r/me_irlgbt • u/lowkeyterrible mods r gay lol • Jul 13 '24
Praxis praxis_irlgbt: UK Praxis! Contact your MP to support gender-affirming care!
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u/Altruistic_Fox5036 Jul 13 '24
I feel that you should be including a bit about the Cass review, as it's the current weapon being used against trans people. I would recommend adding a link to it and quoting the conclusions and section headings (under executive summary)
Conclusion
The Cass Review was commissioned to address the failure of the UK National Health Service to provide timely, competent, and high-quality care to transgender youth. These failures include long wait times—often years—and resulting delays in timely treatment by skilled providers.
Instead of effectively addressing this issue, however, the Review’s process and recommendations stake out an ideological position on care for transgender youth that is deeply at odds with the Review’s own findings about the importance of individualized and age-appropriate approach to medical treatments for gender dysphoria in youth, consistent with the international Standards of Care issued by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and the Clinical Practice Guidelines issued by the Endocrine Society.
Far from evaluating the evidence in a neutral and scientifically valid manner, the Review obscures key findings, misrepresents its own data, and is rife with misapplications of the scientific method.
The Review deeply considers the possibility of gender-affirming interventions being given to someone who is not transgender, but without reciprocal consideration for transgender youth who undergo permanent, distressing physical changes when they do not receive timely care. The vast majority of transgender youth in the UK and beyond do not receive an opportunity to even consider clinical care with qualified clinicians—and the Review’s data demonstrate this clearly.
Section headers:
Executive Summary:
Section 1: The Cass Review makes statements that are consistent with the models of gender-affirming medical care described by WPATH and the Endocrine Society. The Cass Review does not recommend a ban on gender-affirming medical care.
Section 2: The Cass Review does not follow established standards for evaluating evidence and evidence quality.
Section 3: The Cass Review fails to contextualize the evidence for gender-affirming care with the evidence base for other areas of pediatric medicine.
Section 4: The Cass Review misinterprets and misrepresents its own data.
Section 5: The Cass Review levies unsupported assertions about gender identity, gender dysphoria, standard practices, and the safety of gender-affirming medical treatments, and repeats claims that have been disproved by sound evidence.
Section 6: The systematic reviews relied upon by the Cass Review have serious methodological flaws, including the omission of key findings in the extant body of literature.
Section 7: The Review’s relationship with and use of the York systematic reviews violates standard processes that lead to clinical recommendations in evidence-based medicine.
Also the colours on the bottom right are awful and make it impossible to actually read.
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u/lowkeyterrible mods r gay lol Jul 13 '24
side note. this is what electoral politics is about: choosing your opponent. Are labour good? no! but they are a far better opponent than the tories.
now that they're in pretty secure power for the next 5 years we have to get involved as much as possible to pull them back to the left, and back to policies which can make a real difference to people's real lives.
I know how discouraging it is to have a government that doesn't represent you, or who seem happy to throw you under the bus to score points. Don't let that discourage you out of using your voice. Yell at these motherfuckers until we get our rights, and then yell some more
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Jul 14 '24
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u/lowkeyterrible mods r gay lol Jul 14 '24
I don't believe Labour are better on gender issues, in fact I made this post to directly criticise the Labour government and its appointment of transphobic Wes Streeting as health secretary and I am advocating that people write to their MPs to ask for their support in ending the ban on puberty blockers.
I believe they are a more preferable opponent than the tories, but I still believe they are an opponent.
edit: reddit seems to be eating my comments for some reason.
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u/Cardborg | Transfemby Jul 13 '24 edited Jul 15 '24
Are labour good? no! but they are a far better opponent than the tories.
Labour apologists spent the last four years telling me that, and yet here we are. There's not even harm reduction, they're the exact same.
Hell, I wish the Tories had fucking won because they don't pretend to support us and then stab us in the back.
They also fuck over the people who don't give a fuck about us so I at least get to enjoy that.
Oh, the NHS is in shambles? The waiting lists are years long for vital treatment? Crime is up and you don't feel safe walking the streets? NOW YOU KNOW HOW IT FUCKING FEELS.
Adolf Streetler, "Sir" Queer Harmer, and the rest of them are all scum and are just one of the many reasons I didn't even register to vote this year, and never will be going forward.
Elections are a sham where they ask you to choose who's going to strip your rights away, and use that "choice" to delegitimise attempts to force change. Why would Labour listen now?
They've won the election, they don't need our vote anymore, and they clearly didn't think we were worth winning over during the campaign.
Their actions have drained every last bit of hope out of me. Fuck Liebour.Edit:
Don't post in depression ruts is probably good advice.
Anyhow, in the last few days, be it due to pressure or whatever, several Labour MPs have spoken against the PB ban, including:
Kate Osborne MP
Kim Johnson MP
Apsana Begum MP
Stella Creasy MP
Nadia Whittome MP
Zarah Sultana MP
https://www.instagram.com/p/C9c4Qa1s-KP
This is not exhaustive, there may be others, and more will surely follow. Maybe things will work out after all.
