I guess, reflecting on this some more, for me, two things seep through the (largely) careful prose in Dr Cass' report. One is a conspicuously genuine desire to make things better for trans children and young people but the other is...
https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1501874115849994242
a deep scepticism, which reflects where so many who hold institutional power in the UK are, about the reality of trans existence.
If you can't shake the feeling in your bones that being trans is an illness, your instinct is always going to be to 'cure' it. So much of England still thinks, in contrast to learning elsewhere like at the WHO, of being trans as a pathology.
(Sorry to those of my followers who aren't interested in this stuff. Thanks for your patience. It's important to me that I try and speak for those who are structurally unheard.)
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