What a marvelous read, thank you. Does this feel like the end of a particularly sorry period, or just the very start of the end? I worry that so many influencial people have bought into this ideology that we need many more Cass Reports before things really start moving...
It’s infuriating, but we always knew that most of the Be Kind brigade was just collecting social points and would turn with the tide, never acknowledging they were doing so. It does make the bravery of the people who spoke up early and often even more impressive.
The ones who I wonder about now, though are those like your former editor who have gone way down the rabbit hole of “Western science is oppressive/we need to privilege personal rationalisations” and who still seem to be dotted all over our media landscape.
I’m thinking of the TV writer who’s currently plugging her book on using psychedelics to manage her longstanding MH issues, and an interview she conducted with an Imperial College researcher for R4’s One to One. I listened to it after Cass came out and it was striking in how it illustrates the sort of assumptions and groupthink that underpinned what we’ve seen around the lack of interest in the efficacy of gender medicine. Really has to be heard to be believed, but in light of Cass the fact it was commissioned and broadcast is pretty sobering.
What a marvelous read, thank you. Does this feel like the end of a particularly sorry period, or just the very start of the end? I worry that so many influencial people have bought into this ideology that we need many more Cass Reports before things really start moving...
Also are you starting in feel "uncancelled"?
It’s infuriating, but we always knew that most of the Be Kind brigade was just collecting social points and would turn with the tide, never acknowledging they were doing so. It does make the bravery of the people who spoke up early and often even more impressive.
The ones who I wonder about now, though are those like your former editor who have gone way down the rabbit hole of “Western science is oppressive/we need to privilege personal rationalisations” and who still seem to be dotted all over our media landscape.
I’m thinking of the TV writer who’s currently plugging her book on using psychedelics to manage her longstanding MH issues, and an interview she conducted with an Imperial College researcher for R4’s One to One. I listened to it after Cass came out and it was striking in how it illustrates the sort of assumptions and groupthink that underpinned what we’ve seen around the lack of interest in the efficacy of gender medicine. Really has to be heard to be believed, but in light of Cass the fact it was commissioned and broadcast is pretty sobering.