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When Cults Fail
Many people (including me) have described some responses to the Cass Report as being “cult-like”. Is this really a stretch?
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What Does An 11 Year-Old Fully Understand?
A self-declared anonymous expert in “advanced developmental psychology”, has contacted me to disagree with several things I’ve written on the transgender issue.
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After Cass, The Dishonest Backtracking Begins
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.
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A Predictable Response To The Cass Review
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.
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Delay In Implementing Cass Recommendations
The deranged cultists who refused to believe the facts and evidence included in the interim Cass Report, will not be convinced by the latest reporting. However, at least it is useful to note who rushed to join the demented online mobs screaming “transphobe” at those who recognised reality.
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What Does The Interim Cass Report Actually Say?
I have recently been accused of publishing false and misleading information about the Cass Report. In response, it is useful to provide some direct quotes from the document itself, a summary of the mainstream reporting about the findings, and details from the NHS announcement that followed the publication of the report.
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Is It Wrong To Sterilise Gay Children?
When discussing the prescription of puberty blockers to 11 year-olds, I had thought that there was dispute about whether or not these drugs can cause sterilisation. I was surprised that some people agreed on this point, but remain perfectly sanguine about the unnecessary sterilisation of gay children.
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How Suggestible Are 11 Year-Olds?
If a distressed 11 year-old child reports that they are “trans”, should this be considered a reliable basis on which to prescribe life-altering medical interventions? I think not, but others disagree in interesting ways.
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Is There Settled Science On Gender Dysphoria?
I was pretty amazed at the reaction to a Steve McRae tweet recently. Pointing to where science can offer high levels of certainty and where more research is required, is not bigotry.
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Criticism From The Dualists
Recently I wrote an article that described why some commentary within the transgender debate implied Cartesian Dualism. I argued that dualism is wrong, but I have received some criticism of that article from dualists.