World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Files

I briefly alluded to his suicide claims earlier. With the UK government exposing his lies his public life should be left in tatters such that he's never seen or heard from ever again. Bizarre he should just carry on as normal as if nothing happened.

#BeKind

Just rounding back to the begining of the thread. Mia Hughes was dismissed as an anti-trans activist. Have a look at this and see for yourself - to me she comes across as a journalist who has got her hands on some information that is in the public interest to desiminate. She makes some interesting comparisons between the medical treatment of trans patients and notable historical medical scandals. Her arguments are compelling.

Ah, but I would question the very existence of Trans kids, for what is a trans child, if not a child with "issues" that has been told (by adults) who believe in Gender-ideolog that they may be born into the wrong body!

… hence they should be transitioned, firstly when still a child by a name/pronoun change, then drugs to stop puberty, followed by surgery to become their "true" gender!

WPATH files & Dr Hilary Cass say NO.

Being wired differently is fine, as its within the parameters of human nature & biology. Effeminate boys in dresses or butch tomboy girls have occured all the time throughout history & that's cool 👍 Being trans is another thing altogether, as it requires you to believe in an ideology (based not on nature or biology), but rather on a non provable belief system.

Sounds like that person was an old school "transsexual", who do still exist and always have. Nowadays though the concept has been overtaken by ideologues who insist that men with a fetish (formerly known as transvestites) are actually women, and pretty much anyone who doesnt exactly conform to gender stereotypes, be included under the same umbrella, or else. I'm sure your friend wasn't going around threatening to punch women if they weren't allowed into the toilets or having a fit about not being able to be on the girls sports team.

Pure gold this interview.

@carveone JK Rowling is quite the hero. She has used her position of wealth and fame as a sort of shield to protect others with similar views who don't have the resources to fight the very vocal opposition.

Around 1000 doctors have signed an open letter raising concerns about the BMA stance of disregarding the Cass review and stating that they are "extremely disappointed" with their actions. Again, pretty much the opposite of what a certain poster was predicting.

Organisers of the letter to the BMA leadership say it has the support of about 1,000 doctors, more than half of whom are BMA members.

They say 23 former or current clinical leaders at Royal Colleges are among the supporters.

The letter says the Cass Review was right to conclude there was so little evidence about the “safety and efficacy” of puberty blockers that they should only be prescribed under research conditions.

It goes on to argue that the BMA was “going against the principles of evidence-based medicine and against ethical practice”.

That's the one, and he's very even- handed. The behaviour of the Yale academics is disturbing in terms of the integrity of third level education in general, however I suppose the fact that they tried, and failed to undermine the key findings actually enhances the standing of the Cass review.

I think Singal is working on a part II of the blog post linked.

And am I risking being banned from this thread for saying that Mridul Wadhwa is male, even though Wadhwa literally didn't bother getting a GRC which was easily available, and therefore got the job counselling female rape victims (and selecting other "female" rape counsellors to do the same) under false pretences?

Because the problem is that it's impossible to express a principled objection to Wadhwa's position as head of ERCC if one has to pretend to believe that Wadhwa is female. If Wadhwa is a woman, then any such objection becomes an objection to a particular kind of woman. Like objecting to an Indian, or a lesbian - which would of course be wrong.

But women who have been raped and abused by men are often traumatised by the presence of men, and it makes healing impossible for them if they are expected to ignore the presence of a man just because that man claims to feel like a woman.

Trans men nearly always do continue in the female category, unsurprisingly. And of course that makes sense - because they would be so outclassed in the male category that it would be the end of their career.

And literally everyone acknowledges this. Somehow though, when it comes to trans women we have a bunch of (mainly male) posters screaming about how anyone who doesnt think they should compete against females is an awful bigot and that theres no difference between them and a biological female. Wonder why this is?

The more I think about this topic, the more my head hurts. There's so much mental gymnastics going on. Some examples:

There has been justified outrage over many years due to revelations of the East German state sponsored doping system, which forced drugs including testosterone on young teen girls with disasterous health consequences, including premature death. Now, we have activists promoting the use of testosterone on young teen girls.

Left wing people have tended to be highly educated people supportive of science, free speech, and reasoned debate. Yet, people have been banned from speaking on college campuses, lost jobs, had death threats against them…there's so much dishonesty.

Disagreement has been labelled "hate speech".

It's been shocking how various groups, in the US in particular, have doubled down in the aftermath of the WPATH revelations and the Cass Review final report.

I wish I knew that the solution is.

Funny coincidence (or maybe not as you never know with social media). But, there was a video yesterday on the RTE news site about women's heart health with some interesting statements, like apparently most women believe they are more likely to die of breast cancer than a heart attack or stroke. In reality, they are six times more likely to die of a heart attack or stroke than breast cancer. It went on to describe how the symptoms (of heart attack and stroke) can differ between men and women. I was thinking well that was nice that the video referred unambiguously to women. But, then what other word could they have used in the context of heart health? "People with a cervix" would just sound (even more) ridiculous.

So, then a copy of this social media post appeared in my feed today. The European Society of Cardiology has (just) removed sex from a risk score for stroke, maybe in the complete opposite reaction to the conundrum above. Read the rationale given in the post below …

It seems, what little progress has been made in highlighting distinctions between women's general health and men's general health, in a way that benefits women, is taking backward steps in the cause of gender inclusivity.

I've yet to see any men's health issue such as prostate or testicular cancer have the fact that it's males who are effected be completely erased. Yet from cervical cancer, to childbirth, and now apparently, strokes, the word "woman" is becoming verboten from female health issues so as not to offend males.