@trans_mum@mimmymum@AlexSharpe64 And now it's the only reason for court involvement everywhere but 🏴🏴, since the 🇦🇺 Family Court finally, 2yrs ago, revoked the last remnant of their ruling brought in with the help of GIDS' di Ceglie that every step be court authorised by re-enabling parental consent
@trans_mum@mimmymum@AlexSharpe64 Why didn't 🏴 pediatric gender clinic GIDS defend its adolescent patients' interests against their care being put under court control by citing 🇦🇺 jurisprudence revoking such control & allowing parental consent? Because GIDS wants to continue its denial of parental consent.
@trans_mum@mimmymum@AlexSharpe64 Why has 🏴 pediatric gender clinic GIDS denied its adolescent patients the right of their parents to consent, as in all other medical care? Because it enables GIDS to deny the 🌍 recommended provision of "blockers" as soon as puberty starts (possibly from 8yo in AFAB, 9 in AMAB)
@trans_mum@mimmymum@AlexSharpe64 Why didn't 🏴 pediatric gender clinic GIDS call or cite the expert authors of @TheEndoSociety guidelines🖼️, as endorsed by the 🏴-based @EuroSPE to defend its adolescent patients' access to vital care? Because it doesn't want to provide the better care they recommend
@trans_mum@mimmymum@AlexSharpe64@TheEndoSociety@EuroSPE Why didn't @NHSEngland, the commissioner/bill payer for 🏴 pediatric gender clinic GIDS speak in court to defend its adolescent patients' access to vital care? Because it negligently treats GIDS as the sole experts on that care, ignoring its conflict of interests with patients'
@73inlancs@janethooton_@ErinInTheMorn@fifi_EY 1/ The 🏴 government decided pediatric gender care in England would be a monopoly contract (a Labour minister, in 2008), despite all other NHS patients officially being entitled to a choice of providers, & second opinions on diagnoses & treatment, & gave it to GIDS, which has…
@73inlancs@janethooton_@ErinInTheMorn@fifi_EY 2/…always advocated that trans minors & their families must have no alternative source of care, & subsequent Tory ministers have personally put their signature on renewals of it, and even personally rejected proposals for improvement that have been put forward by NHS England…
@73inlancs@janethooton_@ErinInTheMorn@fifi_EY 3/…as a result of wider & public consultation. They & their civil servants listen only to GIDS on trans minors - it was GIDS advised against <18s being allowed #GenderRecognition in 2004, & since, on the basis that no one under 18 can be certain of their gender identity, just…
@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.
@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.
@NyssaDogFriend@tomgabion@Quibilah1 As I understand it the case demands that Tavi (that's adult & minors') stop medical treatment & provide psychoanalysis. If that were granted, even pending appeal, it could have devastating effects.
I don't trust GIDS/Tavi/NHS an inch to defend the case to the optimum.
@NyssaDogFriend@tomgabion@Quibilah1 The case law (NW Lancashire judgment) is NHS trans treatment must not be restricted to talking, must be by individual clinical need (not grouped), & hormones & surgery must be available. It doesn't specify a minimum age. Obviously, GIDS has always ignored that so won't use it
@NyssaDogFriend@tomgabion@Quibilah1 The Gillick doctrine is backed up by UNCRC. But the England Children's Commissioner, responsible for enforcing that, will not support trans treatment. Neither will the UK pediatric or endocrine professional bodies. Psychiatric one might, if their involvement was required.
I hope all doctors know to not place us on records as 3rd gender without specific, informed, written consent
@drkamillak@BBCFutureMedia@BBC@ZariaGorvett@PrimaryCareNHS It is not just that passing a medical history of trans on to other medical staff when it is irrelevant is "stigmatising"; many cannot be trusted with it because their UK professional bodies refuse to incorporate our care in their resources, so they can panic & mistreat patients
@drkamillak@BBCFutureMedia@BBC@ZariaGorvett@PrimaryCareNHS The one cited trans patient himself is explicit about that very danger🖼- "let me focus upon your trans identity rather than your kidney disease" - yet the article, & the doctors cited, sail on regardless
@SkLumos@JABenson_Author@CritFacts Too late now. GIDS enforced an 🏴 monopoly denial of all such intervention 1989-2015. A 1999 audit found they didn't even record data to distinguish transsexualism. Instead they mixed in never-trans GNC kids in order to "prove" most "desisted" so none should have interventions.
@SkLumos@JABenson_Author@CritFacts As the 🌏 largest pediatric gender clinic, its head chaired the HBIGDA/WPATH Children's Cmte, standing against interventions. But their peers were clear it was easy to distinguish suitable patients. Here (📽️1995) is 🇳🇱 head Prof Cohen-Kettenis
@SkLumos@JABenson_Author@CritFacts Eventually, peer clinics, years after they started providing agonists (🇳🇱 in 1989-US in 2005) got fed up with GIDS saying it was unsafe because GIDS couldn't tell which patients would remain trans, so gave them a standardised diagnostic test. GIDS trialed it, & capitulated
She's been drawn into a group that's been doing the same since the 70s, initially inspired by US "warnings" that trans women were taking over feminism, but Germaine Greer included it in her 1970 'Female Eunuch'. The matriarch got a post as…
@JohnDiesattheEn@BookBeckBecca 2/… Prof of Politics in Australia & it largely died down until she retired back here & made rolling back trans human rights progress her retirement project. They've tied in with all sorts of right-wing, church, etc., allies & now, in UK have the UK 'Guardian', Murdoch's…
@JohnDiesattheEn@BookBeckBecca 3/…'Times', 'Sun', & 'Sunday Times', the Barclay Bros' 'Telegraph' & 'Spectator', the 'Mail', The BBC & Channel4, the Koch Bros' 'Spiked', the "communist" 'Morning Star', 'Breitbart', & 'The Economist' all singing the same tune. Murdoch's rags do the same in Australia.