”The Review also clarified that puberty blockers aren’t actually ‘experimental’ and the NHS has not classed them as such since 2014, which bring into serious doubt why the web page was changed a couple of years back to make the statement that they were experimental. Will the NHS change that page now the cat is out of the bag?”
They haven’t been running it as an experiment, that is true. Without any back-up evidence from their own experiment, or change in more general evidence, they brought it in as a treatment. A man rose by any other name…
”It also highlights that there is a need for help for detransitioners, something trans people have been saying for years.”
Well that’s bollocks. According to most activists, there aren’t any detransitioners.
”The first is that Dr Cass is cisgender. No cisgender people are unbiased when it comes to trans lives, but they have excluded trans people from the decision making here,”
And yet almost all medical doctors who review evidence, in most areas of medicine are experts in that area and are not patients. Indeed much of the reason trans medicine has become so skewed is because patients are running the show, with what they want foremost, rather than based on carefully following the evidence available, which is completely inadequate. Dr Cass is an experienced expert in this kind of assessment. Steph however, is so filled with bias that it appears to make seeing reality and recognizing the genuine lack of bias impossible.
”Uninvolved is just another name for ignorant,”
Steph is becoming abusive and starting with the insults now. No surprises there.
”Because what trans young people really need is the encouragement of uninformed and untrained medical professionals to chip in with their own opinions on trans lives and existence.”
So trained medics from other areas of medicine must be excluded because they’re not believers. The fact that these are rational, educated people, who are likely to be expected to have some input, if the treatment of these young people is broadened out, rather than dealt with by super-specialized clinicians, who have been traveling down a tunnel (which excludes non-believers by default as they can see what’s happening and can’t live with it) is intolerable to those of the one-true-faith persuasion, as Steph so clearly is.
”There is one thing that the report makes very, very clear. And that is that trans lives and identities, especially for young people, must be pathologised and medicalised under the strictest of supervision. Having lost the power of continued pathologisation of adult trans identities, they turn their sights to the more vulnerable members of our community.”
Not a pathology, but requires extensive, extreme, damaging medical intervention. And yet that extensive, extreme, damaging medical intervention must be provided on demand, with no gatekeeping from the medics expected to put their careers on the line to provide it. Either it’s a medical condition which requires treatment (and diagnostic criteria and medical expertise) or it’s not, and no treatment is required or provided. Demanding one without the other: the illogic is off the charts.
Stepg certainly goes on a bit. Might come back to this later, but for now, I think that’s enough.