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World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Files

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Except Dr Hilary Cass is a paediatrician with years of experience, not a politician. Since when do medical associations get to disregard the lasest evidence because of an ideological stance? It's concerning that they think this is acceptable.

    From what I've been reading, the majority of doctors are in favour of the ban, as they generally like to follow the scientific evidence. I'm sure there were doctors years ago who were outraged that they couldn't lobotomise people anymore but now it's widely accepted that they were wrong.

    As usual the activist minority are throwing a tantrum but I don't think it will work anymore.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 857 ✭✭✭greyday


    Are you for real trying to pass off one person calling the ban terrible as a game changer of some sort, The BMA is a trade union, the person calling the ban terrible is a junior doctor specialising in mental health and yes we are to assume they are not authorative in all medical matters, they may have expertise in specific matters but unlikely to be gender dyasporia experts that do not require outside expertise.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,140 ✭✭✭plodder


    From that BBC article

    The stance has been criticised by one of the BMA’s council members, Dr Emma Runswick.

    Earlier this week, she said on X that it was a “terrible political decision which will cause incredible harm to trans people”.

    From wikipedia, it seems she's from a strongly political background herself and is LGBT. I'm sure there's a variety of different opinions on the BMA council. Hopefully, they come to a sensible consensus.

    “Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt” - Carl Jung



  • Posts: 6,626 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think you will be surprised at what the BMA will announce, but I won't.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭aero2k


    You lambasted the Conservatives for politicising this issue; on that occasion it was pointed out to you that that kind of goes with the territory for a political party. The same applies here. The precautionary principle surely applies: given the known adverse effects of these drugs, and no scientific support for the claimed benefits, then they should not be administered.

    Can you provide any meaningful scientific evidence to support the reversal of the ban, or are you advocating a course of action based on politics/ideology?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 857 ✭✭✭greyday


    It will be given as much credibility as SIPTU giving an opinion on brain surgery, I hope you are right and they show they are willing to use children to experiment to further an ideology which has been destroyed in the last 12 months.



  • Posts: 6,626 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Thee BMA is not SIPTU and your attempt to discredit the opinions of the representative body of the British medical establishment is a bit pathetic really.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 857 ✭✭✭greyday


    They are a trade union, SIPTU is a representative body for their members, do you get the similarities?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,444 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau




  • Posts: 6,626 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Your smugness will prove your undoing.

    Without the transphobic agenda driving Tory policy the government will ask the experts in the field and NHS policy will fall into line with what the relevant consultants advise. Since not even Dr Cass advocated a puberty blocker ban you will see this fall quietly when the research projects come on line. This is what I have predicted all along.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,231 ✭✭✭✭volchitsa


    No actually this is not what you predicted at all: you said they would just declare all planned treatments to be experiments and just go on as before.

    "If a woman cannot stand in a public space and say, without fear of consequences, that men cannot be women, then women have no rights at all." Helen Joyce



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Here's a few quotes from people put on puberty blockers who later went on to detransition. It's a horror show and it will all come crashing down very soon when more and more individuals speak out. This is what you are advocating for under the guise of "being kind". I don't know how anyone can justify creating stunted child like adults who will never be able to reach their full potential, physically or mentally

    Because of puberty blockers(started before natural Puberty) my penis and testicles never developed the proper growth (they actually shrunk substantially and irreversibly from childlike to full on infant like) yes I want to die just typing out this painful truth. Because I was never exposed to my body’s natural hormones and instead put on synthetic cross sex hormones soon after blockers. When I was 18 and started the process to get a vaginoplasty, I was told that I simply didn’t have the anatomy needed to create a neovagina because my puberty was stopped and I never gave my body the chance to fully grow.

    I basically have a micro penis and testicles and do not have enough “material” to do anything reasonable with it. I was told they could give me a neovagina but it would only be aesthetic. I would have effectively ZERO vaginal depth, I’d be lucky if they could even make it look like there was an “entry”. I saw two different surgeons in two different states for a second opinion. One said I could basically have a Barbie vagina, it would look aesthetically pleasing but never be functional. I also have never and will NEVER achieve orgasm.

