TRIGGERnometry - The Cass Review Shames the Gay-Rights Establishment

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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 0.94

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, 0.62

00:01:57.580 put it best when he wrote, 0.99

00:01:59.620 The absolute fucking nerve of these people. 0.99

00:02:02.520 Mermaid's CEO Laurence Stoner is another in the running for the Brass Neck Award, 0.99

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 0.89

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, 0.77

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, 1.00

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 0.95

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 0.98

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. 0.79

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, 0.94

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 0.95

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 0.88

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, 0.62

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. 1.00

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 1.00

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. 0.84

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. 0.93

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.

TRIGGERnometry - April 20, 2024

The Cass Review Shames the Gay-Rights Establishment

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