It’s hardly a secret that hard-Left politicians are adept at transforming themselves like chameleons into whatever form that they feel is necessary either to gain power or hold on to it. The Cass report on transgender drugs is one such case. The Labour Party has endorsed the Cass report, although it is critical of the aggressive trans agenda and of the push for transgender drugs. Transgender advocates have used bullying and intimidation in order to shut down the voices of women as it waged its culture war. In essence, the Cass report challenges the scientific basis for supporting the medical transition for children. And so, as the UK’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Victoria Atkins states, it is “hypocritical” for the Labour party to endorse the Cass report. That it is, since the Labour Party has been entrenched in the trans ideology, but is now attempting to walk a fine line in its efforts to hold on to maximum support. Already, Labour is attracting criticism from its most devout trans activists:
The Cass Review ignored dozens of scientific studies, coming to a harmful conclusion of limiting access to gender-affirming care for trans youth.
Anti-trans campaigners have celebrated it.
So it’s highly disappointing that Labour’s Leadership is welcoming it unreservedly. https://t.co/3Sl20pJAc7
— Momentum 🌹 (@PeoplesMomentum) April 10, 2024
“Left Wing Has Spent Decade ‘Trying to Shut Women up’ For Transgender Ideology, Says UK Health Minister,'” by Oliver JJ Jane, Breitbart, October 11, 2024:
The UK Labour Party is hypocritical to now endorse the deeply critical Cass report on transgender drugs given it has been “part of the ideology, the culture wars” for the past ten years, a government health minister says.
Dr Hillary Cass published the full, nearly 400-word NHS-ordered report into the state of children’s transgender “services” in the health service on Wednesday in which she made a series of serious criticisms and recommendations. The Left-wing Labour Party — gunning to become the new government at national elections later this year — was quick to say it would adopt all 32 recommendations made by Dr Cass, but present Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Victoria Atkins angrily slammed the rhetoric as hypocritical given — as she claimed — Labour had been part of the problem all along.
The report had shone a light on “bullying” and intimidation in the debate around trans issues in the United Kingdom, with Dr Cass herself saying she’d been attacked for leading the review and said the environment was “exceptionally toxic”. Reflecting this, Atkins said on Thursday morning that Dr Cass had been “incredibly brave” in her work and said “a culture of ideology and dare I say it intimidation ahs [sic] been allowed to trump the interests of children and the basis of clinical evidence” in an interview with London broadcaster LBC.
Further speaking to Sky News Thursday morning, Atkins said: “Labour has spent the last ten years trying to shut women up when it comes to this. They have been part of the ideology, the culture wars… creating an atmosphere of intimidation for anyone who dared to question this ideology, so it is a little bit rich of the Labour Party to be lecturing the rest of us now, having been so forthright in their support for this ideology in the past.”
The culture in intimidation that “trumped safety and evidence for the care of children” will now be stopped, Atkins vowed, and said the government has already taken some steps including closing the controversial Tavistock clinic which had been at the centre of the ‘treatment’ controversies, and the NHS has now banned hormone blockers for children and young people. A further government review would now come to understand the “consequences” of the “treatments” given to some 9,000 children who presented as transgender to the Tavistock clinic. Not only would this help understand what had happened and how to stop it from happening again, it was also important so “so we can help and support those young people”, she said….
England Invaded says
The left also silencing people for decades on the matter of 3rd world savages being inflicted on the UK in the millions.
gravenimage says
So true…and the related threat of Jihad terror.
FYI says
We need to preserve our cultural norms;freedom of speech,freedom to dislike something,freedom to ridicule.and draw any cartoons we like.
The Lefties;Stop the hate!
{What hate?Where is the hate in having a CONTRARY OPINION?}
The Lefties:Far right!
{That is what is called a non sequitur..That doesn’t follow!}
The “islamophobia” nonsense.But there is no Christophobia,Hinduphobia.
In the event that you are accused by the cops of being transphobic and they come to your door ,just say you changed your gender/Religion the day before and now you are a gay muslima and by assuming your gender they are guilty of misgendering you and are islamophobic.or “full of hate” as the lefties like to say
“hate speech”=A contrary opinion
“Far right”=people who express opinions at odds wih the leftist view
Wellington says
The entire trans nonsense (N.B., the fraction of 1% of the population who truly believe they are the other sex suffer from a medical disorder; it’s not, nor ever should be, considered an alternative lifestyle and believing so is nothing more than an updated version of the emperor with his new clothes on) is part of a much larger phenomenon, i.e., critical theory, which was developed by the neo-Marxist Frankfurt School in the 1920’s to explain why the utter brilliance of original Marxism had not yet taken hold over all the world and especially in the West.
