As the scale of the medical scandal around ‘gender-affirming care’ becomes clear, there will be many attempts to salvage reputations through retcon and memory hole. Here is an early and egregious example.
I was recently informed by the writer Barry Purcell that there is “robust data” supporting the prescription of powerful hormones to gender dysphoric children. I asked him to cite the data he had in mind and in fairness to him, he has done just that.
I have been informed several times recently that The Cass Report has mistreated the available data on the efficacy of gender affirming care. Perhaps Barry Purcell is indeed aware of a fundamental problem that I have missed?
A self-declared anonymous expert in “advanced developmental psychology”, has contacted me to disagree with several things I’ve written on the transgender issue.
As many people have expected, now that the final Cass Report has described the toxic environment that allowed an appalling medical scandal to persist, those who created that environment have begun efforts to dishonestly rewrite history.
The Backfire Effect describes a psychological phenomenon whereby incontrovertible evidence against their position actually causes ideologues and cultists to double down on their delusions, rather than re-evaluate their views.