My hope is obviously not fulfilled