You see, the overall population, particularly the working class, were too stupid to realize, per Marxthink, what was good for them and so all of societal norms, including concepts of family and gender, had to be eradicated in order to finally usher in a utopian Marxist world. Yes, highly intelligent people like Herbert Marcuse and Eric Fromm propagated and believed this rubbish, which in and of itself should tell people who have kept the built-in crap detector they were born with in regular working order that intellectuals are far more often a menace than practical problem solvers. In any case, the trans garbage (and it is garbage) is nothing more than a subset of critical theory, just as is critical race theory and which has spawned other repressive and counterproductive rubbish like DEI.
Again, and a la Cicero, no matter how much a person may know, if they do not know the past they are still an ignorant human being. Never more so in our time with crap like the entire transgender and DEI pernicious nonsense, courtesy of neo-Marxism. And if one opposes so much nonsense in our era but does not know that so much of it goes back to the Frankfurt School, they are still flailing in the wind. Seeing the big picture is invariably crucial. Yes indeed, knowledge is power.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“Again, and a la Cicero, no matter how much a person may know, if they do not know the past they are still an ignorant human being.”
I have always appreciated the importance of knowing history.
But I did not know, until lately, that the accurate knowledge of history is absolutely critical for the survival of Western civilization.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Wellington and James. I am always amazed at how ignorant many in the West are of our own history–and worse yet, many seem not just complacent about this ignorance, but actually proud of it.
This idiocy also leaves the gates open for anyone who does want to falsify history–since so few have enough knowledge (or even interest, in many cases) to gainsay them. We see the results of this all the time, including as regards Islam, of course.
The West, while having made sometimes serious mistakes, still has the most impressive and priseworthy record of any cuture–and yet it is more commonly condemned than any other cuture. Suicidal madness.
Oswald says
In discussion of this issue there is much obfuscation and dissimulation that rivals the taquiya spread by Muslims. Most cases presenting for gender reassignment are girls approaching or going through puberty if not beyond it. All such people male or female are of course psychologically assessed and in this process what comes up is most of these girls have Asperger’s Syndrome so have an Extreme Male brain, usually they were tomboys as children. Very few cases are biological males seeking to pass as women yet these are the ones which feature in public discussion of such people.
gravenimage says
Oswald, I take your points–but MTF historically used to be the most common form of “transgender”–FTM is catching up, and they are roughly equal at this point.
“Changing Demographics in Transgender Individuals Seeking Hormonal Therapy: Are Trans Women More Common Than Trans Men?”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33644314/
One of the most disturbing things here is that age is dropping. It used to be adults that–for whatever reason–had a long experience of considering themselves to be of the opposite sex.
Now, increasingly, it is vulnerable teenagers who are neither physically or psycholigically mature, who are often subject to pressure from adults–who may suffer harmful hormonal “treatment” and even irreversible surgery before they realize this is something they never wanted.
If an adult wants “gender re-assignment treatment”, fine–but this should *never* be imposed on children.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage says,
“If an adult wants “gender re-assignment treatment”, fine–but this should *never* be imposed on children.”
100% agree, gravenimage.
somehistory says
Politicians will say anything to retain power.
In three weeks time, four women have been murdered in London. The mozlum mayor pretends to care….because he wants a third term in office.
“London murders of four women in three weeks ‘unimaginable’, says Sadiq Khan”
considering that he is a mozlum male, one can guess how much he really cares about these female victims.
One of his opponents says violence against women has increased while kahn has been ruining the city.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/london-murders-of-four-women-in-three-weeks-unimaginable-says-sadiq-khan/ar-BB1lyauY?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=335854f8f9c84a269bc849c682999557&ei=88
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, Somehistory.
gravenimage says
UK Health Minister: The left ‘has spent the last ten years trying to shut women up’ regarding transgender ideology
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Better late than never, I suppose…
Even beloved children’s author J.K. Rowling has been excoriated for supporting “cis”-gendereed women.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage says,
“Even beloved children’s author J.K. Rowling has been excoriated for supporting “cis”-gendereed women.”
Yes, she’s been great on this issue.
But she’s got millions and millions in her bank account to fend off “lawfare”, unlike the average bread-and-butter Brit…