The Trans Rights Debate

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IMO the trans rights debate should never have been a party political one. By doing so, it has polarised and radicalised what should have been an incremental societal shift and human-rights based progression, similar to the LGB experience.

Time will tell of course, but the party political aspect has definitely undermined political support for some parties, and has perhaps set the moderate progression of trans rights back quite a bit.

https://cass.independent-review.uk/w...Accessible.pdf

The most common reaction from cheerleaders of trans ideology has been to meekly plead ignorance. Dr Hillary Cass's report into the NHS's treatment of gender-confused kids has radically transformed the trans debate, exposing 'gender-affirming care' as a dangerous experiment. Now, the disciples of trans ideology are scrambling to save face.

The fact is, it is incredibly difficult for trans activists to obscure their roles in this scandal. Cass's report reveals what was really going on inside the NHS's Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). She concludes that the 'gender affirming ' medical treatments it provided, like puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, are based on 'wholly inadequate' evidence.

Doctors are usually cautious when adopting new treatments, but Cass says 'quite the reverse happened in the field of gender care for children'. Instead, thousands of children were put on an unproven medical pathway. Worse still, medical professionals seemed largely uninterested in uncovering the side effects and long-term risks of these drugs.

It truly is a scandal that children and youngsters were put on a pathway to medicalisation and then promptly abandoned.