The Good News Supplement: Monday 8th April - Sunday 14th April

Apr 16, 2024

It’s been quite a week! A bumper edition of good news from the gender beat. Enjoy!

The Cass Review

The biggest and best news of the week, of course, is the long-awaited publication of the Cass Review Final Report.

Over the last four years, leading paediatrician, Dr Hilary Cass, and her team have conducted the most robust investigation into the clinical evidence - or lack thereof - for medically transitioning children. The subsequent 388 page report has now finally been published. It concludes what we have always known; that gender medicine is “Built on shaky foundations”.

The Cass Review is a damning indictment of the NHS model for treating children with gender distress and it is stingingly critical of both child and adult NHS gender clinics. It states that there is no ‘good evidence’ available on the long-term outcomes of the medical treatments to which children have been subjected and warns that a medical pathway is not suitable for most young people with gender issues. It calls for an end to the prescribing of hormones to under 18s and cautions that extreme care should be taken before anyone under the age of 25 is allowed to medically transition.

The review talks about the pressures put on youngsters and their families and even clinicians by trans ideologues and it highlights the urgent need to provide support and care for detransitioners. Dr Cass writes, “There are few other areas of healthcare where professionals are so afraid to openly discuss their views, where people are vilified on social media, and where name-calling echoes the worst bullying behaviour. This must stop”.

While the contents of the Cass Review are heart-breaking and rage-inducing, it finally being in the public domain is excellent news. This is surely a watershed moment.

Helen Joyce interviewed on a BBC news programme certainly feels significant.

As the sunlight poured in this week, numerous articles in the mainstream media called attention to the corrupt and egregious cult of gender ideology and those who have advocated for, facilitated and cheered it on.

The Times highlighted the pernicious influence of certain trans ideologue charities - Stonewall, Gendered Intelligence, Gires and Mermaids - on NHS gender services.

On the subject of Stonewall, the redoubtable Simon Edge has started a petition to have its former CEO, Ruth ‘it’s admin’ Hunt, stripped of her peerage. You can read more and sign the petition here.

The Daily Mail named and shamed some of gender ideology’s worst medical child catchers; Dr Polly Carmichael, Dr Aiden Kelly, Dr Heather Wood and, from the gingerbread house that is Gender GP, Dr Helen Webberley and her husband, Mr Michael Webberley (formerly a doctor but struck off two years ago).

The Telegraph reported on the gender clinics which deliberately withheld crucial data from the Cass Review. Six of the seven gender NHS gender services refused to reveal the long-term outcomes for 9,000 so-called ‘trans children’ they treated.

Health Secretary, Victoria Atkins, met with the chief executive of NHS England, Amanda Pritchard, and told her that, “Nothing less than full co-operation by those clinics in the research is acceptable”.

Victoria Atkins has now been informed that these adult gender clinics have backed down and agreed to co-operate and hand over their data.

Furthermore, adult transgender clinics in England are now facing an inquiry similar to the Cass Review into the treatment of their patients.

NHS England has announced that it is setting up a review of how the seven specialist adult gender services operate and deliver medical care. In the first instance, ‘external quality improvement experts’ will investigate each of the clinics to gather evidence and help guide the inquiry’s direction. There will follow a Cass-style inquiry carried out by an external examiner.

In the wake of the Cass Review, the ban on puberty blockers will extend to private healthcare providers. The Care Quality Commission (CQC), England’s health regulator, intends to take action against any private clinics prescribing puberty blockers to minors.

In addition, Victoria Atkins is now looking into ways for the Department for Health and Social Care to prevent gender clinics abroad (like offshore snake oil merchants, Gender GP) from prescribing puberty blockers to children in the UK.

There is also pressure on Scotland’s child gender clinic, The Sandyford, to stop prescribing puberty blockers to children.

The influence of the Cass Review already appears to be extending further afield with calls for the use of puberty blockers to be restricted in both The Netherlands and Belgium.

Thanks to the Cass Review, the harm caused to children by gender ‘healthcare’ is finally being reported and discussed out in the open.

Transgender Trend issued this excellent statement: “Children have been utterly failed and The Cass Review final report is not just a wake-up call for NHS England, but for the media, for politicians, for childcare professionals and for all adults who have cheer-leaded this experiment on children with no questions asked.”

Kamran Abbasi, Editor in Chief of the British Medical Journal, wrote, “The Cass review is an opportunity to place evidence informed care at the heart of gender medicine”.

Let’s hope so.

The publication of The Cass Review means vindication for all those courageous campaigners who have fought this evil ideology for years and, in the case of many, suffered tremendously as a consequence.

Among these brave warriors, of course, is Our Graham.

This week Graham wrote in The Telegraph about his heroic (my description!) work in the fight against the medicalisation of vulnerable children and his cautious optimism that ‘the spell is broken’.

He also spoke to Patrick Christys on GB News.

And he appeared on Talk TV, speaking to Julia Hartley-Brewer.

“I’m astonished there’s anyone in the world who can put their career above the safety of children. I would never do that. All I can say is thank God this happened. Thank God for the Cass Report.”

Glinner Down Under

Our Graham is still very busy on his trip to the Antipodes. He met the legend that is Sall Grover.

And hung out with the heroes and heroines of the Aussie resistance.

He also found time to speak to Zoe Booth of Quillette.

And don’t forget that Graham’s memoir, Tough Crowd, is still available from Amazon, The Express shop, Lightning Eye, Waterstones, Blackwells and all other discerning outlets. (There are also audio versions available on Audible and Spotify too.

A Level Playing Field

In news from the US, trans-identified males will no longer be able to compete in NAIA women’s competitions.

This week the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) voted unanimously to protect women’s sports. From August ‘only students whose biological sex is female’ can compete in women's NAIA sports.

Date For Your Diary

The wonderful feminists of The Countess are hosting a conference at the Concert Hall in Dublin on 27th April.

“This national event will bring together ordinary women and men from across Ireland for discussion, debate, and insights from activists, thought leaders, and experts across key subject areas. Join the fight for reality, for freedom of speech, for evidence-based healthcare, for the future of our society.”

For more information and to buy tickets, please see this link.