The Cass Review was a study the British government asked for. British institutions have been influenced by trans-exclusionary politics. TERF, rad-fem, or gender-critical views are related to a fringe 1970s flavor of feminism, but in the 2010s has taken the meaning of any transphobic woman and also any transphobic person or movement.
Rowling, the author of Harry Potter has bank-rolled similar individuals and groups. Most importantly, the Cass Review and the Supreme Court ruling are considered moves made by Rowling and other transphobes to roll back trans rights in the UK. The Supreme Court ruling was followed up by an EHRC guidance, an organization that was criticized for transphobic views before.
After the guidance there is a widespread witch hunt of trans people in public bathrooms in the UK, which is similar to many Southern US “bathroom bills”. Following the Cass Review, there were many critics of its methods and conclusions, but the UK blindly chose to stop treating young trans people. A clinical trial was designed, a scientific test to see if a treatment is effective, for puberty blockers.
These are drugs that stop some sex-specific hormones from causing changes to the body to make it sexually mature (like growing hair in places, developing muscle mass, growing breasts), because these changes might cause discomfort to young trans people.
A scientist in the team doing the trial stopped it, and several transphobic media wrote about it.
They claimed the study stopped because it was considered harmful for participants. This is a talk-point of TERFs, who want these treatments to be prohibited altogether.
It turns out that the scientist who caused the trial to stop was a TERF himself, and another scientist said there was no real reason for it to stop. The scientist who stopped the study was taken out of the team, because his beliefs could make the result less fair.
The media that wrote about stopping the trial are now writing a lot about taking him out of the team, and it seems they try to make it appear as censorship of TERF views.
I am sorry to hear that.
The Cass Review was a study the British government asked for. British institutions have been influenced by trans-exclusionary politics. TERF, rad-fem, or gender-critical views are related to a fringe 1970s flavor of feminism, but in the 2010s has taken the meaning of any transphobic woman and also any transphobic person or movement.
Rowling, the author of Harry Potter has bank-rolled similar individuals and groups. Most importantly, the Cass Review and the Supreme Court ruling are considered moves made by Rowling and other transphobes to roll back trans rights in the UK. The Supreme Court ruling was followed up by an EHRC guidance, an organization that was criticized for transphobic views before.
After the guidance there is a widespread witch hunt of trans people in public bathrooms in the UK, which is similar to many Southern US “bathroom bills”. Following the Cass Review, there were many critics of its methods and conclusions, but the UK blindly chose to stop treating young trans people. A clinical trial was designed, a scientific test to see if a treatment is effective, for puberty blockers.
These are drugs that stop some sex-specific hormones from causing changes to the body to make it sexually mature (like growing hair in places, developing muscle mass, growing breasts), because these changes might cause discomfort to young trans people.
A scientist in the team doing the trial stopped it, and several transphobic media wrote about it. They claimed the study stopped because it was considered harmful for participants. This is a talk-point of TERFs, who want these treatments to be prohibited altogether.
It turns out that the scientist who caused the trial to stop was a TERF himself, and another scientist said there was no real reason for it to stop. The scientist who stopped the study was taken out of the team, because his beliefs could make the result less fair.
The media that wrote about stopping the trial are now writing a lot about taking him out of the team, and it seems they try to make it appear as censorship of TERF views.
I hope this helps.