Alex Darby // darbotron🛹Dec 16, 2024
Jenny List

There's a parliamentary petition for an independent review of the Cass report into gender medical services for young people. It's a highly problematic document commissioned by the previous government and shaped by anti-trans viewpoints.

If you're a Brit, you can sign it, whether you live in the UK or not. Please do.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700217

Petition: An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services

We believe that trans healthcare should be based on unbiased research that is peer reviewed. We think that the Cass review's findings have led to restrictive practices that are being directly felt by transgender children.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
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Show threadJenny ListDec 16, 2024
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Show threadDr Footleg (he/him)Dec 16, 2024
@JennyList Signed.
Show threadJenny ListDec 16, 2024
@drfootleg thanks
Show threadEstarriol, Terrorist DragonDec 16, 2024

@JennyList

the Cass Report is a Political report on a medical issue. It is unfit for purpose.

It is the equivalent of a politician deciding the polio vaccine is bad.

Show threadChloé RaccoonDec 16, 2024
@JennyList @mattgrayyes Can't remember if I boosted it on Friday when I first saw it, but definitely signed it.
Show threadC.S.StrowbridgeDec 16, 2024

@JennyList

I'm not a Brit, but I will boost it and hopefully other Brits will see it.

Show threadAngela ScholderDec 17, 2024
@csstrowbridge @JennyList Same.
Show threada fading echoDec 16, 2024

@JennyList
It and its contents are published.
Anyone who wishes can review it independently or en masse.
I've not seen anyone do that.
Not even for a section of it.
Review is encouraged, desirable.

What's the first error?

Show thread·J MoppDec 17, 2024
@midgephoto @JennyList For starters, Cass ignored about a hundred papers, claiming they lack rigour, while at the same time opining that autism and porn is what makes people trans. Secondly, academic institutions such as Yale have produced evidence-based critiques of the Cass Review, tearing the review apart as fundamentally bad science. Thirdly, countries such as Australia, France, and Japan have had their own reviews into gender care and come up with the opposite recommendations to Cass.
Show thread·J MoppDec 17, 2024
@midgephoto @JennyList Fourthly, the Cass Review has been taken as gospel in the UK, and as cover to implement some of the most regressive policies in western Europe, even when the Cass Review itself states such such policies would be going too far. The UK seems happy to take the Cass Review at face value, while ignoring all the red flags. It's the MMR vaccine scandal of our generation, and like Wakefield, Cass's bad science will have ramifications for years to come.
Show thread·J MoppDec 17, 2024
@midgephoto @JennyList As an aside, the BMA is doing exactly what you suggest, and is trying to conduct an independent review into it, yet people are criticising the decision saying it's not their place as a doctors' union. If they were confident in its conclusions, why would they suggest that?
Show threadJoshDec 16, 2024
@JennyList Signed!
Show threadJason GooljarDec 16, 2024
@JennyList seems like conservatives/ the Right/ around the world have jumped on the anti-trans bandwagon that we see here in the US.
Show threadtroy_friz_zellDec 16, 2024

@lostarlingtonian @JennyList

Bigots got to hate someone.

Show threadEd DaviesDec 16, 2024

@JennyList Signed.

BTW, you can also sign these petitions if you're not a “Brit” (British Citizen) if you're resident in the UK. Dunno, but I imagine that means indefinite leave to remain or the like.

Show threadMx VerdaDec 16, 2024

@edavies

ILR mentioned! Hello, yes?
I have been signing these since forever

@JennyList

Show threadJules 🍺Dec 16, 2024
@JennyList signed
Show threadSimon BrookeDec 16, 2024
@JennyList Thanks! Signed.
Show threadAlanna 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Dec 16, 2024
@JennyList will try to remember to sign after work.
Show threadDr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶Dec 16, 2024
@JennyList @pluralistic
Signed
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Dec 16, 2024
@JennyList Done
Show threadMatthew WaltonDec 16, 2024
@JennyList signed. The uncritical acceptance of this by Labour is despicable.
Show threadJenny ListDec 16, 2024

@mathw This, exactly.

In the future they will want to be all over us, and we will not let them forget this when that happens.

Show threadconcretedogDec 16, 2024
@JennyList done.