#fuck the Cass review

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

Guys, if you can, spare a thought for Scotland tonight because we are supremely fucked.

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

The “brains mature at 25” thing is a medical abstraction like 5 fruits and veg or 8 glass of water a day. It’s not a scientific or medical fact and should never be used to limit a legal adult’s rights and medical care.

The Cass review is bigoted, biased bullshit and NHS England should be ashamed of themselves.

[llyfrenfys]

*deep sigh* I was right. The existence of the Cass Review is being used to create Section 28-like effects on British education around trans people. It's uncanny. I have the open letter which I posted on here a while ago (life events have meant I'm unable to do anything more yet) but honestly, this is just blatant at this point.

I have memories of experiencing gender dysphoria before the age of 6. By the end of primary school I was experiencing dysphoria over puberty starting. Banning sex ed which includes mention of the existence of trans people is cruel. I wish I knew of the existence of trans people when I was a kid because that could have saved me a lot of pain and feeling 'incorrect'. Worse is not banning the mention of trans people but mentioning that we're 'contested'. How is that any different to 20th Century homophobia where gay people were painted as something you shouldn't talk about or as something society 'contested' (to put it mildly).

This is also a blatant culture war policy because Sex Ed doesn't typically begin until Year 6 (ages 10-11) anyway. The primary purpose of this guidance has little to do with schools and plenty to do with putting out an anti-trans narrative which in turn affects how easily trans children and trans adults can live our lives. It's unlikely the next government will remove anti-trans policies either- or if they do, repeals will likely only be partial.

[neighbourhoodtwo]

the way the cass review keeps recommending assessments for autism along the process of getting gender affirming care and wants people to wait till theyre 25 to medically transition and argues that puberty blockers don't allow "time to think" because the majority of people on them later go onto hrt is frankly disgusting. like "no normal person if given the choice would ever choose to transition so these people are clearly all retarded neurodivergent or too young or affected in some unspecified way by puberty blockers therefore we should deny them bodily autonomy."

[just-in-cays]

"The Review also uses misleading, subjective terminology and misuses technical language regarding evidence quality. In any other field of medicine, this practice would be deemed unacceptable and harmful to patients."

Yet another report found that the Cass Review was dangerously flawed. The Integrity Project at Yale concluded the review "obscures key findings, misrepresents its own data, and is rife with misapplications of the scientific method."

From the new report: "The Review also subverts widely accepted processes for development of clinical recommendations and repeats spurious, debunked claims about transgender identity and gender dysphoria. These errors conflict with well-established norms of clinical research and evidence-based healthcare. Further, these errors raise serious concern about the scientific integrity of critical elements of the report’s process and recommendations."

Read the full report here: https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/report-addresses-key-issues-legal-battles-over-gender-affirming-health-care

[puddlellama]

I'm so mad at this bullshit. how fucking dare they. soulless bureaucratic monsters. if i ever get my hands on that rat-faced fascist, he'll be fucking begging for death.

[themanfromeire]

This is really different from my usual posts, but I really don't care. I currently live in a region of the UK, and the NHS England review has a very bad implication for my future. I might head out early, if you catch my drift. When I go quiet for a while, you'll know why

[dullahandyke]

I try and keep my nose out of American politics bcos I don't know shit about shit but I did just want to shoutout a post abt project 25 that ended on the stinger 'they want me dead', which I couldn't help reading as 'they want me dead' in coy reference to American liberalism's apathy towards its country's homicidal foreign policy which was kind of beautiful in my eyes like wow I'm seeing these fucking takes in the wild not even satire. Taking a picture like I'm on a safari

[critdeeznuts]

i saw the tv glow was amazing. definitely not for everyone but it WAS for me.

the scene where owen puts their head through the tv set because of the finale is. just how i feel sometimes when i hear news after news after news of anti-trans shit. it can really feel hopeless

[somepoetwannabe]