    This is an incredibly HARD and embarrassing and awful thing to explain but it’s the truth and I find it important to tell all the ugly parts

    now have to live with the body I destroyed forever. I will never go through my full female puberty. I will never experience my teenage years as a girl and I will forever be harmed by a choice I should NEVER have been allowed to make. I just don't know if I can live with it and it haunts me every waking moment

    My transition was different than most in that I was put on hormone blockers when I was very young, right as I started puberty (11?), and then female hormones at age 14.

    As you can imagine, for someone on this subreddit, the results are devastating.

    I certainly appear different than most men my age. Due to the hormone blockers, I never developed past tanner stage 2. As a younger teen, my body was hairless and I had no sexual desires at all. As an adult now, I'm 5'3". My genitals are extremely underdeveloped, I grew breasts, I wear a men's size 5 shoe, etc...

    I've come to terms with the idea of being male itself, and detransitioning, but the problem is doing it while looking the way I do now.



  • Posts: 6,626 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Detransitioning is not the normal outcome and extremely rare. No amount of prompting those rare occurrence will change the reality for the majority.



  • Posts: 6,626 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This has not happened yet because the experiment protocol has not yet been decided. I predicted and continue to predict that when the protocol is decided more people will receive puberty blockers in order to establish a robust statistical analysis.

    The prescription of puberty blockers under the NHS is so rare that a robust data set would not be possible otherwise. Also since treatment for transgender children is been expanded more children will be offered membership of the experimental program.

    Puberty blockers are the horror story you tell to frighten old ladies.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    That's not what the evidence says. Even if it is that rare, how many people affected like that do you think is acceptable? I don't think any. Even if those people didn't detransition, they would still be living with a body that isn't fully functional sexually or physically because of what was done to them. Puberty is essential for your brain and body, it's not something that you have to "consent" to, which is the latest line that I'm seeing being pedalled, but something essential to becoming a functional human adult



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭aero2k


    The more I learn about all this, the more distressing it is. So many things don't occur to me until they're explained, and then the implications sink in. For instance, an adult male who has his testicles removed is still left with adult male bones, muscles and organs which need an adult male level of testosterone to function. It's one thing to administer supplements to correct a deficiency in a sick body, quite another to deliberately create that deficiency in a healthy body.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 30,597 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    If the BMA _don't_ vote to discredit the Cass report will you accept it?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,337 ✭✭✭Large bottle small glass


    Most of the noise is from a trans activist on the BMA board, who is a former trade unionist and a complete political appointment.

    The chairman has a pair of pride braces in his profile photo, so the chances of a non science based decision aren't zero.

    Following on from the Cass report with the adults in the room watching including their insurers one would be hopefully of a reasoned decision based on the best scientific evidence available being made.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭aero2k


    @Shoog: Any thoughts on the ethics of all this proposed experimentation? Would only trans kids be included? If you believe puberty blockers are essential, then is it not unethical to deny them to half the subjects? If you believe they are harmful then is it not unethical to administer them to the other half? If you are open to the possibility that the research will show that some children at least will be damaged by these treatments (and if you're not open to all possible outcomes then why research at all, though tbf WPATH have form in that regard), what do you plan to do with those children?

    I don't have the answers, I think it needs to be worked out a bit more.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Exactly. And the detrimental effects of high testosterone levels in female bodies are well known. It's not a decision that should be made lightly and certainly not as a child



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 857 ✭✭✭greyday


    It is banned, it will quietly be completely shelved to save the monsters that carried out this so called research to begin with, it is known that 80-90% of kids that suffer from gender dysphoria go on to be gay rather than transgender, there can be no justification to give these kids puberty blockers as the experts have stated they cannot tell which kids will go on to be trans.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Shoog asserts something without any evidence at all?

    I am shocked I tells ya!



