Hilary Cass: I can’t travel on public transport any more

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1. It is appalling that the discourse on certain topics in this country results in people being intimidated like this.

2. Headline doing its best to make it seem like there have already been incidents. She says she’s been given security advice based on the backlash on social media

   Has there been a double-blind study to determine if anything would actually happen?

3. I think we can all agree that Dawn Butler isn’t very bright.

   The quality of our MPs has never been lower.

4. Reading the article no-one has even threatened her on public transport and seems to be a performative measure for sympathy and a click bait headline. I imagine 99.99% of people wouldn’t even recognise her in the street. 

5. An interesting article. Whatever your personal views, it’s concerning that these clinics didn’t co-operate and refused to release data. These are children, transparency is vital to ensure quality of care.

6. “Propaganda author complains about other people spreading disinformation”

   What sort of fucked up dystopian hellscape are we living in…

   At least she knows a tiny bit about how trans people feel now. Most of us aren’t safe on public transport either cos of the lies spread about us by the likes of her. Not that she has the empathy to connect the dots…

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8. Imagine being seen as a target in public for being yourself, completely unimaginable, especially for a group already victimised that she just gave the right wing press even more ammunition to paint as dangers to kids, there are literally people doing it in this thread right now, the article frankly does it too by entirely framing our anger at her working to get our healthcare banned in terms of “those dangerous manly trans women are coming to get me”.

   Heck why no blame for any of the papers using her name to catastrophicly frame her conclusions so badly it justified going way further than what the report actually recommended including full bans and restricting adult care.

   Edit: side note I do not condone any threatening social media posts directed at her obviously.

9. Nothing like a feature article in The Times to prove how truly unbiased and impartial Dr Cass is on the subject. (And, perhaps if you’re worried about people recognising you in public, maybe don’t pose smiling for an article…?)

   >Cass also revealed that the Tavistock clinic had refused to co-operate with the review by not handing over data on detransitioners who had been examined by a psychiatrist.

   Yes, because she was attempting to get sensitive data *without the consent of the patients*.

10. TERF 101, Lie spew hateful propaganda, Silence transpeople erode their rights then claim that somehow *your* the victim and are silenced.

    No doubt she’s going to be interviewed on question time newsnight aswell as countless newspapers the caption at the bottom reading.

    “Most silenced woman in all of the UK… Silenced by the hateful tran on twitter.”

    While she continues to speak lies uncontested.

    When was the last time you saw an article written by transperson? or they appeared on newsnight?
    You don’t do you? It’s a coordinated campaign of disempowerment and persecution and your witnessing it first hand.

11. The Cass Review literally suggests adopting experiment design protocols banned after Mengele. I really think a better name would be “Cass-Mengele Review”.

12. And currently I’m watching transgender healthcare be systemically removed. Weirdly enough, I’m not seeing any think pieces about the harm this causes. 

    Before you jump in – “No one has been directly harmed yet!” – Cass also hasn’t been directly harmed and has a lovely piece here about how much it impacts her.

    The Cass review recommended regional transgender healthcare centres for youth. It hasn’t materialised and we haven’t seen plans for it. We’ve just seen the existing treatment stopped. 

    The concern is fairly clear – we’ll see another review for adults that finds the underfunded healthcare is effective for patients but has flaws, and we’ll make an attempt to ban it wholesale. Frankly I think that would be true for most treatments on the NHS right now in it’s underfunded state – it’s just that transgender people are the current bogeyman of the right wing

    I think I’d rather be able to afford a security staff and avoid public transport than this, to be honest. 

13. If I was worried about being recognised in public, I’d get my picture printed in the paper too. Mark of absolute genius, here. The real question is… who the hell is Hilary Cass?