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Dr. Hilary Cass - report re trans.

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Urmstongran Tue 09-Apr-24 14:32:37

This, from Suzanne Moore today in The Telegraph:

“ When Dr Hilary Cass was commissioned to report on standards of care within the NHS, it was as if finally an adult had stepped into the room. She and her team have looked at the evidence and practices that have evolved the affirmative model (designed to support and affirm an individual’s gender identity) and found much wanting. She also signalled the high levels of comorbidities with gender dysphoria. A high proportion of girls who did not want to be girls were autistic. Many had troubled childhoods or had been in care. Many were gay. All of this resulted in the unravelling of Gids and a ban on puberty blockers.

In the full report, due to be published this week, Cass is not only concerned with medical intervention but is also expected to come out against “social transition”. This is not something that happens within the health service, but it is, she says, an “active intervention because it may have significant effects on the child or young person in terms of psychological functioning. There are different views on the benefits versus the harms of early social transition… it is not a neutral act and better information is needed about outcomes.”

Some believe that socially transitioning kids locks them into an identity and medical pathway that is detrimental. Cass says that gender expression is indeed fluid and changeable for adolescents and that many may take till their mid-20s to settle. In other words, leave these kids alone.”

Maybe, just maybe, we are turning a corner regarding this topic. I hope so.

Mollygo Thu 02-May-24 13:48:37

Iam64
A good/outstanding local school needs improvement after a member of staff mis-pronound a child.

Evidence?

Namsnanny Thu 02-May-24 14:46:37

It seems to me that the hardest job of all is taking DEI out of teacher training and schools.

Whilst schools pass the responsibility for (sorry forgotten the proper terminology), sex ed over to charities (with vested interests), who use business models to make money based on sales and services, (which most schools have to buy).
Whilst said schools themselves take no responsibility for the outcomes.
There seems no incentive to buck this system.

Continually bouncing the problem back to the gov., who only call for reports, and inquiries, but do very little but carry on wasting our tax money paying the very charities who are spreading this ideology.

We watch on with very little power, and become grateful little comrades when those on high (choose any politician you care to, I'm going to mention K Badenogh) deign to throw us a bone in the shape of a word (woman, mother, female?).

But still finance 6-8 gender care clinics through out the country.

Sometimes, just sometimes I feel we are being played.

I could go on, but the be all and end all from my perspective, is to rid ourselves of DEI which Stonewall and others hide behind.

Sorry lecture over.

Iam64 Thu 02-May-24 15:04:29

Mollygo - friends teach there

Mollygo Thu 02-May-24 15:22:44

Sorry, I’ve googled schools given requires improvement or that have gone from outstanding to requires improvement because of mis- pronouning and still have no evidence. Of course it could have been part of a greater need for improvement in the school overall which case it will take longer to identify from their OFSTED reports.

Iam64 Thu 02-May-24 20:15:41

Mollygo the other issue, so far as I’m aware, was inspectors heard racist comments from pupils in corridors
I’m not trying to make something of nothing. My adult children were happy at this school. Friends teach there

Doodledog Fri 03-May-24 09:01:51

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Doodledog Fri 03-May-24 09:06:15

Oops. That was meant to go on the other thread. I'll post it on there and ask for it to be deleted from this one.