Cass, Wales and tra extremists

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Just noticed and quickly read this article in the Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/26/wales-is-becoming-a-safe-haven-for-trans-extremists/

https://archive.ph/w9tX4 bypass paywall

I think a lot of the stupid policy making was motivated by nationalistic hubris - wanting to be seen as more progressive than its larger neighbour.

Of course, these policies are anything but progressive and they'll all pretend it was Westminster's fault in the end.

What are the comments like? I can't load them.

When I see "Wales is becoming a safe haven for trans extremists" it makes me think of the wistful name that I've heard Welsh nationalists use for England--"The lost lands". So, the lowlands have fallen to the enemy hordes. We'll retreat to our mountains and hold out as long as we can.

Worse, while NHS England has already made the landmark decision to stop the routine prescription of puberty blockers to children with gender dysphoria, and Scotland followed suit in the days following publication of the report, NHS Wales has not carried out a review of its own policies and care pathways. It is unthinkable that it should continue to prescribe or offer access to untested, irreversible drugs for the young and the vulnerable.

Jeez. Can the Welsh Government be forced to comply?

The use of the word "extremism" in that headline is very apt. Describes accurately how people have been intimidated and bullied into accepting lies - and lies that cause great harm to children and women.

There’s another thread on here about the position in Wales.

NHS Wales commissions children’s gender services from NHS England - which means the NHS England clinical decision also applies to children from Wales accessing that service.

Whoever wrote that article hasn’t looked into the position in Wales.

“In recent weeks there has been too much focus on changes to 20mph speed limits and cuts to the National Museum of Wales’s budget, instead of on this scandal. Why hasn’t Welsh media given more attention to the concerns for children’s safeguarding, voiced so loudly by many parents across Wales for so long? Teachers, parents and clinicians want to know now what will be done to rectify and bring the significant failings which have been identified to an end, once and for all.”

This quote from the two Welsh Conservative politicians’ article is laughable.

What Welsh media? The BBC’s approach to covering Wales is a minimal, superficial and trivial as they can get away with. Why doesn’t the Conservative UK Government do something about that? They are the party in charge of DCMS.

What used to be the Western Mail is owned by Reach media. The only independent coverage is Martin Shipton writing online for the nation Cymru website.

And as for Tory politicians complaining about the focus on 20mph, what hypocrisy - it’s the Tories who’ve been focusing all their energy on that as a main plank of their pre-election efforts to undermine Labour. That’s why the bbc have been covering that story.