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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Minister stripped of puberty blocker brief after expressing safety concerns

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SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 04/07/2026 20:54

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/711ae1d6366e6628

Preet Kaur Gill had voiced alarm prior to her appointment that ‘credible safeguarding warnings’ about drugs were being ignored

Minister stripped of puberty blocker brief after expressing safety concerns

Preet Kaur Gill had voiced alarm prior to her appointment that ‘credible safeguarding warnings’ about drugs were being ignored

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/711ae1d6366e6628

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ScrollingLeaves · 06/07/2026 16:15

Imnobody4 · 06/07/2026 14:04

Good question from Rosie Duffield in HoC
He repeatedly says that he's 'listened to clinical experts', but has only ever named Baroness Cass. But, as I put it to him, there are dozens of experts who are against this trial. Why hasn't he met with any of them?
x.com/i/status/2073846860247093481

Actually didn’t Baroness Cass say no body knows what possible outcomes from puberty blockers there might be?

If so, there is no really ‘expert’ clinical opinion to be had.

Didn’t Baroness Cass also write that they had wanted to review 9000 cases concerning gender treatment of young people that have already happened - in other words the real life results of a 9000 strong cohort who were recipients of ‘gender care’ - but the gender clinics refused to divulge the information?

When clinicians talk to patients about what interventions may be best for them, they usually refer to the longer-term benefits and risks of different options, based on outcome data from other people who have been through a similar care pathway. This information is not currently available for interventions in children and young people with gender incongruence or gender dysphoria, so young people and their families have to make decisions without an adequate picture of the potential impacts and outcomes.

A strand of research commissioned by the Review was a quantitative data linkage study.The aim of this study was to fill some of the gaps in follow-up data for the approximately 9,000 young people who have been through GIDS. This would help to develop a stronger evidence base about the types of support and interventions received and longer-term outcomes. This required cooperation of GIDS and the NHS adult gender services.

92. In January 2024, the Review received a letter from NHS England stating that, despite efforts to encourage the participation of the NHS gender clinics, the necessary cooperation had not been forthcoming.
https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118390/documents/HMKP-119-JU00-20250610-SD006.pdf
(Cass Review)

Make them give up all that information.

CornishDaughteroftheDawn · 06/07/2026 19:16

TwoLoonsAndASprout · 06/07/2026 12:45

See also lobotomies.

Edit: Damn, didn’t mean to reply to this message - meant to reply to @CornishDaughteroftheDawn. Apologies!

Edited

Very true!

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 06/07/2026 19:38

SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 05/07/2026 11:46

This is maybe worth it’s own thread but

https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/2073694623449391534/video/1?s=48

gb news interview with health secretary this morning. Very eye opening g on blockers and trans in general

I find that I have to like his having the guts to say he has changed his mind in the light of further evidence. Most politicians in my experience tend to double down on their mistakes, not say "I got it wrong".

Doesn't mean that he is not still getting it wrong, just that he's now getting a different "it" wrong. It's a start....

ScrollingLeaves · 06/07/2026 19:57

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 06/07/2026 19:38

I find that I have to like his having the guts to say he has changed his mind in the light of further evidence. Most politicians in my experience tend to double down on their mistakes, not say "I got it wrong".

Doesn't mean that he is not still getting it wrong, just that he's now getting a different "it" wrong. It's a start....

Except probably he never really thought it before anyway.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 06/07/2026 20:01

Still better to admit error than to perpetuate it.

JellySaurus · 06/07/2026 20:29

TwoLoonsAndASprout · 06/07/2026 12:45

See also lobotomies.

Edit: Damn, didn’t mean to reply to this message - meant to reply to @CornishDaughteroftheDawn. Apologies!

Edited

I agree, anyway.

ScrollingLeaves · 06/07/2026 20:41

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 06/07/2026 20:01

Still better to admit error than to perpetuate it.

Very true, you are right.

FlossieF · 06/07/2026 22:46

Preet Kaur Gill is my MP - have written a supportive e-mail urging her to continue the fight and to speak up loudly and publicly. She can add it to her collection of e-mails from me about all this stuff.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 07/07/2026 08:57

ScrollingLeaves · 06/07/2026 20:41

Very true, you are right.

Best, of course, would be to admit error and then amend it.

He could decide to pursue discovering what has happened to the existing sample of people who were put on puberty blockers rather than inflict them on a new sample. Or at least to do the damn study properly, with controls, and not to start it until it was designed as it should be.

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