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staringatclouds<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Petition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Petition</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a></p><p> 14,005 signatures so far</p><p>The Government has responded by saying the Cass review is the best thing since sliced bread despite every other country that's looked at it saying it is deeply flawed</p><p>Please keep signing, let's force them to debate this</p><p>Boosts, posts on other social media sites, even emails to friends are most appreciated</p><p>Children are hurting because of this</p><p>But the Gov't is set on opposing any independent body looking at it</p><p><a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700217" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petition.parliament.uk/petitio</span><span class="invisible">ns/700217</span></a></p>
Bin Chicken 🗑𓅠<p>Puberty blockers and treatments for trans youth under review<br><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/use-of-puberty-blockers-and-trans-treatment-for-children-under-review-20250131-p5l8oi.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smh.com.au/politics/federal/us</span><span class="invisible">e-of-puberty-blockers-and-trans-treatment-for-children-under-review-20250131-p5l8oi.html</span></a></p><p>Federal Health Minister, Mark Butler, has stepped into the fray after the RWNJ state Health Minister for Queensland made an absolutely boneheaded decision earlier this week. The state government of Queensland is putting thousands of children's lives at risk by pausing the prescription of gender transition drugs, including puberty blockers, for young people at a time in their life when this medical care is essential and potentially life-saving.</p><p>I think it's fair to say that Queensland is attempting a "Thin end of the wedge" series of changes — changes that could be made progressively worse in scope and become permanent — which would have disastrous consequences for the wellbeing of trans people in Queensland.</p><p>The article notes that the Cass Review in the UK was not based on well-established science or healthcare, and was widely criticised by health experts and, as you'd expect, people with lived experience of being Trans. We should not let those mistakes in the UK be repeated here in Australia.</p><p>I'm hoping that the federal health minister does not cave to RWNJs in Queensland or noisy transphobes in the right-wing media. This is an opportunity for the federal government to shore-up support for trans people, and establish federal laws that supersede regressive decisions in some states. </p><p>We should not stand for Peter Dutton to use transphobia as a weapon, a political football, or a disingenuous "just asking questions" topic for debate in the upcoming federal election.</p><p><a href="https://rants.au/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://rants.au/tags/QldPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QldPol</span></a> <a href="https://rants.au/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://rants.au/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://rants.au/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a></p>
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p>“The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a>’s departure from the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/evidentiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evidentiary</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/procedural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>procedural</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>standards</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/medical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medical</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policy</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/practice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>practice</span></a> can be understood best in the context of the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/leveraging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leveraging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/gendernorms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gendernorms</span></a>.</p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>"Cass Review: Too Transphobic For America" is a helluva accolade...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a></p>
JuneSim63<p>Good thread on Bluesky from the Good Law Project's Jolyon Maugham summarising the main points of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine's critical report on the Cass Review.</p><p>Worth a read.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jolyonmaugham.bsky.social/post/3lg6jktutak27" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/jolyonmaugham</span><span class="invisible">.bsky.social/post/3lg6jktutak27</span></a></p>
Christie Elan-Cane<p>To the surprise of no one, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> government rejects call for independent review of the deeply flawed <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a> which was conducted without <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> engagement and widely discredited by healthcare experts around the world.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/15/government-rejects-call-for-independent-review-of-cass-review/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thepinknews.com/2025/01/15/gov</span><span class="invisible">ernment-rejects-call-for-independent-review-of-cass-review/</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>[thread] Kemi Badenoch<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemi_Badenoch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemi_Bad</span><span class="invisible">enoch</span></a></p><p>* British politician<br>* Leader of Opposition, Leader of the Conservative Party Nov 2024+<br>* prev. served in Cabinet under Liz Truss &amp; Rishi Sunak 2022-2024<br>* right of the Conservative Party: both social conservative &amp;"anti-woke" 🤨<br>* homophobic; transphobic</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservatism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KemiBadenoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KemiBadenoch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antiLGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiLGBT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homophobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgenocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/populism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>populism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateDenial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDenial</span></a></p>
