Sherri_Ingrey on Nostr: https://archive.ph/Hegme "The committee had chosen to hold a one-off session on the ...
https://archive.ph/Hegme "The committee had chosen to hold a one-off session on the “Evidence base on the safety and effectiveness of puberty blockers”. This seemed strange given the recent four-year review into youth gender services that looked at that very question. Surely, therefore, you’d call the person who led that process, Dr Hilary Cass, as a witness? Apparently not. Or a member of the team from the University of York who carried out the independent, peer-reviewed study of the evidence base for the use of puberty blockers to treat gender-related distress? This group had concluded: “There is a lack of high-quality research assessing puberty suppression in adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria/incongruence. No conclusions can be drawn about the impact on gender dysphoria, mental and psychosocial health or cognitive development. Bone health and height may be compromised during treatment.” None of them were invited either.
Instead, Sarah Owen, the committee’s Labour chair, chose to hear from the former clinical director of the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids, the Tavistock children’s service roundly criticised and closed down as a consequence of the Cass Review); a professor in bioethics who has argued for close to two decades that it is unethical to deny children treatment with puberty blockers; and an emeritus professor of endocrinology who, while no doubt an excellent endocrinologist, has never worked with gender-distressed children, nor contributed to the research in this area.
Throughout the session, consultant paediatric endocrinologist Professor Gary Butler, who ran the endocrine clinic at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) which prescribed puberty blockers, seemed to be talking about a completely different Tavistock clinic to the one that was closed by NHS England. We know from Gids’ own data, CQC inspections and clinicians who carried out the assessments of young people, that these could be completed – at times – over just two or three appointments. Yet Butler talked of each child receiving an “extensive review”."
Instead, Sarah Owen, the committee’s Labour chair, chose to hear from the former clinical director of the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids, the Tavistock children’s service roundly criticised and closed down as a consequence of the Cass Review); a professor in bioethics who has argued for close to two decades that it is unethical to deny children treatment with puberty blockers; and an emeritus professor of endocrinology who, while no doubt an excellent endocrinologist, has never worked with gender-distressed children, nor contributed to the research in this area.
Throughout the session, consultant paediatric endocrinologist Professor Gary Butler, who ran the endocrine clinic at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) which prescribed puberty blockers, seemed to be talking about a completely different Tavistock clinic to the one that was closed by NHS England. We know from Gids’ own data, CQC inspections and clinicians who carried out the assessments of young people, that these could be completed – at times – over just two or three appointments. Yet Butler talked of each child receiving an “extensive review”."