Cass Review Checklist
How do we measure the worth of the Cass Review when it comes out?
We are led to believe that the final Cass Review is imminent. I have previously stated I think it will be a sop, and was just 'the political long grass', four years of dodging the issue. When it is published, what should we look out for? Here's your checklist...
1. Will it perpetuate the lie that some people can actually *be* transgender? This is used as an excuse for the availability of medical interventions despite there being no evidence of clinical justification or net benefit.
2. Will it continue to rely on gender incongruence (aka gender dysphoria) as if it were a valid diagnosis? We know these "diagnoses" are in fact collections of feelings, and we've known for years they are frequently faked.
Patients 'coached to fast-track sex change treatment'
3. Will it acknowledge the existence of transgender ideation as a precursor adopting a factitious "gender identity"?
Lifecycle of Transgender Ideation | Our Duty
Our Duty Lifecycle of Transgender Ideation
https://ourduty.group/education/lifecycle-of-transgender-ideation/
4. Will it acknowledge that its terms of reference were inappropriate in that it did not include adolescents over 18 years of age (or even vulnerable adults over 25)?
Surely the review was intended to deal with the phenomenon of adolescent transgender ideation? Why did it not?
5. Will it recognise that Early Intervention can be very successful at preventing the rumination that can lead to transgender ideation becoming persistent, and sometimes intractable? If so, will such help be resourced appropriately?
6. Will it recognise the ideological capture of the NHS by gender identity ideology and make recommendations for the wholesale removal of that ideology, and a return to evidence-based medicine?
7. Will it use objective language?
Or will it use the language of gender identity ideology and so perpetuate the lies of the gender identity advocacy movement?
8. Will it make recommendations that render CAMHS and the NHS safe for children and young people with transgender ideation?
This is the most crucial question. If medicalisation remains an option (at any age on the NHS), then young people will not be safe.
9. Will it uphold the rights of parents to refuse to accommodate the tenets of gender identity ideology to the extent that it renders moves to embed transgenderism into society via 'conversion therapy' laws untenable?
10. Will it recognise the value of 'Supportive Waiting' (watchful waiting with added timely, targeted counselling interventions) as the best course for chronic transgender ideation?
11. Cass has previously stated we ought to accept gender identity ideology because of a 'generational shift'. She was wrong to do so. Will her final review reject the Zeitgeist in favour of objectivity?
12. Will the final Cass Review address the ethical case for banning opposite-sex imitation medicine?
13. Will there be recognition that transgender ideation affects different cohorts in different ways, and that the science for pre-pubescent boys, or middle-aged men, does not apply to adolescents of either sex? i.e. transgenderism is not homogenous.
14. Will the Cass Review offer recommendations for holistic treatment of detransitioners?
The victims of the trans medical scandal deserve the best possible remediation.
15. Will there be acknowledgment that social norms are a significant contributory factor in transgender ideation and that their management requires a similar approach to that taken with diesel particulates when they were implicated in childhood asthma?
I am sure that I have missed some checks from this 'off the top of my head' list. Which checks would you add?
If you know any journalists who will be covering the Cass Review when it comes out, please make sure they have this list so they can do a proper job.
Will it acknowledge that a significant contribution to children presenting with transgender ideation starts in the schools and education sector and that to treat the cause of this plague, the health sector needs to become directly involved in all key stages of education?