Jules<p>Zoe Hughes, an <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Exeter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Exeter</span></a> City council member for <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Pennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pennsylvania</span></a>, has resigned from the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/LabourParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LabourParty</span></a> over their banning of gender affirming treatment of under 18s.</p><p>Good for them, nice to see a politician with some principles.</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy89e1g71ppo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy89e1</span><span class="invisible">g71ppo</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>French guidelines: Doctors overwhelmingly support gender-affirming care<br><a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-french-guidelines-show-doctors-overwhelmingly-support-gender-affirming-care" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-fr</span><span class="invisible">ench-guidelines-show-doctors-overwhelmingly-support-gender-affirming-care</span></a><br><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929693X24001763" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S0929693X24001763</span></a></p><p>* medical guidelines contradict numerous conclusions f. the UK's infamous [transphobic] Cass Review</p><p>Cass Review:<br>U.K. bans puberty blockers indefinitely: “death sentence”<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113647533003469848" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@persagen/1136</span><span class="invisible">47533003469848</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransHealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransHealthcare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgenocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Catholicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Catholicism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgenocide</span></a></p>
Bob Jamieson<p>'An independent evaluation of the Cass review'</p><p>Can we get more support for this petition please?</p><p><a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700217" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petition.parliament.uk/petitio</span><span class="invisible">ns/700217</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/transRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a></p>
SleepyCatten<p>Hey folks</p><p>We all know <a href="https://transactual.org.uk/blog/2024/04/11/press-release-the-cass-review-is-bad-science-and-should-not-be-taken-seriously-by-policymakers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">how shite the Cass Review was/is</a>, and how it's been <a href="https://transactual.org.uk/advocacy/critiques-of-the-cass-review/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">universally discredited and rejected</a> :PleadingFace: </p><p>Alas, NHS England has now set its gaze firmly on a <a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/gender-dysphoria-clinical-programme/review-of-adult-gender-dysphoria-services/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">review of adult trans+ healthcare services</a> 😞</p><p>We would love to believe that this is being done in good faith, but NHS England has <strong>never</strong> been on the side of trans people.¹ As such, we believe that the best we can realistically hope for at this stage is damage limitation :FaceExhaling: </p><p>To this end, we wish to highlight that the page linked above links to an <a href="https://nhs.welcomesyourfeedback.net/s/93arah" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Adult Gender Services Review survey</strong></a>, which is open to:</p><blockquote><ul><li>current, and recent, patients who have been seen at one, or more, of the [Gender Dysphoria Clinics] in the past five years</li><li>family and friends of patients who have used services in the past five years</li><li>current staff members, and those who have worked at one, or more, of the centres in the past five years</li></ul></blockquote><p>Even if it doesn't change a thing, we should make our voices heard loudly and defiantly ✊ :TransHeart: :NonBinaryHeart: :AgenderHeart: :BiGenderHeart: :GenderfluidHeart: :GenderqueerHeart: :DemiBoyHeart: :DemiGirlHeart:</p><p>So let's go all out and tell them what we actually want:</p><ol><li>Depathologisation.</li><li>Desegregation.</li><li>Informed consent.</li></ol><p>We don't want <strong>better</strong> gender clinics: we want them to be <strong>dismantled entirely</strong>, in favour of desegregated healthcare.</p><p>We don't want to be <strong>forced</strong> to get a formal medical <strong>diagnosis of being trans</strong> to access basic GAHT / HRT, to have the right to consent to gender-affirming surgeries, or to change our legal gender.</p><p>We want <strong>world leading</strong> gender-affirming healthcare, beyond the nonsense, unscientific biases that still exist even in <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WPATH SOC8</a>.</p><p>They don't <strong>want</strong> to offer us this, and will do everything in their power to ignore us, but that doesn't mean that our voices shouldn't be heard.</p><p>Maybe trans liberation won't come today, but we need to fight for it at every stage :AnarchySymbol: </p><p>Boosts are very welcome and will be very much appreciated, by the by :BoostsOKPrideSymbol: </p><p><a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/NonBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NonBinary</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/agender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agender</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/bigender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigender</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/DemiBoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemiBoy</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/DemiGirl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemiGirl</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/genderfluid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genderfluid</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/genderqueer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genderqueer</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a>+ <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a>+ <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/LGBTQIA2S" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA2S</span></a>+ <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransLiberation</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransLiberationNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransLiberationNow</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRights</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NHS</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/LevyReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LevyReview</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/depathologisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>depathologisation</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/demedicalisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>demedicalisation</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/desegregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>desegregation</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/DesegregateTransHealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DesegregateTransHealthcare</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/InformedConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InformedConsent</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/survey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>survey</span></a> </p><p>¹ You can read all about the awful history of trans healthcare provided by NHS England in <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/315349/the-transgender-issue-by-faye-shon/9780141991801" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Transgender Issue: An Argument For Justice</a> by Shon Faye.</p>
