“Helping”
Trans rights activists who have publicly trashed the Cass Review and promote puberty blockers are helping the SNP set up a new NHS child gender service in Scotland.
Why should there even be a “child gender service”? Why not a child service for children who think they’re birds? Stick them full of feathers and teach them to fly, yeah?
The Telegraph has seen evidence that a member of the group, which includes activist organisations and academics as well as doctors, used
theirposition to spread disinformation to other members which rubbish[es] Hilary Cass’s findings.
Much bad unclear writing in this piece, unfortunately. The group includes activist organisations and academics as well as doctors. The Telegraph has seen evidence that a member of the group used her [or his] position to tell lies about Cass’s findings.
“Members of this so-called healthcare group are being allowed to abuse their positions with attempts to rubbish the most comprehensive study of its kind ever carried out,” Trina Budge, a director at For Women Scotland, said. “They should not have been let anywhere near positions of influence over the NHS in the first place. But given their behaviour, continued membership is clearly untenable and they must be removed immediately.”
But they won’t be.
An email sent on April 16 by a representative of the organisation TransparentSees, the day before a group meeting was due to take place, urged members to read about “10 potentially dangerous items in the Cass Review”. An online blog it referred to claimed the Cass Review was “biased and prejudice-driven” and that the findings would “cause significant harms to trans children”. It added that the report recommendations were “built on a foundation of prejudice, ignorance, cisnormativity and pathologisation of trans lives”, and accused Dr Cass of promoting “a form of conversion therapy”.
What, medically speaking, is “cisnormativity”? Is it parallel to “two legs normativity” and “being able to see normativity” and “having a head at the top of the neck normativity”? Some people have amputations; some people are blind; some people are beheaded; does that mean it’s cruel and wicked to prefer to have two legs, and eyesight, and a head?
I think that yes, the ultimate end of all their Theory is, in fact, to deny that it’s preferable to have two legs and ten fingers and two functioning eyes, or to be at a healthy weight, or to be sane. All these are restrictions and limitations imposed by an oppressive reality, and true liberation can only be achieved when all oppressive systems are overthrown. They have no correctness criteria, no way to say that they’ve reached their goal, because they can’t even define their goal. Queer Theory is actually upfront about the limitless nature of its project, explicitly defining itself in eternal opposition to whatever is normal or legitimate. It will continue tearing things up and down until nothing remains.
Behold the Nothing.
Merci a bunch Foucault.
Indeed. One of these days I’m going to have to get around to thoroughly reading all of Nietzsche and his critiques of nihilism. I mean, that’s basically where all this leads.
Also, I just realized that “overthrown” got autocorrected to “overgrown”, because of course it did.
Tsk. Fixed.
Thankee kindly, sai.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a paragraph as short as this that let me dab so many squares at once on my Trans Projection Bingo card.
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