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Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK
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I don't know about the issue enough for me to comment on if she is biased or not, but I found this NYT interview (archive.org link) and she really seems to try to be playing both sides to me. Her main arguement seems to be don't treat this as an issue to resolve gender, that makes you ignore mental health/depression/other things, but with there not being the best care of that nature available for trans individuals, what avenue is left for them?
It sounds like she wants to go on about a lack of enough proof for her to stop treatment, but it also doesn't sound like she has enough proof to say it's harmful, but that doesn't seem to discourage her helping eliminate it.
Well her position doesn't seem to be that she wants to eliminate it at all. She says the evidence is too weak for a general green light. She supports it being offered but as research:
Also:
Here's the biography and credentials of the primary expert: https://cass.independent-review.uk/about-the-review/the-chair/
I can understand being angry with what's happening but I don't believe there's any question about that persons medical expertise and credentials.
Credentials sure, but Cass has also been found to follow anti Trans groups, threw out any positive study that wasn't blind (which would have been unethical to run) and the report itself was influenced by a similar report originally done in Florida under Ron DeSantis. This is a biased report that started with a conclusion and ignored any evidence that disagreed.
Well, they have lost the credible part.