Bob Jamieson<p>Please sign / boost this petition:</p><p>'An independant evaluation of the Cass Review review on child gender services'</p><p>h/t to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@essjayjay" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>essjayjay</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LGBTQA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/transRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transRights</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700217" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petition.parliament.uk/petitio</span><span class="invisible">ns/700217</span></a></p>
StaringAtClouds has moved<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Petition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Petition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a> </p><p>Request an independent evaluation of the Cass Review to ensure children aren’t being unduly harmed</p><p>We think that the Cass review's findings have led to restrictive practices that are being directly felt by transgender children</p><p> 3,388 signatures so far</p><p><a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700217" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petition.parliament.uk/petitio</span><span class="invisible">ns/700217</span></a></p>
Hrefna (DHC)<p>I "love" sensationalist reporting.</p><p>"BMA sees membership PLUNGE after position on <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a>!"</p><p>The article notes: hundreds of individuals.</p><p>The article doesn't seem to mention that the BMA is comprised of over 190,000 professionals. </p><p>Hundreds, especially an unspecified number of "hundreds," is nothing.</p>
Hrefna (DHC)<p>Polgreen, Lydia. The Strange Report Fueling the War on Trans Kids. New York Times. 13 August 2024.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/opinion/cass-report-trans-kids.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/08/13/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/cass-report-trans-kids.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>As another trans commentator mentioned recently, I think the most telling sign that NHS England's now infamous "Cass Review" is a pile of ideologically motived, pseudoscientific trash is that anyone from outside the U.K. who has reviewed the findings and methodology of the study has identified it as a clearly political document that has no business being referenced in the context of medical care guidelines; including numerous medical bodies that deal with trans care (WPATH, USPATH), the Yale Law department, and even notable anti-trans media outlets like the New York Times. In fact, the only people who seem to regard the document as a credible review of youth trans care policies are anti-trans moral panic crusaders and the government of TERF Island (whether Conservative, or Labour.) </p><p>For more information on why that is, let's turn to a recent article in Scientific American by Cal Horton and Ruth Pierce:</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240807184818/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-k-s-cass-review-badly-fails-trans-children/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2024080718</span><span class="invisible">4818/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-k-s-cass-review-badly-fails-trans-children/</span></a></p><p>The U.K.’s Cass Review Badly Fails Trans Children</p><p>"While the Cass Review has been presented by the U.K. media, politicians and some prominent doctors as a triumph of objective inquiry, its most controversial recommendations are based on prejudice rather than evidence. Instead of helping young people, the review has caused enormous harm to children and their families, to democratic discourse and to wider principles of scientific endeavour. There is an urgent need to critically examine the actual context and findings of the report.</p><p>Since its 2020 inception, the Cass Review’s anti-trans credentials have been clear. It explicitly excluded trans people from key roles in research, analysis and oversight of the project, while sidelining most practitioners with experience in trans health care. The project centered and sympathized with anti-trans voices, including professionals who deny the very existence of trans children. Former U.K. minister for women and equalities Kemi Badenoch, who has a history of hostility toward trans people even though her role was to promote equality within the government, boasted that the Cass Review was only possible because of her active involvement.</p><p>The methodology underpinning the Cass Review has been extensively criticized by medical experts and academics from a range of disciplines. Criticism has focused especially on the effect of bias on the Cass approach, double standards in the interpretation of data, substandard scientific rigor, methodological flaws and a failure to properly substantiate claims. For example, although the existing literature reports a wide range of important benefits of social transition and no credible evidence of harm, the Cass Review cautions against it. The review also dismisses substantial documented benefits of adolescent medical transition as underevidenced while highlighting risks based on evidence of significantly worse quality. A warning about impaired brain maturation, for instance, cites a single, very short speculative paper that in turn rests on one experimental study with female mice. Meanwhile extensive qualitative data and clinical consensus are almost entirely ignored. These issues help explain why the Cass recommendations differ from previous academic reviews and expert guidance from major medical organisations such as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and the American Academy of Pediatrics."</p><p>Frankly, I don't know how much I really have to add here that isn't covered by the article itself. National Health Service England put a noted transphobe in charge of proving, against all medical evidence, that youth gender affirming care was dangerous and unwarranted, and she then manipulated evidence and used pseudoscientific arguments with no basis in reality, to reach the desired conclusion. The tragic part here is that this pile of bigoted bullshit masquerading as a scientific study is now being used to deny trans youth in the U.K. vital, even life-saving access to gender affirming care with no sign that a newly elected Labour government has any intention of stopping this travesty. In fact, NHS England has announced that they intend to conduct a similar review of *adult* gender affirming care on TERF Island; just in case you think trans people were exaggerating when we said this was all about conducting an anti-trans pogrom under the auspices of "protecting the children." </p><p>The plain truth here is that the Cass Review is a bigoted, winger fever dream full of ideological nonsense and false accusations about what gender affirming care for adolescents actually entails; but despite this reality being pointed out by literally everyone aside from motivated parties in the U.K., it's already destroying trans lives all across TERF Island. </p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Pogrom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pogrom</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TERFIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TERFIsland</span></a></p>
