TRIGGERnometry - The Cass Review Shames the Gay-Rights Establishment

Episode Date: April 20, 2024

‘Gender-affirming care’ has always been gay conversion therapy by another name. The Cass Review is an Independent review of gender identity services for children and young people. Adapted from Andrew’s Substack. This and other articles will be made available there first. https://andrewdoyle.substack.com/ Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here:  Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [e-mail] Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/#mailing... Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media:  @triggerpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ready for the excuses. For years now, those who have sounded the alarm over the dangers of gender-affirming pediatric treatment have been monstered as bigots, hateful, transphobic, and even fascist. Now their concerns have been entirely vindicated by the cast review, and those most responsible for the monstering are already attempting to wriggle their way out of accepting responsibility. We can expect much more of this as further revelations come to light. Take Stonewall, the charity most culpable for spreading this toxic ideology. In a statement posted recently on X, it appeared to endorse the review's findings, even quoting approvingly Dr. Hilary Cass's plea to remember the children and young people trying to live their lives and the families, carers and clinicians doing their best to support them. What can one say about such serpentine sleight of tongue?

Perhaps the actor James Dreyfus, one who has felt the full brunt of the wrath of gender ideologues, put it best when he wrote, the absolute fucking nerve of these people. Mermaid CEO, Lauren Stoner, is another in the running for the Brassneck Award, appearing on Sky News to claim that, we're not medical experts, we don't advocate for any pathway. Mermaids made the same claim in the tribunal, it initiated,

in a failed attempt to strip LGBT alliance of its charitable status, and yet in leaked emails, it was discovered to have given advice to the now disgraced gender identity development service, at the Tabastock Clinic. Most notably, Mermaids had offered support in the drafting of an NHS service specification. And Mermaid's website currently claims that puberty blockers are an internationally recognised, safe, reversible healthcare option, even though there is mounting evidence of the dangers of these drugs. One of the findings of the Cass Review is that there is no evidence for the efficacy of puberty blockers. Rather than being a pause in which young people can take time

to figure out their gender identity, in almost all cases they lead on to cross-sex hormones and, in some cases, irreversible surgery. During Stoner's interview for Sky News, she was also quick to remind us that Mermaids has been supporting trans young people and their families for nearly 30 years. What she neglected to mention is that until the arrival of former CEO Susie Green, a woman who took her son to Thailand on his 16th birthday to have him castrated,

Mermaids actually offered sensible advice to parents of children who are struggling with their gender. A leaflet produced by the charity in the year 2000 is more in line with the watchful waiting approach favoured by many paediatric therapists. This is what it said. Gender identity disorders in infancy, childhood and adolescents are complex and have varied causes. In the majority of cases, the eventual outcome will be homosexuality or bisexuality, but often there will be a heterosexual outcome, as some gender. gender issues can be caused by a bereavement, a dysfunctional family life, or rarely by abuse.

Only a small proportion of cases will result in a transsexual outcome. But even mermaids once held this position shows the extent to which gender identity ideology drives well-intentioned people away from the truth, and a reminder that this belief system has taken hold remarkably quickly. Both mermaids and Stonewall were mentioned by Tavistock whistleblower Dr David Bell as being chiefly to blame for the current climate of making people afraid of even listening to another view. To this we might add groups such as gendered intelligence, the LGBT Foundation, and the online Pink News, which has published defamatory pieces about those who have objected to the rise of this ideology. The irreversible surgical malpractice that has left many

young people sterile and eliminated their sexual function can be put down to the intimidation that has been stoked by groups who claim to advocate for LGBT rights. And what are the private practices, those who evaded the NHS's recent ban on puberty blockers? Of course, there are financial and ideological incentives for these groups to dismiss the Cass Review, and so we shouldn't be surprised that Dr. Aidan Kelly from Private Clinic Gender Plus appeared on Navarra Media to argue that the evidence demanded by Cass is neither deliverable nor desirable. Host Michael Walker seemed to think that the figure of approximately 1,000 patients in 10 years prescribed puberty blockers was too low to merit concern, and that some of these issues

