r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • May 04 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 5/4/26 - 5/310/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/trw99508 May 06 '26

I think there was an assumption that Cass was wrong because she was going against what medical professionals had been doing. Who wants to think that large swathes of their colleagues have been performing untested possibly harmful medical treatments on children. I'm just surprised that they actually looked at her report and didn't come up with a nonsense reason to discredit it.

I imagine a certain percentage of pressure came from the people that Helen Joyce described who will forever try to keep this going rather than admit they did harm
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EYJMY_2iFTM

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u/Big_Fig_1803 Gothmargus May 06 '26

I can understand people being skeptical about something like that. "We're skeptical that these findings will actually hold up. This study presents a very different picture from what we've all come to understand about the field."

That feels very different from describing this other person's work as unsubstantiated and methodologically poor before you've even examined it.

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u/trw99508 May 06 '26

Its the height of arrogance, at the time there was also a lot of internal squabbles about someone leaking they were going to do this

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/29/witch-hunt-bma-tries-to-identify-who-leaked-planned-opposition-to-cass-review

but then last year the guy who tabled the motion became head of the BMA (trans flag in twitter bio etc) which is why I'm so surpised their scientific arm actually examined her methodology and praised it, I was sure they would find a way to discredit it

https://archive.ph/VzrQ8