Opinion
As The BFD has reported, the The Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People, or Cass Review as it’s better known, is shaking the rickety foundations of the Gender tower. Dr Hilary Cass has found that there is no good evidence supporting the fad for so-called “gender affirming care” (a double-oxymoron, since it neither affirms the reality of the patient’s gender, nor does much to care for them).
One of the most startling parts — at least, to those who haven’t been paying attention — of the Cass Review is its evidence of the explosion of children referred for gender treatments. In Britain, from barely ten patients per year when its “Gender Identity Service” (GIS) was established in 1989, referrals exploded after 2009, from fifty per year to over one thousand seven hundred by 2016. According to Cass, there was “no simple explanation” for the vast increase in the number of children seeking gender treatments.
Really?
Does the phrase “social contagion” ring any bells? Especially when the data also shows that another suspicious trend occurred. Prior to the mid-2000s, “gender diverse” children were almost exclusively boys. Almost no girls were treated by GIS. By 2016, twice as many girls were. By 2019, girls were out-trannying boys, three to one. Notably, too, cases of girls with “gender dysphoria” tend to occur in clusters, at schools and among friends’ circles.
It’s like hula hoops or fidget spinners, only with surgical and chemical mutilation.
Like any other fad, almost all children would grow out of it, if left alone.
The new report cites studies performed by the University of York which show that puberty blockers did suppress puberty, but also compromised bone density and found “no changes in gender dysphoria or body satisfaction.” The available evidence does not suggest that hormone treatment reduced the risk of death by suicide, according to the Cass Report […]
“The current evidence base suggests that children who present with gender incongruence at a young age are most likely to desist before puberty, although for a small number the incongruence will persist,” reads the report.
National Review
The findings of the Cass Review naturally call into question so-called gender treatment at clinics in Australia.
But good luck finding out what they’re up to in Tasmania.
One can only assume situation exists here in Tasmania, where the Tasmanian Gender Service treats gender-diverse children and young people, and those experiencing gender dysphoria – the condition of feeling uncomfortable with one’s biological sex. We can only asssume, because the TGS is highly secretive, and previous attempts to gain information on the numbers of children treated via Right to Information requests have failed.
It publishes no annual report, is not mentioned in the state budget papers.
This shadowy organisation has almost no web presence, either.
It has a single webpage under the Department of Health providing basic information about the services offered.
Surprise, surprise, the “treatments” offered are exactly those lambasted by the Cass Review.
According to that website, TGS treats gender-diverse children and those experiencing gender dysphoria using “gender affirming medical interventions” such as puberty blockers and gender affirming hormones.
So, why the shroud of secrecy? What are they up to that they don’t want the Tasmanian taxpayer, let alone parents of vulnerable children, to know about?
The feminist group Women Speak Tasmania has […] backed a call by Dr Philip Morris, president of the National Association of Practising Psychiatrists (NAPP) for an independent investigation into treatments being used for vulnerable children struggling with gender dysphoria […]
Many transgender activists will be critical of the Cass review and organisations such as WST, but ultimately they are calling only for more evidence on gender treatments, and more transparency.
Launceston Examiner
Which are the last thing the “transgender” activists want anyone to have. How will they get their hooks into children, otherwise? They’ll have to go back to lurking in parks in tatty raincoats.