have been politicised in a way that they don't need to be. One wonders how many instances of testicular atrophy, increased risk of cancer, osteoporosis or impaired brain development in healthy children should be considered acceptable. Why are we even countenancing ruining young people's lives through the unevanced, experimental and ideological medicalization of problems that almost certainly require a psychotherapeutic approach. Navarra media might want to start preparing its own excuses too, given that it published an article in December 2021, offering advice on how to deceive medical professionals in order to be prescribed opposite sex hormones. I'm not suggesting you tell any especially big fibs, the article says, but maybe finesse your story

into one that's likely to be received with the least amount of confusion. And bear that in mind with the psychiatrist too, you're not here to make friends, you're here to get hormones. This kind of duplicity has been widespread. Dr. Hilary Cass has revealed to the British Medical Journal that children have been coached on what to say and what not to say in order to be prescribed puberty blockers. They're told not to say they're unsure about their sexuality,

not to say they've been abused, because it's so high stakes at that point, she said. We have known for a long time that the overwhelming majority of children referred to the Tavistock were same-sex attracted and that gender non-conformity in youth is a reliable predictor of homosexuality in later life. This has been confirmed in the final report by Dr. Cass, which found that 89% of girls and 81% of boys referred to Jids were either homosexual or bisexual. The NHS has been practising gay conversion therapy in plain sight. We also know that those who have been abused are disproportionately represented among the patients.

One study cited in the final cast report shows that one in five children referred to gender services have suffered sexual or physical abuse. In other words, rather than experiencing some kind of esoteric mismatch between body and gendered soul, most of these kids are simply gay or troubled. And yet they're being coached to lie about their actual problems to satisfy the expectations of ideologues. These people have snake oil to sell, and if a few children have to suffer, then so. be it. Throughout the cast review, the lack of evidence for all of these treatments is continually emphasised. The very notion of gender medicine is underpinned by the belief that we each have a gender identity, what Helen Joyce has described as something like a sexed soul. In this, she is supported by trans campaigners like Julia Serrano, who calls it a subconscious sex. Or the barrister

Robin Moira White, who on my show Free Speech Nation said it was an essence of male or female. This amounts to a faith in the supernatural and is a key doctrine of the new state religion of gender. It goes without saying that people are entitled to their beliefs, but the idea that a metaphysical hypothesis should form the basis of NHS practice is, on reflection, extremely bizarre. One of the reasons why this has been allowed to happen is that so many have been duped into accepting that this quasi-religion has some basis in science. This is largely down to the influence of W Path, the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, a body established in 1979 that is recognised as the leading global authority in this area and one that has pushed

for the normalisation of the gender-affirming approach. Its standards of care have formed the basis of policies throughout the Western world, including the NHS, and it is explicitly critiqued in the cast review for its lack of developmental rigour. In early March, the credibility of W-Path was shattered when internal messages and videos, which had been leaked to journalist Michael Schellenberger were made public. A full report was written by journalist Mia Hughes for the Environmental Progress Think Tank. It was called the W-Path Files, pseudoscientific surgical and hormonal experiments on children,

adolescents and vulnerable adults. It revealed a general lack of ethical and professional standards. There are messages proving that surgeons and therapists are aware that a significant proportion of young people referred to gender clinicians suffer from mental health problems. Some specialists associated with W. Path are proceeding with treatment in the knowledge that no consent has been secured

from either the children or those directly responsible for their well-being. They have also withheld from patients' details of potential lifelong complications or continued down this path knowing that the children do not understand the implications. But then how could a prepubescent or even adolescent child fully grasp

the concepts of lifelong sterility or a loss of sexual function. The revelations of the WPath files should have been the end of gender affirming care, but so deeply rooted is this ideology in all of our major institutions that it was always going to take a lot more. The BBC has yet to report on the WPath files, which is perhaps to be expected from an organisation that has actively contributed to the promotion of gender identity ideology. In one BBC film, a woman is seen telling a group of children

that there are over a hundred genders. I have sent five requests to the BBC press office over a period of more than a month to find out why the WPath files have been ignored. I have yet to receive a response. But for those who were interested, I presented a two-hour special on the W-Path files on my show,

