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This is good news. Because of reports like Yale’s, no serious person can take the Cass Report as credible. Unfortunately, the people in charge of trans healthcare policy aren’t serious people, they’re bigoted clowns.

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Yes "bigoted clowns" who have little interest in listening to the science and true experts in this field. Their interests lie in maintaining power and money pandering to an ignorant and biased populace supplying misinformation/disinformation. The hypocrisy demonstrated by these people regarding their expressed caring about children is nauseating and criminal given the rise in despair and suicide by some our trans youth.

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I received word from an ultraconservative religious organisation in The Netherlands yesterday.

This organisation is backed by Civitas Christiana, which in turn is backed by Ordo Iuris.

The last being the European/possibly worldwide lobbygroup for stoking hate and fear and putting money into changing politics based on ultraconservative and religious-extremist views.

All of this to shape society to their medieval views that way.

This organisation has hundreds of millions to spend on disinformation campaigns and the influence of politicians throughout Europe.

Viktor Orban has been rumoured to be a big receiver of lobby money for this organisation's hateful view, by the way.

I asked them whether they were out on banning puberty blockers for all children (by deliberately not asking about transchildren I was actually referring to children experiencing precocious puberty).

They decided to go full mask-off: All children and all adults should have this medication made unavailable to them.

This is basically saying as much as: "If the holy war on transpeople means cis-people will die, it's an accepted and justifiable form of collateral damage."

It was the clearest example of how the hate is so fierce, so venomous and intrinsically deep in these people, that cis-people can be offered up as marters.

All in the name of hate...

It was scary seeing it spelled out this way.

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With the Chevron reversal, will SCOTUS actually take any of this expert research and opinion into consideration when trans issues make it to the Supreme Court? I'm not versed in law or politics so I'm not sure how far they can take that, but I'm very concerned.

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This is good news and I’m glad this paper was released. The field of trans medicine is so intensely politicized and filled with misinformation, it’s almost insane. Years from now, someday when hopefully the hysteria has subsided, we will be looking back, scratching our heads, and trying to comprehend how things ever got to this point.

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RELIGIOUS INTERFERENCE is how it came to this. There’s zero question in my mind that if there was no religion; LGBTQ people could be safe wherever they lived.

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Unless you're intersectional and have to deal with racism too. In essence, yes, it will take away one of the issues for humanity here and abroad.

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Very good news! I *think* that people are starting to realize the depth of the lies, dishonesty & hate that the cult leaders have gone to in order to manipulate minds.

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The Cass "Review" is a political document. It is not science nor is it based in science.

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Let’s see the NY Times publish THIS, and MAYBE I’ll resubscribe.

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This year is giving me a serious case of mood whiplash.

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They've politicized us and I hope they all choke on their judgments of this side of humanity. Now, let's see if doctors in the U.S. do anything similar. If they do, they need to get it into mainstream media or it won't change anybody's mind.

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An excellent summary of the problems with the Cass Review.

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