A hot take on the Cass report courtesy of Freddie McConnell

[GenderBlender]

Not quite sure what to make of this one. Freddie welcomes the report and totally agreed with it apparently, but also thinks it has the fingerprints of transphobia on it. Seems vexed that Cass has not unambiguously said that trans kids exist, and that the neurodiversity and mental health challenges are in addition to a teams identity (no explanation given as to why they are so often co morbid).

Seems to be going with the, it's all about waiting lists line that mermaids at al have been spouting.

Totally doesn't get the concept of a systematic review, says lots of research not included, that will be because it was reviewed and found to be shite so not included.

"Cass bemoans the lack of a peer-reviewed evidence base for trans healthcare. Right there with you, Doc (although there is plenty of research you decided to exclude)".

No comment made on the withholding of data by the majority of gender clinics making generating this evidence base impossible.

No comment made on why girls are now presenting much more frequently.

"If the Cass review was held under a black light, we would see the fingerprints of anti-trans ideology. I don’t believe Cass shares this way of thinking, I think she believes in evidence-based healthcare and that trans children exist. However, allowing her review to be so heavily influenced by bias is a critical failure that is hers to own."

So, the battle front is drawn, it isn't actually about gender services, we all totally agree on that apparently. This is about whether we all agree that there is such a thing as trans kids.

I think this is an unwinnable argument, like arguing whether god exists. In my view, from a medical stand point, the starting position has to be that the goal of any treatment for gender confused kids is to help them be more comfortable and live with the body they have. Only when compressive attempts at this have failed, should medical transition even be considered. I don't think this proves that trans kids exist either way, but I think perhaps for a very small number of kids this is the most effective way of relieving their distress.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/11/hilary-cass-trans-children-review

I think this is because the current direction of Genderism is that Gender is nothing to do with ones biology, it's whether or not one feels ones personality and self image fits into whatever one assciates with the social role of "man" or "woman" (really it's where one fits within ones own prejudices about how men and women exist but that's a different post)

From that perspective, it doesn't matter that giving birth is "the most Female thing you can do" because they don't see that biology as connecting to Woman at all. Freddie probably sees these pregnancies as a great victory "proving" that giving birth isn't something only women do because Hey, Freddie's not a woman, right? Take that TERFs!

The fact that Freddie and Co are operating with an entirely different (and IMO flawed and unnecessarily limiting) concept of "woman" than their so-called TERFs and therefore have proved absolutely nothing isn't in their worldview, because if they understood that they'd not have had to change their "gender" to be "themselves" in the first place.