TW: Transphobia, Forced outting, Abuse (Emotional and medical), Childhood trauma I am so sick of hearing transphobes talk about all these traumatised, detransitioning kids. What about me? What about my trauma? I have been told all my life I am not who I say I am. That I am confused and a liar. I have been forced to sit back and watch my body change in ways I can only hope are reversible. And ostracised from society as it happens. Where is the love for the 10-year-old who sobbed in his seat as his loved ones shouted at him for attempting to bind his chest? Where is the love for the 11-year-old who hugged his knees and cried as he had to explain to his teacher he hated being made to feel like a girl? Where is the love for the 12-year-old who wandered around depressed because he knew that nobody around him could be his friend and respect him for who he is? Where is the love for the 13-year-old that tore into his body because it was not his and he hated it for betraying him? Where is the love for the 14-year-old who does not know if his family will one day look upon his body in disgust? I have been hurt and harassed and abused because of who I am, or in the eyes of transphobes, who I think I am. All I have ever asked is for people to call me my name, and not call me a she – and somehow that has been deserving of the things I have endured. I feel really, really sorry for all the kids who were put on hormone blockers they regret taking – but what about me? What about my trauma? I will never look at my body with love, I will never get to in my youth. In case I “make the wrong decision.” All I want is to feel safe, loved and accepted. I do not get that. Because you do not care about my pain. You do not care about trans kids. You just care about protecting your own sense of reality, even if it is hurting me

[keelanrosa]

terfs when a study shows literally anything positive about trans people/transitioning: 'hm i think this requires some fact-checking. Were those researchers REALLY unbiased? Because if they were biased this doesn't count and if they weren't knowingly biased they probably were unconsciously biased, woke media affects so much these days. Have there been any other studies on this? Because if there haven't been this could be an outlier and if there have been and they all agree that's a bit odd, why aren't there any outliers, and if there have been and any disagree we really won't know the truth until we very thoroughly analyze them all, will we? Were there enough subjects for a good sample size? Did every single subject involved stay involved through the whole study because if they didn't we should be sure nothing shady was going on resulting in people dropping out. Are we 110% sure all the subjects were fully honest and at no point were embarrassed or afraid to admit they didn't love transitioning to the people in charge of their transition? Are we 110% sure none of the subjects were manipulated into thinking they were happy with their transition? In fact we should double-check what they think with their parents, because if the subjects and their parents disagree it's probably because they've been manipulated but their cis parents have not and are very unbiased. How many autistic subjects were there because if there weren't enough then this doesn't really study the overlap between autistic and trans and if there were too many then we just don't know enough about what causes that overlap to be sure this study really explains being trans and isn't just about being autistic. How many AFAB subjects were there because if there weren't enough this is just another example of prioritizing AMAB people and ignoring the different struggles of girls and women and if there were too many how do we know sexism didn't affect the results. Was the study double-blinded? We all know double-blinded is the most reliable so if this one wasn't that's a point against it even if the thesis literally physically could not be double-blinded. Look i'm not being transphobic, i want what's best for trans people! Really! But as a person who is not trans and therefore objective in a way they cannot possibly be, i just think we should only take into account Good Science here. You want to be following science and not being manipulated or experimented upon by something unscientific, right?'

terfs when they see a study of 45 subjects so old it predates modern criteria for gender dysphoria and basically uses 'idk her parents think she's too butch', run by a guy who practiced conversion therapy, 'confirmed' by a guy who treated the significant portion of subjects who didn't follow up as all desisting, definitely in the category of 'physically cannot double-blind this', completely contradicted by multiple other studies done on actual transgender subjects, but can be kinda cited as evidence against transitioning if you ignore everything else about it: 'oOOH SEE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TALKIN BOUT. SCIENCE. Just good ol' unbiased thorough analysis. I see absolutely no reason to dig any deeper on this and if you think it's wrong you're the one being unscientific. It's really a shame you've been so thoroughly brainwashed by the trans agenda and can't even accept science when you see it. Maybe now that someone has finally uncovered this long-lost study from 1985, we can make some actual progress on the whole trans problem.'

[spaceyqueer]

someone remind tomorrow to call my GIC because I am so close to having a breakdown I need to know how my information is being used

I can't get a GRC because I'm non-binary and that is not legally recognised in the UK, so I don't want my information as evidence I've detranisitioned. I haven't.

God I'm so stressed out right now the Cass Review has fucked things up so much for everyone including myself.

[troythecatfish]

[aregularhuman]

being trans is like *go about your day* *remember you’re trans* *have dysphoria cry* *go about your day now mad at nhs*

[theogony]

something very dehumanising about knowing your two options are both places that'll never allow you to live as your true self

[froggy-horror-picture-show]

i know i'm in like. the safest town with the safest doctors for it but like. i am turning 23 in may and i am also currently getting hormones through the nhs. and if i get them taken away i may smash something