Over the last four years, Hilary Cass has conducted the most robust review of the medical evidence for transitioning children that's ever been conducted. Mere hours after it was released to the press and public, committed ideologues are doubling down. 1/6
Over the last four years, Hilary Cass has conducted the most robust review of the medical evidence for transitioning children that's ever been conducted. Mere hours after it was released to the press and public, committed ideologues are doubling down. 1/6
These are people who've deemed opponents 'far-right' for wanting to know there are proper checks and balances in place before autistic, gay and abused kids - groups that are all overrepresented at gender clinics - are left sterilised, inorgasmic, lifelong patients. 2/6
I understand that the review's conclusions will have come as a seismic shock to those who've hounded and demonised whistleblowers and smeared opponents as bigots and transphobes, but trying to discredit Hilary Cass's work isn't merely misguided. It's actively malign. 3/6
Even if you don't feel ashamed of cheerleading for what now looks like severe medical malpractice, even if you don't want to accept that you might have been wrong, where's your sense of self-preservation? The bandwagon you hopped on so gladly is hurtling towards a cliff. 4/6
And if I sound angry, it's because I'm bloody angry. I read Cass this morning and my anger's been mounting all day. Kids have been irreversibly harmed, and thousands are complicit, not just medics, but the celebrity mouthpieces, unquestioning media and cynical corporations. 5/6
The consequences of this scandal will play out for decades. You cheered it on. You did all you could to impede and misrepresent research. You tried to bully people out of their jobs for opposing you. Young people have been experimented on, left infertile and in pain. 6/6
I thought the last tweet was going to be my last, but I just burst into tears. The #CassReview may be a watershed moment, but it comes too late for detransitioners who've written me heartbreaking letters of regret. Today's not a triumph, it's the laying bare of a tragedy. 7/7
@jk_rowling If anything, it’s at least testament to the fact that my gut feeling to step away from transition was not unfounded, despite being bombarded with accusations that I was transphobic for doing so. Thank you for caring about us and our experiences.
@jk_rowling It is absoulutly ridiculous that they don't know more about detransition. We've been crying out for years at this stage.
@jk_rowling We appreciate you raising our voices. It's been hard to speak with all the screaming.
@jk_rowling It's too late for us, but I can only hope this is the beginning of the end of this happening to children from now. I'll always live with the feeling I let him down, but we can continue to strive to ensure it stops happening to others.
@jk_rowling Jamie Reed (US whistleblower) recently went on Dr. Phil and said kids were calling the gender clinic within months of having their body parts removed and begging for them to be put back on. What the gender cult is doing to young people is unforgivable.