Fall out of CASS report

[Sparklybutold]

In light of the CASS report, there is still a long way to go. At least that's how it feels. I was bullied, harassed, discriminated against. I told my university there was a serious problem. I was ignored, shamed, and gaslit. By so called professionals. My qualification has been impacted. My physical health took a dive and there were times I thought I was losing my mind. I want to so desperately name and shame openly. I want to directly let the one person who instigated this know the damage they caused. Anyone else feel the same?

Insurers aren't remotely interested in ideology. They are coldly only interested in risk profiles.

This alone has implications.

Education, health and social care, the judiciary will all display the social psychology phenomenon of doubling down.

They may well succeed.

I'm very cynical and think it will get a lot worse, for women in particular, before it gets better. I see violence coming, sadly. I think the manly rage will be directed at random women too, like that pathetic Australian incel over the weekend. Women must be punished, and as the gang breaks up and back up from all their corporate and govt funded buddies withdraws, the fury will be unleashed on women. It will be all our fault for not doing what we were told.
I don't think we've even scraped the surface of these men's hatred for women.

It's not gullible at this point. It's doubling down rather than accept this whole thing is fucked up.

Never underestimate the lengths people will go to to avoid admitting perhaps they were wrong.

Many people have too much invested in this to back down easily.

In twenty years when the lawsuits start flooding in from adults who were transitioned as children who are suffering horribly as a result we'll see condemnation but enough time will have passed so those we should be pointing the finger at can say hey, it wasn't my fault

They might do.

But the insurance and cost of health care will increasingly become a political issue in its own right to be used by opposition. Perhaps nefarious opposition with a desire to remove rights.

Reality doesn't stop because of the downplaying. And they will be fighting an increasingly big set of building issues resulting from lack of diligence.

I have just noticed a fuck up in my previous post and I'm to late to edit

LIVES NOT LOVERS!!! FFS!😶

It's given credibility to 'Terfs'.

I've just been made aware of a Labour mp still dismissing women by saying that constituents contacted her saying theyve been vindicated by Cass. She's being critical here. Im furious

It's not about "we were right" it's about we were silenced. And we are still being silenced and batted away.

This is true.
We are seeing globally what appear to be massive attacks on women as a class.

The USA banning / heavily restricting abortion and now those same pressure groups starting to talk about banning birth control is terrifying, for example. It's just whispers right now but that's how the abortion bans started and how many of us were adamant that would never happen?

We are under attack and it is frustrating the number of women who can't see it.

I have made a formal complaint to staffs uni (sod it - I'm naming). Now I wait.

My DH took a while to understand it all as on the outside no one would have thought it was happening. He has now peaked. He is also slowly going through the CASS report.

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@DrJump 💐

The instigator at staffs uni has moved on. Has ramped up her activism with what I can see. And is practicing. She harmed so many people.

@IncompleteSenten @nauticant

I am now in contact with someone at staffs uni (who has been drafted in specifically to sort through the chaos left) and we have spoke about going to this persons MB. She has advised I don't as she is worried this person could be vindictive. Instead, she said she will do it. But I need to ensure this happens.

I worry about this too. So many inquiries with advisements, that never actually fruition into anything. Examples include - the childhood abuse enquiry, the police inquiry, covid enquiry, will this be any different?

Is it bringing in lots of money? Maybe I've just not encountered it but there doesn't seem to be much research in this area. The campus activities I've seen are largely just the LGBTQ+ networks and the likes, which are voluntary networks run by staff, or UCU/student unions which are separate entities.

I’m really sorry anyone is facing this at work or in rl

I’ve managed to keep it quite low key but have had a few heated discussions with close family

Most of it was just posters attacking on here but that’s small fry and easily moved on from

Yes, we've a long way to go. There will be some still putting the whole issue down to biased' right wing' politics and 'Tory culture wars', and assuming that when/if Labour gets elected they will be able to continue on as normal.

The next stage, should Labour be elected, will be to see how Starmer and Wes Streeting actively respond to the conclusions and findings in the Cass Review. Though, of course Starmer is still saying he wants to "modernise" the GRA making it easier, effectively, for people to Self ID - which in itself will simply create a continuity of culture in which confused and distressed young people will grow

The next thing that needs to be done is to very publicly de-construct the concept of the 'trans child'. Only when this is de-constructed will the public start to be able to see that that the whole 'trans identity' business is a construct.

Of course, there is going to have to be an eagle eyed over-sight of the new GIDS clinics that have already been set up in Liverpool and in London, and any in future, such as the proposed Bristol clinic.

We need to let people see that the ideology is a construct built to protect and build liberties for sexually abusive and deviant men's kinks and perversions. That link exists, not with most trans people, but with the men at the back, pushing this forward. The net was cast wide and the catch is simpky there to disguise the true motivation and intent. Who can see the Kracken through the huge shoal of sardines?

Jimmy Savill hid in plain sight. So did Gary Glitter and many others. This is just the same kind of man trying a different route and look how fucking far they've got.

In light of the CASS report, there is still a long way to go. At least that's how it feels. I was bullied, harassed, discriminated against. I told my university there was a serious problem. I was ignored, shamed, and gaslit. By so called professionals. My qualification has been impacted. My physical health took a dive and there were times I thought I was losing my mind. I want to so desperately name and shame openly. I want to directly let the one person who instigated this know the damage they caused. Anyone else feel the same?

I'm in the same boat but where I am they are pressing on regardless and it has become a battle over methodology.

I agree with Incompletesenten - there will be pushback.

I'm right there with you sparkly
I remember your posts from early on in the midst of what you were going through, and could relate, though from a less extreme experience than yours.
You're feelings about it all now, at this stage, are totally warranted.

Agree with Beetle's comment.

I read the Cass Review report as a political document, with Cass knowing she was operating within narrow constraints. It would have been so easy for her to have said something frank which could have led to her being denounced and the report discredited.

I think the report is written to deliver some fundamental messages:
(1) there is no evidence base;
(2) we need a comprehensive overhaul of child and adolescent services; and
(3) but (2) requires the development of an sound evidence base.

I think she knows that much of what is recommended in the report won't be acted on, but the need for a sound evidence base will be undeniable and it's essential for that to survive the cull.

Reputational damage and academia to make you smile -

anyone remember Hugh Trevor Roper and the Hitler Diaries? Hugh smelt the diaries and on that basis, said they were real. Turned out, they were fake.

They don't seem to have learned the lessons do they?

This is much more serious, but being in a University doesn't prevent you from being completely bonkers, if you add in aggression and a strong communist ideology, there's your cancel culture writ large.

Sideways

I feel it is, perhaps not as much as other areas, but academics are publishing "queer" shit all over the shop.

I've been looking at educational institutions in particular. Those that train teachers.

I've also seen a few teachers re entering academia, jumping on the Edi inclusion bandwagon, with lgbtq as the primary driver.

Maybe it's because I'm looking for it?

In the last few years send inclusion stuff goes hand in hand with lgbtq

Eg how Shereen Benjamin, and eyfs lead lecturer was basically demoted in favour of the LGBT inclusive ones.