Dr. Cass's latest statements are likely to cast more doubt on the validity of the study, which has come under fire for disregarding substantial evidence on trans care.
Too Fucking Late. Damage has been done and the expected shits like the Tory's have already fucking ran with her shite report. Not that I expect Labour to support Trans people better if they're elected. The report only did one thing and that's worked in favour of anti trans groups and politicians. I feel for the kids here in the UK who now have little to no medical support for something that is overwhelming for them thanks to fucking bigoted arse holes.
Yeah, trans people in the UK are in horrible danger.
In regards to Hillary Cass I am not even sure how much of this is actual regret and how much is her trying to save her reputation in regards to her scientific credentials. It may be politically opportune to write a report full of bigoted pseudo-science that slanders the academic community who does actual science, but it comes at a price.
We of the lgbt community and our allies know the reports flawed as fuck at best but those who don't have an interest in trans people outside of attacking them don't know enough or care enough to know the reports shite. I was reading comments on the live politics blog of the guardian UK and there was someone attacking the green party of the UK because they've been supportive of trans people in their policies and manifesto, of course the replies were mostly in agreement and the evidence they used to support the attacks on the green party for being pro trans was the fucking case report. The guardians demographic is typically centre left middle class so likely university educated and they still don't fucking get it. It served as a good reminder why I stopped reading it earlier this year. Unfortunately here in the UK there isn't a leftwing paper that's pro trans. Every news outlet is ambivalent at best and outright attacking at worst. There's also a General Election this year and local ones within a month so it's hugely important to me that anti LGBT people aren't elected and that won't be the case it seems. I fucking hate the UK and I'm lucky enough to live in Northern Ireland which hopefully will reunite with the south at some point in my lifetime.
It's so fucking cool how the damage can be so effectively done and then she just gets to say "oopsy, I didn't mean that, sowwy" and now all the TERFs will rally around saying she's being bullied into retracting it. I hate this fucking place
Notably all of the british press that pushed this story and have been constantly trying to undermine trans people, are completely ignoring this. this country sucks :(