Free Speech Nation on GB News. The link to that show is in the description. The problems do not end with the BBC. Politicians on both sides of the house have been complicit in the spread of gender identity ideology and its destructive consequences. When Liz Trust tabled a debate on her Health and Equality Act Amendment Bill in March, a motion which raised concerns about the social transitioning of children in schools

and how private companies are evading the NHS ban on puberty blockers, Labour and Conservative MPs spent four hours filibustering about ferrets in order to prevent the discussion. Their ignorance of this ideology has made them its cheerleaders. We should not expect many of these people to admit that they were mistaken. The psychological consequences of accepting that one has been complicit in gay conversion therapy and the medicalisation of healthy children is perhaps too much for many to bear. Since details of the cast review were published, Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman, a woman who has criticised biology school textbooks for stating that sex is binary

and who has suggested that children as young as eight should be able to transition, she's already decried the contents. Trans health care is vital to protecting and supporting the rights and lives of trans people she posted on X, adding that her party will oppose any moves to increase the age of accessing gender affirming care to 25. Of course, the cash review makes no such recommendations. Rather, it says that NHS England should establish follow-through services for 17 to 25-year-olds at each of the regional centres, either by extending the range of the regional children and young people's service or through linked services to ensure continuity of care and support

at a potentially vulnerable stage in their journey. This kind of moderate caution is certainly commendable given that the adult brain is not fully developed until the age of 25. Of course, it's too late for some. One D-transitioner posted the following on X. Had the recommendations from the Cass Review being implemented when I transitioned, in particular the recommendation of waiting until the age of 25, I would never have transitioned.

I grew out of gender dysphoria by the age of 22, but had my genitals amputated by then. Although MPs sought to prevent a debate on the problem of private gender clinics, perhaps the cast review's criticism of these clinics for pressurising GPs into prescribing the drugs will change all of that. Not surprisingly, these unscrupulous practitioners are defiant. A statement from gender GP has vowed to ignore the recommendations of the cast review and continue with its unevanced gender-affirming approach,

according to the W-Path Standards of Care. The revelations from the W-Path files means nothing to the high priests of this cult. And let's not forget that the current version of the W-Path Standards of Care includes a chapter on Unix, which urges medical practitioners to perform castrations on patients who so identify.

Undoing the influence of such pseudoscience is going to be a long and arduous process. The ideas are too in trend. which explains why even the cast review has adopted some of the language of the ideology, for example, cisgender, or references to sex assigned at birth. Besides, too much is at stake for individuals who have promoted these beliefs. Already commentators like James O'Brien are blaming the toxicity of those who have tried to warn people of the dangers over the last decade.

We can expect similar revisionist attempts from others who have failed to speak out, and no doubt the culture war will we blame. by those most responsible for waging it. Ultimately, those responsible must be held accountable. Stonewall should finally be driven out of public life. Whereas the charity once fought for gay people, it now actively works against them. There should be an investigation into how it was allowed to maintain its influence in major institutions even after it shift away from gay rights and towards an anti-gay agenda. Any government departments and quangos still associated with Stonewall should sever all ties immediately.

Both the Conservatives and Labour ought to ditch their commitment to a ban on trans-conversion therapy and recognise that this will effectively stymie the therapeutic efforts of medical practitioners to support gender non-conforming children. Moreover, there should be a ban on private clinics who intend to persist with W-Path guidelines in spite of Dr Cass' recommendations. Above all, we need to ensure that the well-being of children is never again sacrificed on the altar of ideology. This video was based on an article I wrote for Spiked Online, but most of my articles appear on my substack, a long time before they appear as videos here on trigonometry.

So if you're interested, please do check out my substack. The link is in the description.