Gender again. Sorry!

[monkers]

There is a richness in your content Aurora. Unfortunately Aurora, this is another rather rich example of using gender critical rhetorical framing.

There are at least three examples of narrative controlling devices in play.

1 Where a neutral statement such as ''the evidence that Cass accepted as meeting the double blind placebo controlled trials of other drug trials'' would suffice, it is instead framed an appropriate claim of ''puberty blockers hurt kids and are an evil''.

This distortion although making an appeal to the authority of scientific protocol, instead avoids contact with nuance, scientific reality, real world considerations, or engagement with ethical concerns.

2 A truthful account of the Dutch experience may have given enough room for the forum to consider, it has been lit with vivid exaggeration against a background of sinister motives - much like any other typical conspiracy theory. ''The Dutch brought in aliens from planet Trans as part of a wicked experience''. Yes that is hyperbolic exaggeration mirroring your own.

3 You've summed neutral framing of others and collapsed them in order to produce a narrative pushing the moral panic imperative of a call to arms.

The real truth is that there are many examples where the double blind protocols of drug testing can not be used due to significant concerns. The puberty blocker trial is just one example. Cass has chosen to say that puberty blockers have not been subjected to this regime. However she does not conclude that the evidence of double blind placebo controlled trials must be conducted. She is saying something quite different.


Conclusion
If there is one opening for the greatest concern that would justify an alarm level of panic, it can be found by careful analysis of the trends at which trans children who have prevented from being prescribed are otherwise harming themselves. Thereupon the competing issues of potential long-term bone mineral density reduction and life itself need to be addressed - but not by us, but by those with a multi-disciplinary team of medical scientists, endocrinologists, and psychiatrists working in a neutral environment.

 

[AuroraSaab]

1 Where a neutral statement such as ''the evidence that Cass accepted as meeting the double blind placebo controlled trials of other drug trials'' would suffice, it is instead framed an appropriate claim of ''puberty blockers hurt kids and are an evil''.

Cass has nothing to do with the forthcoming medical trial other than writing her original report. She didn't design it and isn't involved in running it.

The rest of your post is the usual verbose guff.

Conclusion
If there is one opening for the greatest concern that would justify an alarm level of panic, it can be found by careful analysis of the trends at which trans children who have prevented from being prescribed are otherwise harming themselves.

The UK suicide lead, Prof Louis Appleby, says there has been no increase in suicides of children on the waiting list since blockers were banned. The stats given out by the Good Law Project are recklessly wrong and misleading.
Only the most ghoulish adults tell children they'll kill themselves if they don't get this or that drug.

If anything we should look at the evidence we already have about those who went through UK gender clinics in the last 20 years. Let's see how many desisted and what their mental health is first.

 

[monkers]

Cass has nothing to do with the forthcoming medical trial other than writing her original report. She didn't design it and isn't involved in running it.

The rest of your post is the usual verbose guff.



The UK suicide lead, Prof Louis Appleby, says there has been no increase in suicides of children on the waiting list since blockers were banned. The stats given out by the Good Law Project are recklessly wrong and misleading.
Only the most ghoulish adults tell children they'll kill themselves if they don't get this or that drug.

If anything we should look at the evidence we already have about those who went through UK gender clinics in the last 20 years. Let's see how many desisted and what their mental health is first.

Aurora, your first sentence contain three separate inaccuracies.

First, Cass explicitly recommended that future access to puberty blockers should be restricted to a formal research‑trial framework. That recommendation is the origin of the requirement for a trial.

Second, I have not said — nor implied — that Cass has any involvement beyond her report, let alone that she designed the new trial.

Third, dismissing factual points as ‘verbose guff’ is not a substitute for addressing them.

Appleby could only evaluate the data he was given. The question is why the dataset was so limited. Was that a limitation he imposed, or a limitation in what was supplied to him? We know the dataset was incomplete because both publicly available coroner’s reports and FOI disclosures revealed additional cases that were not included.

 

[AuroraSaab]

I'll also add that when Laura Knuessenberg was busy doing the 'both sides tho'' bit and talked about Cass receiving criticism and 'at one point you couldn't travel on a bus' she wasn't talking about gender critic feminists threatening her with violence. Would have been helpful to know just which side it is that was threatening her wouldn't it?

And who did they get on the panel to discuss it? Trans activist Billy Bragg, Emily 'men can have a cervix' Thornberry, and a Tory with nothing much to say..... not much balance there.

Appleby could only evaluate the data he was given. The question is why the dataset was so limited. Was that a limitation he imposed, or a limitation in what was supplied to him? We know the dataset was incomplete because both publicly available coroner’s reports and FOI disclosures revealed additional cases that were not included.

His data was sound. It was actual under 18's on the GIDS waiting list - ie who had a diagnosis and had been referred for treatment. It wasn't the GLP's data which consisted of kids without a diagnosis, ie not even in the system and thus not yet eligible for puberty blockers, and kids who the GLP had decided were 'trans'. And even then the stats didn't bear out the claim that 'no blockers = suicide'.

How can you claim they committed suicide because they didn't get puberty blockers when they weren't even diagnosed, being seen by a GIDS clinic, or on the waiting list? Recklessly ghoulish.

 

[monkers]

I'll also add that when Laura Knuessenberg was busy doing the 'both sides tho'' bit and talked about Cass receiving criticism and 'at one point you couldn't travel on a bus' she wasn't talking about gender critic feminists threatening her with violence. Would have been helpful to know just which side it is that was threatening her wouldn't it?

And who did they get on the panel to discuss it? Trans activist Billy Bragg, Emily 'men can have a cervix' Thornberry, and a Tory with nothing much to say..... not much balance there.

Some may find your detour of alternative framing interesting, but we haven't finished our discussion of the facts. Perhaps we can get back to that?

His data was sound. It was actual under 18's on the GIDS waiting list - ie who had a diagnosis and had been referred for treatment. It wasn't the GLP's data which consisted of kids without a diagnosis, ie not even in the system and thus not yet eligible for puberty blockers, and kids who the GLP had decided were 'trans'. And even then the stats didn't bear out the claim that 'no blockers = suicide'.

How can you claim they committed suicide because they didn't get puberty blockers when they weren't even diagnosed, being seen by a GIDS clinic, or on the waiting list? Recklessly ghoulish.

Aurora, this still doesn’t answer the question I asked. There were young people waiting for care, all hoping to be seen and treated. When Cass, Atkins and Streeting shut down the pathway, that hope disappeared, and the impact on community wellbeing has been described repeatedly by parents who lost their children. Those experiences don’t vanish simply because the young people hadn’t yet reached a formal diagnosis or a place on the GIDS list.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Aurora, this still doesn’t answer the question I asked. There were young people waiting for care, all hoping to be seen and treated. When Cass, Atkins and Streeting shut down the pathway, that hope disappeared, and the impact on community wellbeing has been described repeatedly by parents who lost their children. Those experiences don’t vanish simply because the young people hadn’t yet reached a formal diagnosis or a place on the GIDS list.

This simply isn't true.
The pathway of treatment wasn't shut down at all. Children can still be referred to GIDS clinics or mental health services. They'll still receive support and treatment - it just won't include puberty blockers.

If a child hasn't even received a diagnosis how can you even say puberty blockers would have saved their lives? Who has diagnosed them as 'genuinely transgender'? A parent? Jolyon Maugham? You?

This is unevidenced ghoulish nonsense, preying on distressed children and stoking fear of suicide for which there is no evidence.