  • Posts: 6,626 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Cass report has issues and I am sure they will highlight them in their statement.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭aero2k


    How about you tell us what the issues are, in a scientific manner?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 857 ✭✭✭greyday


    I have a feeling Shoog is part of a type of trans cult, seems to think she has information that has not been released to the public yet, thankfully since the Cass report the whistleblowers from Tavistock have given others the confidence to speak out, they themselves were vilified for speaking out about what was really happening in that clinic, the genie is out of the bottle and no amount of branding people transphobic will stop those people and others from speaking out again, those doing the branding will be outing themselves for all to see who is behind the horrific experiments carried out on mostly gay children.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    The very first paragraph of the BBC article says ….. "British Medical Association (BMA) leaders have met to discuss the approach being taken to children and young people struggling with their gender identity."

    And there you have it, discussing how to medicalise a "gender identity" which isn't even a provable thing, for there are no blood tests to prove that your gender is anything other than the one you were born with. A gender (identity) is a frame of mind, its a cloak or a dress you put on, a persona that you portray to yourself and others (which is fine, no problem with that), each to their own …..

    I don't however agree with giving drugs to physically healthy kids (to block their puberty) as these kids need no medical physical intetvention whatsoever! so I stand with Wes Streeting & Rosie Duffield 100% on this.

    Cass must be applied and implemented across the board without question.

    The release of the WPATH files and the Cass review are very powerful tools in our fight against a (very powerful) yet non scientific ideology based on feelings and thoughts of identity outside reality.

    "My daughter says she feels like a boy", right, give her puberty blockers, then cross sex hormones, then at sixteen a double mastectomy, and you're nearly home!

    It's like we're fighting something akin to a sinister religious belief system.



  • Posts: 6,626 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This has been discussed here, your late to the party so go back and read the thread.



  • Posts: 6,626 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    For all those champions of the Cass Report please tell me where she recommended the banning of puberty blockers. Here's a clue she never did, and even clarified here position of supporting them where the clinician considered them necessary. She recommended a detailed clinical trial by the NHS to improve the clinical evidence for their use - which as I said cannot happen if a ban is in place. So in brief Cass is not a supporter of this ban and the BMA is correct to highlight that this is not a clinically sound decision and will harm patients.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,231 ✭✭✭✭volchitsa


    That's not how medical research works though. You can't just write off a small number of people permanently harmed like that. The question of consent is crucial.

    Sodium valproate given to pregnant women with epilepsy illustrates this. Many women were actually taken off their usual drug when planning a pregnancy because SV was believed to be more effective during pregnancy than some of the other anti epileptics. But it's very hard to run a large-scale ethical trial on this during pregnancy, so this was mainly determined from observational studies. A bit like puberty blockers for GD. And more than 90% of the women taking SV were fine. It may have enabled them to have children safely, given the risks of epileptic seizures during pregnancy.

    But still, the small percentage of women whose children were harmed by sodium valproate are now getting massive compensation because the suggestion that harm might be caused was first made some years before that information was put on the information sheets. IOW, the women weren't informed of what was merely a hypothetical risk and anyway there was also a high risk with all the effective alternatives - including the risk of taking nothing. And it's going to be very hard to argue that 14 year olds can consent to permanent consequences as adults that normal puberty just does not entail (unlike the pill, which is far lower risk than its alternative, pregnancy, especially at 14 or 15).

    (Not that I expect your certainty to be shaken by anything really, going by your determination to dismiss Cass.)

    "If a woman cannot stand in a public space and say, without fear of consequences, that men cannot be women, then women have no rights at all." Helen Joyce



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭briangriffin


    Can you please explain how you know it is extremely rare? Tavistock did not do any follow up study on the thousands of children who passed through its doors despite the head of Tavistock acknowledging what they were doing was completely experimental. The only study done in Tavistock was on what happened after puberty blockers were given, 98% of children went onto cross sex hormones. We only know this because a court order was made obliging Tavistock to publish the study for the common good, they did not want to publish the study because it completely obliterated the "pause" to decide narrative.



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