RunRagged wrote:
As the Cass report and other deep dives and systemtic reviews of "gender affirming care" for youth all show, there is no credible evidence that allowing children and adolescents to socially "transition" and then putting them on so-called "puberty blockers" or other gonad inhibiting drugs and cross-sex hormones - and removing their healthy body parts - reduces young people's depression and anxiety, improves their self-image, makes it more likely for them to stay in school, causes them to fit in better with their peers, and lowers their likelihood of self-harm, social withdrawal, and suicide.
On the contrary, the Cass report found that even "social transition" tends to be more harmful than helpful.
The summary you posted doesn't say anything like that. If you read the whole report, please point to the page number you are referring to.
The summary says the following:
-- There have been many more birth-registered females being referred in adolescence, marking a shift from the cohort that these services have traditionally seen; that is, birth-registered males presenting in childhood, on whom the previous clinical approach to care was based.
-- The controversy surrounding the use of medical treatments has taken focus away from what the individualised care and treatment is intended to achieve for individuals seeking support from NHS gender services.
BPJ, the subject of this thread, is a "birth-registered male presenting in childhood" on whom the previous clinical approach was based. The report says this approach may not be appropriate for "birth-registered females referred in adolescence." It also says each child deserves individualized care and treatment. So what someone like BPJ needs is "individualized care and treatment" tailored for a birth-registered male who expressed gender incongruence in early childhood. In other words, the group of people the previous clinical approach was based on
The summary also says:
Services should establish a separate pathway for pre-pubertal children and their families. ensuring that they are prioritised for early discussion about how parents can best support their child in a balanced and non-judgemental way. When families/carers are making decisions about social transition of pre-pubertal children, services should ensure that they can be seen as early as possible by a clinical professional with relevant experience.
In other words, someone like BPJ should see a clinical professional with relevant experience as early as possible so that they can build balanced and non-judgemental support. This allows the clinical professional to spend very long time to assess whether the child needs medical transition.
And I don't take words of a comedian on YouTube as the authoritative interpretation of the report.
