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Maybe we should start saying “discredited” instead of “criticized “ when referring to the Cass mis/disinformation publication. “Criticized” makes it sound too much like it’s an actual scholarly paper instead of a non-scientific propaganda piece.

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I prefer my name for it, "The Cass Distort."

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I wonder, just as a point of curiosity, how many of these people there are in the world- people who've devoted their entire professional lives to destroying us- as compared to transgender people. We're not a big demographic. I wonder if there are actually more of them than there are of us. Certainly feels like it, sometimes. I know it's more likely that it's just the money and influence of a few truly rabid haters driving this extermination campaign, but... damn, it'd be hard to blame a kid growing up in one of these high-threat environments for thinking the whole world is out to get them.

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It’s a small demographic, but the impact on those it affects is huge. I wonder if they’re allowed to get away with it because there aren’t enough people who truly understand the issue and feel that it impacts them?

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Maybe. I'm sure we're all at least a little bit familiar with how narrow and selfish conservative empathy is... they show so incredibly fucking little of it until an issue follows them home and parks in their living room.

And even then, half the time they just react by excavating a new low, denying the reality in front of their face, and becoming even more bigoted.

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Let's just label it a form of stochastic terrorism. The more they say bad things about us the more of us get injured or killed.

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Well, the British Social Attitudes survey 40 (https://natcen.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-09/BSA%2040%20Moral%20issues.pdf, published Sept 23) noted that 6% of respondents (general population of course, not just professionals) were happy to tell a polling organisation that they were "very prejudiced" towards trans people (a further 27% admitted to a little prejudice).

If we take the number of self described "very prejudiced" people as a proxy for the population of "rabid haters" who are likely to go out of their way to harm and abuse trans people, that would suggest the pool of rabid haters may outnumber actual trans people up to 12 times over. This is calculated on the basis that, while British census numbers on the topic have been criticised ((https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/12/official-estimate-trans-population-england-wales-ons), 0.45-0.5% of the population being trans remains the most credible number. As all the trans number revisions have been downward, that just makes the hater ratio even more disheartening.

BSA 41 published this year didn’t ask this specific question, but did note that 47% of the British population claim to believe “that attempts to ensure equal opportunities for this group have gone too far” (https://natcen.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-06/BSA%2041%20Five%20years%20of%20unprecedented%20challenges.pdf)

My general outside impression of US social attitudes is that similar questions would reveal a country overall even more ill-disposed towards trans people.

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#Fascism alive and well in the #UK

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"paid anti-trans experts", aka "professional bigots."

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Putting transgender healthcare into the hands of transphobes is like installing a flat earther as the head of NASA.

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Or installing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the head of the CDC.

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Pretty much the way the Trump administration ran. Every head of every department from education to the post office was basically installed in their role in order to stop that department from accomplishing it's mission and sell off its assets to the private sector.

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The future for trans people in the UK is bright. Many more young people are trans or very supportive of trans people. The older naysayers will gradually fade away and this will just be another terribly dark period through which trans people have grown.

Hold hard. Support each other. This too shall pass.

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Just like here in Hungary, officially small Mordor. Eventually the anti-LGBTQ+ haters will run out of power. They are banning this and that but even here they are massively losing their "culture war" eventually their ranks will dwindle and their influence disappear.

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It's true, most of the haters are members of a dying demographic. I can't wait to see them "replaced" as is their biggest fear.

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We only need to hold the line and that is what we will do.

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Collectively, the speakers are a who's who of trans hate and pseudoscience.

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Truly truly frightening. “Stoked for what God is doing in Georgia” ?!? I believe she is very disheartened by these eejits speaking for her! And is horrified by those who have such a vengeance to do harm unto others with their cruelty, in her name.

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Gerrymandered Standards of Care authored by White Supremacist Cis Heteronormative Christian Nationalist Pseudoscientists :(

Be sure you are registered to vote . Know where your polling place is located . Plan to vote in person on Election Day

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Early and mail-in voting is safe and secure where available. I recommend people do that if they can in case something comes up on the one day that in-person voting is allowed. Almost all states that allow mail-in voting enable voters to check their ballot status after Election Day to ensure their ballot was counted.

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And we should all check that out ballot was not rejected for not matching our signature on file. I don't think I've signed name the same exact way twice in my life.

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Early voting is walking distance for me, same process as in-person with no pressure.

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Can't wait for the Levy Review to shit on adult trans care in the UK just as Cass has done for young people. No doubt at least some of these "luminaries" will be all over it. Worse, it's hard to know where to go to have a chance of making an impact instead of just shouting into the wind.

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I am with you on not knowing where to go or what can be done in order to actually be heard.

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A phrase to keep in mind.

The "gender critical" are bigots who want to abuse some children with their sex.

#Omelas

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It is an unbelievable thing that we can't have peace on an issue like this. We know better than to suppress people's identities, or deny them. These noisy, negative views are toxic.

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"A later email even hinted at SEGM’s formation by Malone as a way to bypass WPATH with alternative standards of care"

In other words, SEGM is a fake, a front, no different from the American College of Pediatricians, each a right-wing fringe group with a name specifically intended to suggest more legitimacy than it has.

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Segm doesn't have a stake in this issue and therefore does not deserve to be heard. Where is the injured party ? Who has been harmed by modern transcare ? There is no smoking gun nor any evidence of harm towards trans folk. Those who regret their treatment are a very small number like the few people who are harmed by a vaccine that has otherwise saved thousands of lives. There may in fact be some collateral damage but it's not enough to justify making the rest of us detransition.

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I barely can believe it. But as we know the NHS is highly politicized now and influenced by swindlers. I feel sorry for those children as their lives will be ruined like ours was.

Just a refresher, how anti-science these NHS/SEGM people are.

https://www.aap.org/en/news-room/aap-voices/why-we-stand-up-for-transgender-children-and-teens/

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Oregon voter here…mail in ballots!

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