TRIGGERnometry - April 20, 2024


The Cass Review Shames the Gay-Rights Establishment


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For years, those who have sounded the alarm over the dangers of gender-affirming paediatric treatment have been monstered as bigots, hateful, transphobic, and even fascist. Now their concerns have been vindicated by the Cass Review, and those most responsible for the monstering are already attempting to wriggle their way out of accepting responsibility.

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00:01:00.820 Get ready for the excuses.
00:01:03.000 For years now, those who have sounded the alarm over the dangers of gender-affirming paediatric treatment
00:01:08.420 have been monstered as bigots, hateful, transphobic, and even fascist.
00:01:14.120 Now their concerns have been entirely vindicated by the Cass Review,
00:01:17.640 and those most responsible for the monstering are already attempting to wriggle their way
00:01:22.480 out of accepting responsibility.
00:01:24.100 We can expect much more of this as further revelations come to light.
00:01:28.000 Take Stonewall, the charity most culpable for spreading this toxic ideology.
00:01:33.020 In a statement posted recently on X, it appeared to endorse the review's findings,
00:01:38.260 even quoting approvingly Dr. Hilary Cass's plea to remember the children and young people
00:01:43.200 trying to live their lives, and the families, carers, and clinicians doing their best to support them.
00:01:48.600 What can one say about such serpentine sleight of tongue?
00:01:51.800 Perhaps the actor James Dreyfuss, one who has felt the full brunt of the wrath of gender ideologues,
00:01:57.580 put it best when he wrote,
00:01:59.620 The absolute fucking nerve of these people.
00:02:02.520 Mermaid's CEO Laurence Stoner is another in the running for the Brass Neck Award,
00:02:07.440 appearing on Sky News to claim that,
00:02:09.540 We're not medical experts.
00:02:10.720 We don't advocate for any pathway.
00:02:13.920 Mermaid's made the same claim in the tribunal it initiated,
00:02:16.980 in a failed attempt to strip LGB Alliance of its charitable status.
00:02:20.580 And yet in leaked emails, it was discovered to have given advice
00:02:23.980 to the now disgraced Gender Identity Development Service, JIDS, at the Tavistock Clinic.
00:02:29.680 Most notably, Mermaid's had offered support in the drafting of an NHS service specification.
00:02:34.540 And Mermaid's website currently claims that puberty blockers are an internationally recognised,
00:02:39.800 safe, reversible health care option,
00:02:42.820 even though there is mounting evidence of the dangers of these drugs.
00:02:46.520 One of the findings of the Cass Review is that there is no evidence for the efficacy of puberty blockers.
00:02:51.800 Rather than being a pause in which young people can take time to figure out their gender identity,
00:02:57.140 in almost all cases, they lead on to cross-sex hormones and, in some cases, irreversible surgery.
00:03:03.380 During Stoner's interview for Sky News, she was also quick to remind us that Mermaid's has been
00:03:08.580 supporting trans young people and their families for nearly 30 years.
00:03:13.600 What she neglected to mention is that until the arrival of former CEO Susie Green,
00:03:18.700 a woman who took her son to Thailand on his 16th birthday to have him castrated,
00:03:23.900 Mermaid's actually offered sensible advice to parents of children who were struggling with their gender.
00:03:28.800 A leaflet produced by the charity in the year 2000 is more in line with the watchful waiting approach
00:03:34.400 favoured by many paediatric therapists.
00:03:36.500 This is what it said.
00:03:38.680 Gender identity disorders in infancy, childhood and adolescence are complex and have varied causes.
00:03:45.060 In the majority of cases, the eventual outcome will be homosexuality or bisexuality,
00:03:50.080 but often there will be a heterosexual outcome,
00:03:52.460 as some gender issues can be caused by a bereavement,
00:03:55.560 a dysfunctional family life or, rarely, by abuse.
00:03:59.580 Only a small proportion of cases will result in a transsexual outcome.
00:04:03.440 That even Mermaids once held this position shows the extent to which gender identity ideology
00:04:09.420 drives well-intentioned people away from the truth,
00:04:13.100 and a reminder that this belief system has taken hold remarkably quickly.
00:04:16.980 Both Mermaids and Stonewall were mentioned by Tavistock whistleblower Dr. David Bell
00:04:21.560 as being chiefly to blame for the current climate of making people afraid of even listening to another view.
00:04:27.320 To this we might add groups such as Gendered Intelligence,
00:04:31.340 the LGBT Foundation, and the online Pink News,
00:04:35.200 which has published defamatory pieces about those who have objected to the rise of this ideology.
00:04:40.360 The irreversible surgical malpractice that has left many young people sterile
00:04:44.060 and eliminated their sexual function can be put down to the intimidation
00:04:47.920 that has been stoked by groups who claim to advocate for LGBT rights.
