Jo Bartosch captures the struggle ahead for completing the Cass Review (I regard the extended York review (for lack of access to data) as a delayed part of Cass).
And Cass has every reason to be concerned. Her detractors are not confined to the activists who are even now planning a demonstration against the implementation of her recommendations — the entire NHS is in effect enemy territory.
Today there is a legion of activists within the NHS; some organise internally within workplaces, whereas others like GLAAD are networked across the UK.
GLAAD describes itself as having “a national voice in LGBTQ+ health activism and education” and boasts of “working with leading figures such as the General Medical Council, British Medical Association, Royal Colleges and Parliament”.…Members of GLAAD have taken an active role in lobbying for the use of puberty blockers. Duncan McGregor, co-chair of GLADD wrote behalf of the organisation in 2021 to protest a high court ruling which found patients under sixteen were unable to consent to puberty blockers.
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… the report has also revealed how deeply entrenched trans ideology is within the NHS. When the University of York requested, on Cass’s behalf, data on the outcomes of 9,000 patients seen at gender clinics, all but one refused.
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The report documents the reasons given by the clinics which refused to share their data. These include apparent fears from the clinics that the “study may not be fully independent” which included the claim that the study “may suffer from interference by NHS England, the Cass review team and government ministers” whose interests “do not align” with theirs and those of the patients.
The clinics are also said to have complained that the “unintended outcome of the study is likely to be a high-profile national report that will be misinterpreted, misrepresented or actively used to harm patients”.
This is unsurprising. A quick glance at how these organisations describe themselves makes it clear they are staffed by activists with links to radical transgender organisations.
The Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health Network, where staff initially refused to share data with Cass, introduces Medical Doctor and Transgender Health Specialist Jon Arcelus (pronouns: he/him/his) with the dubious honour that he co-chaired of the Standards of Care version 8 (SOC-8) developed by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). These are the guidelines which included “eunuch” as a gender identity that even children may have. Arcelus’ biography on the site continues:
He works closely with trans organisations, including Mermaids, Gender Intelligence and Translearning partnership. He is also an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Transgender Health.
Similarly, the Indigo Centre, an adult gender service for Greater Manchester, is run in partnership with the LGBT Foundation and describes itself as staffed by a “team of trans, non-binary and LGBQ practitioners and allies”. This is in effect, the gift of taxpayer money to trans activists within the NHS who in turn, create more trans activists.
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-cass-review-is-not-the-end/
Years ago, I saw a piece in which a journalist described the Arts Council and similar as job creation schemes for the middle-class/chattering-classes. I've often thought that about the Stonewall youth ambassador training scheme and the NHS when it churns about particular classes of activists that tend to cluster round the same social status.