More deliberate misquotes and unsupported claims. I did get a kick out of uneducated patchy neckbeard Vanessa labeling the former president of the Royal College of Pediatricians as "unqualified."
Of course Hilary Cass did not say anything even close to what these troons claim.
CHAKRABARTI: So Dr. Cass, one thing that the review notes very clearly at the top, which is true both in the UK and elsewhere around the world, including the United States, is the rapid rise, and actually the exponential rise in the number of young people, adolescents in particular, seeking treatment for gender dysphoria.
In fact, you have a chart here that shows that around 2013, 2014, every year, essentially, the numbers spike up higher, and it's many more adolescent girls. What do you think, or what did the review seem to find in terms of what may be driving that rapid rise?
CASS: That's a really good question.
So we looked at what we understand about the biology, but obviously biology hasn't changed suddenly in the last 10 years. So then we tried to look at, what has changed? And one is the overall mental health of teenage girls, in particular, although boys, to some degree. Part of this is something to do with the well-being of girls, and that may also be driven by social media, by early exposure to pornography, and a whole series of other factors that are happening for girls.
It's a tough time to grow up. But secondly, a much more fluid approach to how young people see gender. They see gender much more flexibly than, say, my generation did. So for some young people, gender becomes the main anxiety for them and the way in which they focus their distress. And just as an example, a colleague of mine described a not infrequent sequence of events, which is a young person comes to clinic, a birth registered female, who's very distressed by her breasts, is identifying as male. And the first thing she may do for that young person is put them on the pill to stop their periods.
That's a much more straightforward intervention than puberty blockers. If she's binding her breasts, it's really important that she does it safely. So the nurse in the clinic will show her how to do that safely. And then often by the next visit, that young person is less anxious. They may still be choosing to identify as non-binary or using he/him pronouns, but the heat has gone out of the gender distress, and they're then able to talk about other issues.
And over time, they may go on to have a trans identity, or they may --
The evidence was disappointingly poor': The full interview with Dr. Hilary Cass