00:04:52.220 And what are the private practices, those who evaded the NHS's recent ban on puberty blockers?
00:04:59.060 Of course there are financial and ideological incentives for these groups to dismiss the CAS review,
00:05:04.180 and so we shouldn't be surprised that Dr. Aidan Kelly from private clinic Gender Plus
00:05:08.800 appeared on Novara Media to argue that the evidence demanded by CAS
00:05:12.860 is neither deliverable nor desirable.
00:05:15.920 Host Michael Walker seemed to think that the figure of approximately 1,000 patients in 10 years
00:05:21.140 prescribed puberty blockers was too low to merit concern,
00:05:25.720 and that some of these issues have been politicized in a way that they don't need to be.
00:05:30.500 One wonders how many instances of testicular atrophy, increased risk of cancer, osteoporosis,
00:05:36.340 or impaired brain development in healthy children should be considered acceptable.
00:05:41.680 Why are we even countenancing ruining young people's lives
00:05:44.400 through the unevidenced experimental and ideological medicalization of problems
00:05:48.780 that almost certainly require a psychotherapeutic approach?
00:05:52.500 Novara Media might want to start preparing its own excuses too,
00:05:56.000 given that it published an article in December 2021 offering advice
00:05:59.640 on how to deceive medical professionals in order to be prescribed opposite-sex hormones.
00:06:05.520 I'm not suggesting you tell any especially big fibs, the article says,
00:06:09.500 but maybe finesse your story into one that's likely to be received
00:06:13.520 with the least amount of confusion.
00:06:15.280 And bear that in mind with the psychiatrist too.
00:06:18.420 You're not here to make friends, you're here to get hormones.
00:06:21.500 This kind of duplicity has been widespread.
00:06:24.400 Dr Hilary Cass has revealed to the British Medical Journal
00:06:27.000 that children have been coached on what to say and what not to say
00:06:31.520 in order to be prescribed puberty blockers.
00:06:34.580 They're told not to say they're unsure about their sexuality,
00:06:37.440 not to say they've been abused,
00:06:39.260 because it's so high stakes at that point, she said.
00:06:41.860 We have known for a long time that the overwhelming majority of children
00:06:45.240 referred to the Tavistock were same-sex attracted
00:06:47.680 and that gender non-conformity in youth is a reliable predictor of homosexuality in later life.
00:06:52.760 This has been confirmed in the final report by Dr Cass,
00:06:55.500 which found that 89% of girls and 81% of boys referred to JIDS
00:06:59.840 were either homosexual or bisexual.
00:07:02.800 The NHS has been practising gay conversion therapy in plain sight.
00:07:07.200 We also know that those who have been abused
00:07:09.080 are disproportionately represented among the patients.
00:07:12.160 One study cited in the final cast report
00:07:14.260 shows that one in five children referred to gender services
00:07:17.180 have suffered sexual or physical abuse.
00:07:20.180 In other words, rather than experiencing some kind of esoteric mismatch
00:07:24.080 between body and gendered soul,
00:07:26.400 most of these kids are simply gay or troubled.
00:07:29.540 And yet they're being coached to lie about their actual problems
00:07:33.640 to satisfy the expectations of ideologues.
00:07:36.140 These people have snake oil to sell.
00:07:39.560 And if a few children have to suffer, then so be it.
00:07:42.720 Throughout the Cass review,
00:07:44.000 the lack of evidence for all of these treatments is continually emphasised.
00:07:47.480 The very notion of gender medicine
00:07:49.200 is underpinned by the belief that we each have a gender identity,
00:07:53.220 what Helen Joyce has described as
00:07:54.840 something like a sexed soul.
00:07:57.540 In this, she is supported by trans campaigners like Julia Serrano,
00:08:01.080 who calls it a subconscious sex.
00:08:04.220 Or the barrister, Robin Moira White,
00:08:06.240 who on my show, Free Speech Nation,
00:08:08.180 said it was an essence of male or female.
00:08:11.300 This amounts to a faith in the supernatural
00:08:13.280 and is a key doctrine of the new state religion of gender.
00:08:17.500 It goes without saying that people are entitled to their beliefs,
00:08:20.680 but the idea that a metaphysical hypothesis
00:08:23.000 should form the basis of NHS practice
00:08:25.500 is, on reflection, extremely bizarre.
00:08:29.360 One of the reasons why this has been allowed to happen
00:08:31.320 is that so many have been duped into accepting
00:08:33.700 that this quasi-religion has some basis in science.
00:08:37.420 This is largely down to the influence of WPATH,
00:08:40.040 the World Professional Association of Transgender Health,
00:08:42.560 a body established in 1979
00:08:44.220 that is recognised as the leading global authority in this area
00:08:47.600 and one that has pushed for the normalisation
00:08:49.920 of the gender-affirming approach.
