The UK is waking up. Australia is sleep-walking

We wanted to update you on the fast-moving events in the world of gender medicine and trans ideology.  

 The Cass Final Review by the UK’s Dr Hilary Cass was published on Wednesday 10th April.  We urge you to read it as it has implications for everyone who has experienced gender confusion or homophobia and wants to protect young lesbian and gay youth from being encouraged down a medical pathway. 

 The Cass report helps to explain the rapid growth of the number of gender-confused youth across the Anglosphere. The conditions are the same in each country; social contagion and the promotion of gender ideology by trans lobby activists in education, law, the media and health medicine. In this comprehensive systematic review of the evidence, Dr Cass cautions that extreme care should be taken before anyone under the age of 25 transitions. 

 “This is an area of remarkably weak evidence.… the reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress”.  

 The Cass review is only the latest international review undoing decades of misinformation on the transitioning of children and painting a picture of medical malpractice. The review follows closely on the heels of the decision by NHS England to stop prescribing puberty blockers after a clinical review found there is;  

 “Not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of PBs [puberty blockers] to make the treatment routinely available”.  

In the report, Dr Cass said children have been “let down” by the NHS, health professionals and a “woeful” lack of evidence about what treatment works”, and “One of the things that has let them down is that the toxicity of the debate has been so great that people have become afraid to work in this area”.  

 Below are the main points of the review: 

 1. Clinicians are unable to determine with any certainty which children and young people will go on to have an enduring trans identity while 89 per cent of gender-confused girls and 81 percent of gender confused boys are same-sex attracted. 

2. Systematic evidence reviews demonstrated the poor quality of the published studies, meaning there is not a reliable evidence base to make clinical decisions, or for children and their families to make informed choices.  

3.The rationale for early puberty suppression remains unclear, with weak evidence on the impact on gender dysphoria, mental or psychosocial health.  

4. The increase in the numbers of young people who are gender diverse is driven by a complex interplay between biological, psychological and social factors including the influence of social media and peer influence.  

 5. For most young people, a medical pathway will not be the best way to manage their gender-related distress. For those young people for whom a medical pathway is clinically indicated, it is not enough to provide this without also addressing wider mental health and/or psychosocially challenging problems. 

 6. The use of masculinising / feminising hormones in those under the age of 18 also presents many unknowns. The lack of long-term follow-up data on those commencing treatment at an earlier age means we have inadequate information about the range of outcomes for this group. 

This is a watershed moment in the UK.  Politicians from both sides of the aisle are waking up to the medical scandal perpetrated against vulnerable children and youth. There was only one NHS gender clinic that agreed to work with Dr Cass while every other UK gender clinic wilfully obstructed her work.  

 Kate Barker from LBG Alliance, said: “It is deeply troubling that attempts to gather evidence for the Cass review have been deliberately blocked. All of its recommendations are at risk whilst institutions remain captured by zealous, anti-science proponents of gender identity ideology.” 

 Professor Michael Biggs who was an original whistle-blower regarding the inadequate care given to children at the UK’s Tavistock gender clinic said it was “disgraceful that gender clinicians employed by the NHS wilfully obstructed Hilary Cass’s attempt to undertake research as part of her review”. 

 Both major UK political parties have committed to implement all of the recommendations in the review.  

Finally. The UK wakes up.  But what about Australia? We have seen a doubling down by trans activists since the publication of the report who are scurrying around government ministers and the media peddling the myth that there is ‘nothing to see here, Australia is different’.   

 Australia is not different. Only slower and more captured with dissenting voices shouted down.  We’ve had enough. At LGB Alliance Australia we are going to work very hard to make the voices of gays, lesbians and bisexuals who want to protect this generation of LGB youth heard in Australia.  We want to stop the juggernaut of gender ideology that is being force fed onto an unsuspecting public and vulnerable children.    

 We need your help.  We need more in our community to speak out.  We will bring together local groups, rebuild our community, fight for the rights to hold same-sex events and stop the medicalisation of LGB youth.