We've just learned that the person at the MHRA whose letter caused Wes 'I follow the clinical evidence' Streeting to cancel the puberty blockers trial is Professor Jacob George, the GC who enjoyed mocking trans people on his social media account.
Why did Wes Streeting cover up his name?
it was after this yes :) we did point out the obvious finacial COI too given her other work...
well. quite.
I do suspect that personal and not institutional emails may have been used inappropriately to avoid FOIs for part of it, but yes, the idea they have 0 is beyond belief.
When this was brought to her along with testmony from multiple people who had been mistreated by her at GIDs we were repatedly told there was no conflict of interest and she was merely choen to advise and would have no influcence on design. lol. lmao.
Uni of York claimed to have no information on the appointment of Kaltiala to the board too!
you can take it from me, almost everyone in society would prefer that you be a masc cis lesbian or femme cis gay man rather than a trans person, and the way they treat you when they are forced to confront the fact that you're trans leaves you in zero doubt about that
Also when the Cass Review says it relies on the York studies for its systematic review of evidence, how clear is it that Cass herself chaired the advisory group for the York studies
n 2022, SEGM helped organize a conference at Tampere University in Finland, although Abbruzzese stressed that it was not an official SEGM event. Attendees included Dutch clinicians like Thomas Steensma and Annalou de Vries, whose research helped establish the Dutch protocol,
He stated as such here (archive link for shitty website)
web.archive.org/web/20240521...
First I've seen it confirmed. Both Steensma and Kaltiala, two figures prominent in bad science re trans kids, advised the Cass Review's York Studies.
Langton I thought? She might still be slightly dodging publically tbf but certainly runs in those circles. and Steemsa was at their 2022 conference
So of the york study board that's 3 who are SEGM affiliated, 2 on advisory board and 1 on actual study board.
A recent FOI, see here:
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cass...
Would it surprise you to learn that Steensma was an advisory member of the York studies for the Cass review? :)))))))
I've written a blog post about Isaac's crowdfunder, with some reflections on the massive inequalities inherent in this approach to healthcare - and the necessity of doing it anyway.
Genuinely incredible stuff. tl;dr "until further notice, don't fucking breathe"
It's also just plain counterfactual. The same people who advocate conversion therapy now would have thrown effeminate gay boys into anti-trans conversion therapy just to be safe back then, too! We know because THAT'S WHAT THEY FUCKING DID, LOOK:
xtramagazine.com/health/drop-...
It's where most of the Cass review seems to have ended up too...
Unfortunately yeah, no flag.
Do reccomend people write to study directly too, I think reason didn't before was that there hasn't been any obvious contact line?
Yeah (hence the writing to GICs to say do not share data etc)
This is genuinely very funny. Scrabbling around looking for someone, anyone, to blame for his own mistakes Starmer alights on the guy whose last appearance in the national consciousness was when he was dressed as a cat on a reality tv show
Standard NHS opt outs doesn't remove existing data, just stops new data.
Right like? He's achieved what he set out for clearly, removing him doesn't matter.
The Lancet also shares some responsibility here: It published Andrew Wakefield's bullshit study about vaccines and autism in 1998 that it would later have to retract. Kennedy (and Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey and Oprah) just ran with it. Wakefield would lose his license for it.
Worth reading their letter in full, but would particularly like to draw attention to this paragraph, following the High Court decision. Routinely outing trans people at work is not compatible with their human rights.
Yeah lmao
an account called Lorraine driver says 'It's a vote to split the Labour majority and hand it to frog face' Chris Boyd replies with 'hi lorraine I'm here as a representative of 'things that age really well or really badly' company and, well, how do you feel about the latter Lorraine: please fuck off Chris: I'll put a tick next to I've felt better'
Hahahahahahaha
cc @paperghost.bsky.social
sex matters trustee charlotte cadden
gorton and denton by-election result: she gets 706 votes, 1.9% of the total
underappreciated but very funny gorton and denton sideplot: the conservatives nominating literal sex matters (uk terf group) trustee charlotte cadden, only for her to get the worst result for the conservatives in by-election history and lose her deposit
I think the key takeaway from this election is that all it takes to really unite academics of all disciplines is Matt Goodwin loosing very badly.
reasonable policies for a better britain
