Dr. Hilary Cass socks it to the ‘transgender’ movement

Thus, the report urges that the way forward should be guided by the evidence of “efficacy and safety.” Gee, you think? Isn’t that what medicine is all about: Do No Harm? The patient’s welfare should be the priority.

Hillary Cass, OBE, is a prominent and acclaimed British pediatrician. After four years of investigation, she just published her “Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People to the National Health Service (NHS) of the United Kingdom.” After she and her team reviewed the literature—100 plus studies on hormone and puberty blocker interventions—they concluded that there is “remarkably weak evidence” on the issues of efficacy and safety. They concluded that gender-affirming care should be offered with “extreme caution” or not at all for minors until better studies and more reliable evidence are available.

Here in America, doctors and institutions have aggressively adopted gender interventions, sometimes with very little investigation into the nature and magnitude of a person’s/child’s alleged gender dysphoria. These aggressive attitudes and approaches took a big hit from Dr. Cass.

Dr. Cass expressed concern about pressure in favor of so-called gender transitions from parents, teachers, social media, and health professionals, all of whom minimize the problems of treatment and emphasize the danger of not treating. Those health professionals who are concerned about this aggressive approach are intimidated into silence and influenced by gender change bullies and polemicists with a commitment to the aggressive gender transitioning agenda. The report notes, too, that minors are innocent and can easily be manipulated by people with agendas.

Having politely castigated the virtually non-existent research into gender dysphoria and effective responses, especially in children and adolescents, the report makes 32 recommendations for the NHS, all of which fall into three obvious categories: better research, better mental health assessments, and caution going forward with treatments.

For two decades, I have belonged to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a physician organization founded in the 1940s to oppose the socialist invasion of healthcare. I am also a member of the Do No Harm organization, which Stanley Goldfarb, a nephrologist, founded to protect American medicine from the disastrous effects of Marxist/socialist identity politics. Both organizations oppose so-called gender transition programs (see here and here). I consider gender transition activities to be political, ideological, and unethical human experimentation.

So-called transgenderism used to be about cross-dressing males, a kink or fetish that saw them get sexual pleasure when they presented themselves as women (usually highly sexualized women in revealing gowns and high heels). Some women took dressing in male clothes to the same sexual extremes.

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