One of the biggest cat fights in the media at present is between the US side of The Guardian and the UK side.
We all recall Freddie, who insisted upon being listed as the father of the baby she’d just given birth to? That’s the Guardian worker who complained that she was in fear of her life (or some such) because the G had published a piece by Suzanne Moore which was less than entirely believing of the wilder trans claims.
Moore left, but so did Freddie.
The UK G is approximately and roughly sensible on the trans issue now. Well, as sensible as The G ever is at least.
The US G however is still way, waaaaay, out there in La-La Land. The cat fight between the two sides is wondrous to behold at times.
A review into the NHS’s gender identity services has found that children and young people have been let down by a lack of research and evidence on medical interventions in a debate that has become exceptionally toxic.
Dr Hilary Cass said her report was not about defining “what it means to be trans” or “undermining the validity of trans identities”, but about “how best to help the growing number of children and young people who are looking for support from the NHS in relation to their gender identity”. Here are the review’s key findings.
The evidence
“This is an area of remarkably weak evidence,” Cass writes in the foreword to her 398-page report.
That’s why the UK G gives an explainer which is actually an explainer, rather than a rant about how the Cass report is killing teenagers. We’ll have to wait and see what the US G response is…..
A review into the NHS’s gender identity services has found that children and young people have been mutilated, tortured, poisoned, castrated, and sterilised as a consequence of a lack of research and evidence on medical interventions in a debate that has become exceptionally toxic.
The UK Guardian does this morning have one critical post of the Cass report, and (predictably) it’s from a mother who failed her child by allowing it to transition and thinks that this should be a mistake available to every mother in the UK.
And in today’s “Top Stories” from Our Dear Beeb, the Grauniad’s broadcast wing:
“Children seeking gender care let down by weak evidence, review says”
Bless ’em 😉
(c/w Sky: “‘Remarkably weak evidence’ supporting gender treatments for children, major review warns)
“This is an area of remarkably weak evidence,”
And then manages to spin 398 pages out of it
THIS JUST IN …
That from Stuart Campbell’s WingsOverScotland. Who also points out that the proposed Labour “conversion therapy” ban would make Dr. Hilary Cass a criminal for recommending the NHS adopt a much more cautious and evidence-based approach to “transitioning” children.
Skimming the report myself, I agree with him; it is pretty hard hitting. One finds stuff like “there continues to be a lack of high-quality evidence in this area and disappointingly, as will become clear in this report, attempts to improve the evidence base have been thwarted by a lack of cooperation from the adult gender services.”
(my bolds above)
And in this report, as everywhere, so much time and money spent on the mess of lunacy, evil and corruption that is the current madness of the crowd.