Where do we go to get it all back?

Did you suspect that the prescribed treatment for children or young adults suffering from gender dysphoria – lifelong medication, removal of healthy body parts, sterilization – was NOT the correct course of action?  Well, turns out you were right. Although it may be a small comfort if you have a child caught in this madness, the final Cass Report was just published and confirmed your suspicions.

Doubtless many open-minded media outlets and the usual gender critical journalists and websites will devote much space to the report. And it’s big news in the UK. The NY Times has covered it, but most of the US mainstream media has not picked up the story to date.

You can read the full report here:  https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/. Please share it widely but, in the event you don’t have a chance to read it all, some key findings are cited below. These are direct excerpts.

• There is not a reliable evidence base upon which to make clinical decisions, or for children and their families to make informed choices. 

• The strengths and weaknesses of the evidence base on the care of children and young people are often misrepresented and overstated, both in scientific publications and social debate.

• The rationale for early puberty suppression remains unclear, with weak evidence regarding the impact on gender dysphoria, mental or psychosocial health.

• The use of masculinising / feminising hormones in those under the age of 18 also presents many unknowns, despite their longstanding use in the adult transgender population. The lack of long-term follow-up data on those commencing treatment at an earlier age means we have inadequate information about the range of outcomes for this group.

• For most young people, a medical pathway will not be the best way to manage their gender-related distress.

During the Reagan administration, the Secretary of Labor was accused of fraud. Later cleared by a jury he asked, “Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?” Parents will be relieved to learn that an evidence-based approach is finally being applied to the treatment of gender dysphoria but, for those of us whose children have – pick your poison - changed their names or undergone surgery or taken medication with irreversible consequences or estranged themselves from their family or lost years to this ideology or, in the worst fate possible, died– we ask, where do we go to get back all that was lost?