Thoughtful thread:
And all those castigating the UK Government for not immediately banning ‘trans conversion therapy’ should read the interim report from Dr Hilary Cass, the respected pediatrician currently leading a review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People in England, in which she describes the country’s leading gender identity service as having been left to operate beyond “normal quality controls”.
It is then that you might fully understand that concerns about unintended consequences don’t come from the mouths of religious zealots, transphobes or bigots, they come from respected clinicians who care passionately about young people & only have their wellbeing at heart.
And the pomposity & self-righteousness of individuals prepared to turn a blind eye to the fact that we're medicalising children, mainly young women, many of whom are autistic, emotionally troubled, & who may be struggling with their sexuality, without any real scrutiny, evidence or data collection, amounts to neglect on an abhorrent scale.
We only need look at the Ockenden Maternity Review to see lives can be destroyed when ideology takes over from good medical practice rooted in sound evidence & with real safeguards.
Then there's the final contradiction. If anyone can identify how they wish without medical gatekeeping or surgery, that a man can be a woman by simple declaration, then why are we pushing young people towards a lifetime of medical interventions just to be who they want to be?"
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