@Quibilah1 @NyssaDogFriend @tomgabion 1/ Worse than that. She was before agonists started being provided during puberty (written endo policy then was nothing until puberty was completed) so her assessment didn't use the 🇳🇱 written, globally standardised diagnostic tools🖼that GIDS's peer clinics had been using for… 
@Quibilah1 @NyssaDogFriend @tomgabion 2/…years & which GIDS trialed in their "audit" (which was never about the attributes of the agonists) & then adopted.
Worse yet, the case was started by a psychoanalyst who left GIDS even further back (2004) who claims GIDS were referring to endo too quickly even then.
Worse yet, the case was started by a psychoanalyst who left GIDS even further back (2004) who claims GIDS were referring to endo too quickly even then.
@Quibilah1 @NyssaDogFriend @tomgabion 3/ In fact, back then, GIDS's endo provided nothing. Their function was to scare families who were too pushy/sure (in GIDS' opinion). In Di Ceglie's 1998 book the endo says she advised that post-medical transition, sexual release was impossible.
She & her fellow analyst…
She & her fellow analyst…
@Quibilah1 @NyssaDogFriend @tomgabion 4/…husband, Marcus, seek - as JKR featured - that kids instead get the "cause" of their GI "explored", which would open the NHS to their "discipline" which has always been banned from funding as unproven, creating work for those the Tavi trains. That's an undeclared interest.
@Quibilah1 @NyssaDogFriend @tomgabion 5/ The other plaintiff - mother of a mid-teen on the spectrum on the waitlist - seeks that GIDS not refer to endo. Well, just anyone can be on the waitlist & there's zero chance that her teen will get anything until adulthood anyway. It like Gillick revisited but with autism.
@Quibilah1 @NyssaDogFriend @tomgabion 6/ Essentially they're seeking the law on the ability to consent to medical treatment (as well as on drug usage w/o specific regulatory approval) be denied to trans people & their parents. GIDS has been ignoring parts of that consent law for decades; will they really defend it?
@Quibilah1 @NyssaDogFriend @tomgabion 7/ In 2004 Re Alex in the 🇦🇺 Family Ct the founder of GIDS (still on staff) was instrumental in making 🇦🇺 the only nation to require court consent for any medical transition step in a trans minor. It was only 2yrs ago normality of parents having the right to consent was restored.
@Quibilah1 @NyssaDogFriend @tomgabion 8/ GIDS keeps citing Gillick as relevant to adolescents getting agonists when it only applies to patients without parents involved. They (backed by the ministers they advise) deny hormones until 16+, which contravenes NW Lancs & is unethical. How will they defend that status quo?
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