High Court says ban by government on PBs was legal

[Justme56]

www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/29/puberty-blockers-ban-tory-government-lawful-high-court-rules

On that redit thread they see cass or professor Appleby as experts

The full story on this bit of lawfare and the grifting can be found on the Labour Pains blog.

https://labourpainsblog.com/2024/07/23/jolyon-maugham-v-trump-putin-and-er-wes-streeting/

I don't know how much it has cost the taxpayer, but we know how much money GLP has raised so we can guess it has probably cost millions.

GLP has raised over 16 million quid since it started. Almost 500,000 of that on gender cases, but GLP has never won any of those cases.

Good news day what with Lizzy Pitt winning over Cambridge County Council

I think we screamed through that barrier some time ago. High time someone told him to wind his legal neck in, although he's currently off on 40 days in the Judean desert or something.

Legal expert Dr Michael Foran summarizes the implications of the judgement:

https://x.com/michaelpforan/status/1817882527190966295
This is a crushing defeat for TransActual and the Good Law Project.

The Court upholds the standard principles of judicial review that GLP should know - the role of the court is not to make these decisions itself but to assess the lawfulness of it.

The Court was clear that any attempt to smear the Cass Review was unfounded and the Secretary of State is perfectly entitled, not just to rely on it, but to treat it as the best available evidence.
Assertions as to a rise in suicide risk were dismissed as unfounded and the Court accepted that the Secretary of State was entitled to rely on the Cass review in making an emergency Order.
Finally it should be stressed that the court applied a heightened scrutiny here. It said that given what is at stake, it should be more searching in its assessment of the reasons for making the Order. It still found the decision to be lawful.

How much longer can the BBC maintain their fiction of rigorous impartiality on all matters?

That actually comes as no surprise. It all makes sense. (Well in the upside down world that we now live in)

I'll give them 0.1 of an additional cheer because someone at the BBC clearly noticed that they had gone a step too far... and reeled it in a bit.

Several people on X are pointing out that they had put in an appalling quote that went completely unchallenged. This quote has now been removed. Here's a link to Transgender Trend's tweet:

https://x.com/Transgendertrd/status/1817924923530064033?t=2EkafnXJJq1c5lajB1lorQ&s=19

Perhaps they are realising that their impartiality issue is a bit too obvious?! Obviously it's still there by omission. They have barely mentioned Cass in anything, let alone explored what it really is and why it's so important to focus on the evidence-based care that she is calling for.

For anyone not on X, here's the original BBC article with the quote included (penultimate paragraph):

https://archive.is/EqFpM

Very good work. Thank you.

Though I shouldn’t be, I’m actually quite shocked at that quote in the original BBC article.

Great news, and a great government response unequivocal from Wes Streeting. What a relief.

Actually the updated one is little better. I’ll complain (again).

Important Labour confirms ban on overseas prescriptions:

In support of the ban on overseas prescriptions – which was upheld by a high court judge today following a legal challenge – Ms Smyth said it would not be practical to expect UK pharmacists to police the issue, commenting: “It is simply not possible for pharmacists to check whether prescriptions issued from overseas registered prescribers have been issued in a similarly safe and effective way.
“We know that some overseas providers who advertise their services do not follow this approach.”

https://www.pharmacymagazine.co.uk/nhs-and-health-news/labour-simply-not-possible-for-pharmacists-to-police-puberty-blocker-prescriptions

Peter Tatchell's take. He's just going through the motions.

Honestly, does Peter even believe what Peter says?

Peter friend of paedophiles Tatchell? Surely we're all grateful for his knowledgeable contributions.

Tatchell’s arguments honestly come across as rehashes of things he’s read from randoms on Twitter 🤷‍♀️

I also wish interviewers knew more about the Cass Review and the subject in general and could address the nonsense in a more knowledgeable way.

Especially autistic children...

They claim to support trans children...funny way of doing it by experimenting on them with drugs known to have lifelong effects.

Peter Tatchell in favour of puberty blockers for children?

Goodness me.

Who didn't see that coming?

And they ban anyone who dissents from the trans ideological belief.