“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling has banned public transportation after backlash for her role in a major study that revealed a lack of evidence supporting the effectiveness of gender care for minors. Defended a prominent British pediatrician who was reportedly unable to move around the institution.
“‘Follow the money’ may be a conspiracy theorist’s cliché, and we loathe the cliché ‘sink it,’ but when a respected pediatrician is advised against busing and lobbying groups are If you think about it, it may seem that both are true when you collapse in order to undermine the trust of a medical institution that has taken care of you. Rowling wrote This is the last of three posts looking at the state of development.
Rowling shared a link Sunday Times coverage We detail the ordeal through an interview with Dr. Hilary Cass, the physician behind the study.
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Author JK Rowling arrives at the RFK Ripple of Hope Award Ceremony held at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City on December 12, 2019. (Dia Dipaspil/Getty Images)
“Following safety recommendations, I am not taking public transport at this time. It is inconvenient,” she told the outlet.
Cass, a former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, was commissioned by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) in 2020 to conduct an independent review into gender-affirming care services for children and teenagers. commissioned. The findings showed there was “insufficient evidence” for medical promotion of gender transition in children and said the push was “built on shaky foundations”.
The report also found that puberty blockers do not help improve the physical condition of young people suffering from gender dysphoria, and noted that there is insufficient evidence regarding the psychological effects of treatment.
The report sparked a backlash from activists and politicians who said the researchers were deliberately ignoring important scholarship.
Labor MP Dawn Butler was among the critics.
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Dr Hilary Cass, a retired consultant pediatrician, talks about the publication of the Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (The Cass Review) at PA Media’s offices in west London. (Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)
She told the House of Commons: “There are around 100 studies that are not included in this Cass report and we need to know why.”
Meanwhile, Kass insisted that such claims were “straight-up disinformation” and said that the researchers evaluated all the papers included in the review, but that “high-quality and medium-quality papers, i.e. 103 We extracted the results from 60 out of 60 points,” he explained to the Times.
She also noted that critics have gone after her in other ways, including social media and vitriolic emails.
“What’s disappointing to me is how childish this discussion can be,” she told the outlet. “If you don’t agree with someone, you’ll be called a transphobe or a turf. [trans-exclusionary radical feminist]. ”
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Transgender rights activists take part in a protest against the ban on hormone blockers in London, England, on April 20, 2024. (Karl Cote/Getty Images)
Many of the comments on Rowling’s post defended Cass.
Journalist EJ Rosetta wrote: “Why would police tell a woman who is the victim of an explicit threat of physical violence that the only answer is to ‘just stay home’? I’m sorry. Haven’t the men making these threats been given any warning?” Stop it? Of course, women have to stay at home. ”
Others focused on threats to free speech and violence stemming from opposition to the transgender movement.
According to a recent report from the UK’s Sky News, National Health Service (NHS) Following the release of the report, it said: “We will be suspending first-time clinic admissions for young people under 18 and will conduct a major review of adult gender services and hormone use.”
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