Dr Hilary Cass warned of threats to safety after ‘vile’ abuse over gender services review for under-18s

The Guardian ^ | April 26 | Sammy Gecsoyler

[RandFan]

The doctor behind a landmark review of the NHS’s gender identity services for children and young people has said fears had been raised about her personal safety amid online abuse after the report’s release.

Dr Hilary Cass told the Times she wished to address the “disinformation” circulating about the findings and recommendations handed down by the Cass review when it was published on 10 April.

She said she had received online abuse in the wake of the report and had been advised to stop using public transport.

The report said the evidence base for gender medicine in young people had been thin and children had been let down by a “toxic” public discourse around gender.

“It started the day before the report came out when an influencer posted a picture of a list of papers that were apparently rejected because they were not randomised control trials.

“That list has absolutely nothing to do with either our report or any of the papers.”

Referring to the online abuse she had received, she said: “There are some pretty vile emails coming in at the moment, most of which my team is protecting me from, so I’m not getting to see them.”

She added: “I’m not going on public transport at the moment, following security advice, which is inconvenient.”

The report said the now shuttered Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, the only NHS gender identity development service for children in England and Wales, used puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones despite “remarkably weak evidence” that they improved the wellbeing of young people and concern they may harm health.

[RandFan]

Thanks to Dr Hilary Cass transitioning for those under 18 is effectively outlawed in England ,Wales and now Scotland who are shutting their clinic down after this 4 year, expert review.

We need to get this report into the hands of U.S. politicians and attorneys!

[lee martell]

I think this good doctor was perhaps somewhat naive or cloistered not to expect heavy pushback reactions to her report. Maybe it’s better she wasn’t too media savvy.
Most doctors wouldn’t have issued such a report at all because they would be afraid of the loonies obsessed with all things Trans.

[Freest Republican]

fwiw this is what I was referring to in my list of wins last night-

This is fr AI as I can’t find the original in all the pro trans garbage.

Institutional pushback is a win.

The American College of Pediatricians has critically examined transgender pediatrics. They emphasize that sex is biologically determined at conception, revealed in utero, and acknowledged at birth. It is not “assigned” based on doctors’ whims. Human sex is binary—male and female—because there are exactly two sex cells. Disorders of sex differentiation are rare congenital conditions associated with reduced fertility, but they do not represent additional sexes.

Regarding transgender youth, there is no long-term evidence demonstrating the safety or efficacy of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgeries. These interventions are experimental, and parents cannot provide informed consent for them, nor can minors assent to these procedures. In fact, many medical organizations worldwide, including the Australian College of Physicians, the Royal College of General Practitioners in the United Kingdom, and the Swedish National Council for Medical Ethics, have characterized these interventions as dangerous and experimental for children. Renowned Swedish psychiatrist Dr. Christopher Gillberg has even called pediatric transition “possibly one of the greatest scandals in medical history” and urged an “immediate moratorium” on puberty blocker drugs due to their unknown long-term effects1.

Furthermore, most children with gender incongruence will outgrow it by young adulthood, and many gender-incongruent teens struggle with other psychological diagnoses predating their gender incongruence. Counseling directed toward underlying psychological issues has been effective in helping gender-incongruent adolescents embrace their bodies without medical intervention12.

Remember, no child is born “trans,” and the claim that medical intervention is life-saving lacks long-term evidence.

[linMcHlp]

Doctor to patient:

"Congratulations, parental unit!"

"It's apparently a humanoidal-protoplasm!"

[SaveFerris]

Tagline.

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Genesis 19:4-7
King James Version

4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+19%3A4-7&version=KJV

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Genesis 19:27-28
King James Version

27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:

28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+19%3A27-28&version=KJV

[SaveFerris]

She’ll need to be wise and careful to avoid the reprobates

[maddog55]

Calling outright lies “disinformation” is part of the problem and it not only affects this issue.

Society can’t handle truth so they keep changing words so as to not offend or desensitize the issue.

Call it what is is on all issues and F’ people’s feelings.

[Gay State Conservative]

To be more precise...it’s “progressives” she’ll have to avoid.

[circlecity]

This is also intended to intimidate anyone else who might engage in such studies.

[RandFan]

She said she wont carrying out the review into adult services.

Shame.

[Phoenix8]

If anyone is interested I just had an insulting long nasty argument with someone on X. The topic?

gender ideology. He told me I WAS STUPID and IGNORANT because I didn’t feel boys could be girls and vice versa.

I even pointed out chromosomes etc and he just got nastier. I think he was a Brit or Aussie because he kept calling me “Chap”.

I just sometimes can’t believe the madness I’m seeing in the world and it’s all accelerating.

[RandFan]

At least you won’t get banned now from that platform for having that point of view

A few years ago you’d be gone.

[Phoenix8]

I think Twitter has definitely changed.

What I’ve heard, for what’s that worth, is that it’s much more fair now. But some of the old leftist admin and monitors have stayed and hid their biased opinions. Reddy maybe that is what got you, one of the closeted commies acting fair to the upper management?

the worst of all in my experience is CL or FB. I’m permanently banned on Craigs List for arguing with vicious leftists. FB has put me on temp bans.

[Reddy]

I left FB during 2016 election because I saw how biased it was.

I left Twitter after I was suspended for saying men can’t be women.

I left Youtube tonight when I found my identity was used for login... not authorized.

I deleted “anonymous” Reddit account tonight.

I really expect that eventually my real name will be associated with this account.

I haven’t said anything that I wouldn’t say in real life. Maybe that is the point. Maybe I don’t want it broadcast across the universe. Maybe I want the choice to do so. Or not.

[Phoenix8]

I can respect that opinion.

I forgot Quora. I was temporarily banned for cursing a leftist. So what is wrong you might say I deserved it? No he cursed me FIRST. I pointed out to Quora and even made copies of the conversation and highlighted the curse words and time stamps to prove he started it. Guess what Quora replied?:

“you should have done the right thing and not responded”. then I demanded he be temp banned as well. He was never banned, I was for maybe a month.

You know in a septic tank where human waste goes? A crust of material and TP floats on top—-that is social media. Rotten, stinking, leftist scum that wage a war against conservatives and sway elections by spreading pro-Dem positive news and blocking anything negative like the Hunter Biden story. Meanwhile they flood peoles feed with anti-Trump news of every sort (as well as other cons).

ONLY because of Elon Musk is Twitter/X now relatively free and neutral.

[Reddy]

“You know in a septic tank where human waste goes? A crust of material and TP floats on top—-that is social media.”

Perfect.