Hrefna (DHC)<p>Horton, Cal and Pearce, Ruth. The U.K.’s Cass Review Badly Fails Trans Children. Scientific American (opinion). 7 August 2024.</p><p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-k-s-cass-review-badly-fails-trans-children/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificamerican.com/article</span><span class="invisible">/the-u-k-s-cass-review-badly-fails-trans-children/</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a></p>
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a> Badly <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fails</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Children</span></a></p><p>A <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/politicized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politicized</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>review</span></a> into <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NHS</span></a> has upended <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lives</span></a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a>—and threatens to spread <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harm</span></a> across the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/globe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>globe</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Women</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TERFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TERFS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NHS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bigotry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Violence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discrimination</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GateKeeping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GateKeeping</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ExportingHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExportingHate</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-k-s-cass-review-badly-fails-trans-children/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificamerican.com/article</span><span class="invisible">/the-u-k-s-cass-review-badly-fails-trans-children/</span></a></p>
SleepyCatten<p>Wasn't quite expecting this from the BMA (British Medical Association), but they have come out fighting against the Cass Review :TransHeart: </p><p><a href="https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bma-to-undertake-an-evaluation-of-the-cass-review-on-gender-identity-services-for-children-and-young-people" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bm</span><span class="invisible">a-to-undertake-an-evaluation-of-the-cass-review-on-gender-identity-services-for-children-and-young-people</span></a></p><p>Here are some highlights for those who don't want to follow the link:</p><blockquote><p>Members of the BMA's Council recently voted in favour of a motion which asked the Association to 'publicly critique the Cass Review', after doctors and academics in several countries, including the UK, voiced concern about weaknesses in the methodologies used in the Review and problems arising from the implementation of some of the recommendations.</p></blockquote><p>This is followed by:</p><blockquote><p>The BMA is calling for a pause to the implementation of the Cass Review's recommendations whilst the task and finish group carries out its work. It is expected to be completed towards the end of this year. In the meantime, the BMA believes transgender and gender-diverse patients should continue to receive specialist healthcare, regardless of their age.</p></blockquote><p>And then by:</p><blockquote><p>The BMA has been critical of proposals to ban the prescribing of puberty blockers to children and young people with gender dysphoria, calling instead for more research to help form a solid evidence base for children's care – not just in gender dysphoria but more widely in paediatric treatments. The Association believes clinicians, patients and families should make decisions about treatment on the best available evidence, not politicians.</p></blockquote><p>This feels like a <strong>real</strong> middle finger up to Wes Streeting🖕 who recently proposed making the ban permanent as the new UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.</p><p><a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/BMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BMA</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/PressRelease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PressRelease</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/PubertyBlockers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PubertyBlockers</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransYouthAreLoved" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransYouthAreLoved</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransKidsDeserveToThrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransKidsDeserveToThrive</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransKidsDeserveBetter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransKidsDeserveBetter</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransKidsDeserveToGrowUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransKidsDeserveToGrowUp</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/WesStreeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesStreeting</span></a></p>
Bruce Mirken<p>"...the British Medical Association (BMA), voted in favor of a resolution to publicly critique the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/CassReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CassReview</span></a> used to crack down on gender affirming care for <a href="https://mas.to/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> youth in the United Kingdom, calling its recommendations unsubstantiated."</p><p><a href="https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/british-medical-association-calls" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">erininthemorning.com/p/british</span><span class="invisible">-medical-association-calls</span></a></p>
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