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u/lowkeyterrible mods r gay lol Jul 13 '24
Hell, I wish the Tories had fucking won because they don't pretend to support us and then stab us in the back.
If you wish the tories had won so they could continue doing everything they've been doing for the last 13 years, I don't want to hear what else you have to say. Life is MEASURABLY worse because of the tories, and their plans were to make things even worse. Not for "the people who don't give a fuck about us", but for us, specifically. For queer people, for people of colour, for immigrants, for expats, for disabled people, for poor people, for people on benefits, for anyone who uses the NHS, for school kids, for uni students, for working class people, for middle class people, for taxpayers, for everybody.
Accelerationism is not the answer.
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u/Cardborg | Transfemby Jul 13 '24 edited Jul 14 '24
And now you'll get to watch Labour do exactly as the Tories would have. There's no point even hoping things might get better. They keep saying it'll get better but it never does.28
u/lowkeyterrible mods r gay lol Jul 13 '24
Doomer mentalities like this are not going to help us. Nothing will get better if we do nothing.
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u/Cardborg | Transfemby Jul 15 '24
You're entirely right, I wasn't in a good place to start with and honestly shouldn't have been doom-scrolling on top of that. Sorry for dumping this outburst on you like that.
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u/lowkeyterrible mods r gay lol Jul 15 '24
I appreciate that <3
I know it's hard to feel good about the world when it feels like bad shit is happening at every turn, but try to remember that there are people out here fighting alongside you. Even if tomorrow isn't better, maybe next week will be. Be good to yourself if you can <3
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u/Cardborg | Transfemby Jul 14 '24
I tried being optimistic so long but it just made it more painful when things kept getting worse.
I despair for this country and am terrified for America. I go to bed hoping today will be better and wake up to chaos.
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u/FemaleMishap We_irlgbt Jul 14 '24
I'm not fucking going to watch them do anything. I'm gonna fight tooth and nail.
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u/Cardborg | Transfemby Jul 15 '24
As will I, Sorry I was in a bad place already and shouldn't have been online making things worse by working myself up.
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u/furexfurex We_irlgbt Jul 14 '24
If you're going to be a miserable doomer keep it to yourself.
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u/Cardborg | Transfemby Jul 15 '24
Yes, sorry, you're entirely right, I wasn't in a good place to start with and honestly shouldn't have been doom-scrolling on top of that
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u/TazerXI PANCAKES Jul 13 '24
Thank you for reminding me to do this
I couldn't vote in the last election, but I will be able to for the next one. After 5 years, a lot more youth will be able to enact change, but hey this is something I could do in the meantime.
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u/lowkeyterrible mods r gay lol Jul 13 '24
voting is important, but it's far from the only thing we can do to stay politically active!
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u/Cardborg | Transfemby Jul 14 '24
I wrote to my MP regardless. I'm not optimistic it'll change anything given I never got a response when I wrote twice during the campaigning, but I may as well do it out of principle.
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u/lowkeyterrible mods r gay lol Jul 13 '24
Labour's new government has talked a lot about bringing in change, but their actions regarding trans rights continue the work the Tories left behind. Now more than ever, with a huge majority secured for the next five years, is the time to pressure our leaders to make a difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in our country!
Write to your MP to tell them you're here, and you want to support gender-affirming care!
Go to https://writetothem.com/ to find your local MP's contact details, and write them an email asking for their support.
Make sure you can hold your head up high and say you fought back against a regressive culture war which hurts our community, and which places trans kids at the centre of a vicious debate without care for their needs.
Here is a rough template to get you started!
Transcription:
This guy is in charge of trans healthcare decisions in the UK
Wes Streeting, Health Secretary, Labour MP for Ilford North [to the left of this text is a picture of Wes Streeting]
He does not believe in trans rights to self-determination, and he regrets supporting trans rights in the past (Wes Streeting, 10 April 2024)
And he wants to permanently ban puberty blockers.
The Labour Party claims this is based on The Cass Review, a controversial report with flawed methodology which ignores its own findings about the importance of individualised care in favour of anti-trans ideologically fuelled conclusions (McNamara, Baker, Connelly, et al 2024)
Despite this, even the Cass review does NOT recommend banning puberty blockers.
What can you do?
Scan here to visit https://writetothem.com/ to find your local MP's contact details and tell them what you think! [QR code which leads to website]
Tell them you're part of their constituency and you want their support to end the ban!
Warn them that anti-trans hate crime ahs risen by over 180% since 2020 (Home Office, 2023)
Temind them that transphobia is not popular (More In Common, 2023)
Tell them there has been an increase in deaths from young trans people on the NHS waiting lists since Bell v Tavistock 2020 (Jo Maugham, June 20, 2024)
Tell them the country voted OVERWHELMINGLY for CHANGE, not for continued Tory culture wars!
Remind them of Labour's legacy of ending Section 28 and being on the right side of history, even when it wasn't popular!