00:08:51.800 Its standards of care have formed the basis of policies
00:08:55.120 throughout the Western world, including the NHS,
00:08:58.320 and it is explicitly critiqued in the CAF's review
00:09:00.760 for its lack of developmental rigour.
00:09:03.720 In early March, the credibility of WPATH was shattered
00:09:06.300 when internal messages and videos
00:09:08.420 which had been leaked to journalist Michael Schellenberger
00:09:11.040 were made public.
00:09:12.460 A full report was written by journalist Mia Hughes
00:09:14.900 for the Environmental Progress Think Tank.
00:09:17.240 It was called The WPATH Files,
00:09:19.220 Pseudoscientific Surgical and Hormonal Experiments
00:09:22.080 on Children, Adolescents and Vulnerable Adults.
00:09:25.480 It revealed a general lack of ethical and professional standards.
00:09:29.360 There are messages proving that surgeons and therapists
00:09:31.960 are aware that a significant proportion of young people
00:09:35.020 referred to gender clinicians
00:09:36.220 suffer from mental health problems.
00:09:38.800 Some specialists associated with WPATH
00:09:40.680 are proceeding with treatment
00:09:42.440 in the knowledge that no consent has been secured
00:09:45.960 from either the children or those directly responsible
00:09:49.160 for their well-being.
00:09:50.460 They have also withheld from patients details
00:09:52.920 of potential lifelong complications
00:09:54.860 or continued down this path
00:09:56.720 knowing that the children do not understand the implications.
00:10:00.760 But then how could a prepubescent
00:10:02.620 or even adolescent child
00:10:04.280 fully grasp the concepts of lifelong sterility
00:10:07.460 or a loss of sexual function?
00:10:10.060 The revelations of the WPATH files
00:10:11.780 should have been the end of gender-affirming care.
00:10:15.000 But so deeply rooted is this ideology
00:10:17.640 in all of our major institutions
00:10:19.580 that it was always going to take a lot more.
00:10:21.840 The BBC has yet to report on the WPATH files,
00:10:25.480 which is perhaps to be expected from an organisation
00:10:27.520 that has actively contributed
00:10:29.020 to the promotion of gender identity ideology.
00:10:31.960 In one BBC film,
00:10:33.320 a woman is seen telling a group of children
00:10:35.200 that there are over a hundred genders.
00:10:37.720 I have sent five requests to the BBC press office
00:10:41.340 over a period of more than a month
00:10:42.960 to find out why the WPATH files have been ignored.
00:10:46.560 I have yet to receive a response.
00:10:49.020 But for those who are interested,
00:10:50.620 I presented a two-hour special
00:10:52.300 on the WPATH files on my show,
00:10:54.940 Free Speech Nation on GB News.
00:10:57.400 The link to that show is in the description.
00:10:59.780 The problems do not end with the BBC.
00:11:02.020 Politicians on both sides of the house
00:11:03.580 have been complicit in the spread
00:11:05.220 of gender identity ideology
00:11:06.580 and its destructive consequences.
00:11:09.040 When Liz Truss tabled a debate
00:11:10.600 on her Health and Equality Act Amendment bill in March,
00:11:13.860 a motion which raised concerns
00:11:15.340 about the social transitioning of children in schools
00:11:17.660 and how private companies are evading the NHS ban
00:11:20.600 on puberty blockers,
00:11:22.360 Labour and Conservative MPs
00:11:24.420 spent four hours filibustering about ferrets
00:11:27.880 in order to prevent the discussion.
00:11:30.600 Their ignorance of this ideology
00:11:32.160 has made them its cheerleaders.
00:11:34.260 We should not expect many of these people
00:11:36.520 to admit that they were mistaken.
00:11:38.860 The psychological consequences of accepting
00:11:40.920 that one has been complicit
00:11:42.600 in gay conversion therapy
00:11:44.380 and the medicalisation of healthy children
00:11:46.560 is perhaps too much for many to bear.
00:11:49.140 Since details of the Cass Review were published,
00:11:51.540 Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman,
00:11:54.180 a woman who has criticised biology school textbooks
00:11:56.860 for stating that sex is binary
00:11:58.700 and who has suggested that children as young as eight
00:12:01.360 should be able to transition,
00:12:02.740 she's already decried the contents.
00:12:06.520 Trans healthcare is vital to protecting and supporting
00:12:09.720 the rights and lives of trans people,
00:12:12.320 she posted on X,
00:12:13.840 adding that her party will oppose any moves
00:12:16.640 to increase the age of accessing gender-affirming care
00:12:19.160 to 25.
00:12:21.040 Of course, the Cass Review makes no such recommendations.
00:12:23.880 Rather, it says that NHS England
00:12:26.100 should establish follow-through services
00:12:28.140 for 17 to 25-year-olds
00:12:29.960 at each of the regional centres,
00:12:32.080 either by extending the range
00:12:33.600 of the regional children and young people's service
00:12:35.600 or through linked services
00:12:37.060 to ensure continuity of care and support
00:12:39.760 at a potentially vulnerable stage in their journey.
00:12:42.300 This kind of moderate caution
00:12:43.860 is certainly commendable,
00:12:45.700 given that the adult brain
00:12:46.760 is not fully developed until the age of 25.
00:12:49.200 Of course, it's too late for some.
00:12:51.400 One detransitioner posted the following on X.
00:12:54.160 Had the recommendations from the Cass Review
00:12:55.700 being implemented when I transitioned,
00:12:57.820 in particular the recommendation of waiting
00:12:59.820 until the age of 25,
00:13:01.820 I would never have transitioned.
00:13:03.780 I grew out of gender dysphoria by the age of 22,
00:13:06.940 but had my genitals amputated by then.
00:13:09.820 Although MPs sought to prevent a debate
00:13:11.780 on the problem of private gender clinics,
00:13:13.820 perhaps the Cass Review's criticism of these clinics
00:13:16.020 for pressurising GPs into prescribing the drugs
00:13:18.860 will change all of that.
00:13:20.840 Not surprisingly,
00:13:22.120 these unscrupulous practitioners are defiant.
00:13:25.520 A statement from GenderGP
00:13:27.200 has vowed to ignore the recommendations
00:13:29.080 of the Cass Review
00:13:29.860 and continue with its unevidenced
00:13:31.840 gender-affirming approach,
00:13:33.520 according to the WPATH Standards of Care.
00:13:36.160 The revelations from the WPATH files
00:13:37.880 means nothing to the high priests of this cult.
00:13:41.040 And let's not forget
00:13:41.800 that the current version
00:13:42.920 of the WPATH Standards of Care
00:13:44.300 includes a chapter on eunuchs,
00:13:46.700 which urges medical practitioners
00:13:48.360 to perform castrations
00:13:49.980 on patients who so identify.
00:13:52.880 Undoing the influence of such pseudoscience
00:13:55.260 is going to be a long and arduous process.
00:13:58.380 The ideas are too entrenched,
00:14:00.420 which explains why even the Cass Review
00:14:02.040 has adopted some of the language
00:14:03.760 of the ideology,
00:14:05.020 for example, cisgender,
00:14:06.860 or references to sex assigned at birth.
00:14:10.400 Besides, too much is at stake
00:14:12.280 for individuals who promoted these beliefs.
00:14:14.300 Already, commentators like James O'Brien
00:14:16.560 are blaming the toxicity
00:14:18.260 of those who have tried to warn people
00:14:20.620 of the dangers over the last decade.
00:14:22.780 We can expect similar revisionist attempts
00:14:24.800 from others who have failed to speak out,
00:14:27.140 and no doubt the culture war
00:14:28.980 will be blamed
00:14:29.860 by those most responsible for waging it.
00:14:32.580 Ultimately, those responsible
00:14:33.940 must be held accountable.
00:14:35.840 Stonewall should finally be driven
00:14:37.480 out of public life.
00:14:39.060 Whereas the charity once fought for gay people,
00:14:41.380 it now actively works against them.
00:14:44.360 There should be an investigation
00:14:45.200 into how it was allowed
00:14:46.580 to maintain its influence
00:14:47.800 in major institutions,
00:14:49.280 even after its shift away from gay rights
00:14:51.780 and towards an anti-gay agenda.
00:14:54.380 Any government departments and quangos
00:14:56.380 still associated with Stonewall
00:14:58.060 should sever all ties immediately.
00:15:00.720 Both the Conservatives and Labour
00:15:02.180 ought to ditch their commitment
00:15:03.460 to a ban on trans-conversion therapy,
00:15:05.980 and recognise that this will effectively
00:15:08.120 stymie the therapeutic efforts
00:15:09.900 of medical practitioners
00:15:11.260 to support gender non-conforming children.
00:15:14.260 Moreover, there should be a ban
00:15:15.500 on private clinics
00:15:16.800 who intend to persist
00:15:18.000 with WPATH guidelines
00:15:19.400 in spite of Dr. Cass's recommendations.
00:15:22.140 Above all,
00:15:23.040 we need to ensure
00:15:24.060 that the well-being of children
00:15:25.500 is never again sacrificed
00:15:27.480 on the altar of ideology.
00:15:29.920 This video was based on an article
00:15:31.760 I wrote for Spiked Online,
00:15:33.180 but most of my articles
00:15:34.480 appear on my Substack
00:15:35.860 a long time before
00:15:37.160 they appear as videos
00:15:38.140 here on Trigonometry.
00:15:39.660 So if you're interested,
00:15:40.740 please do check out my Substack.
00:15:42.460 The link is in the description.