The UK's Autism "Tests" are concerning
The NHS, the UK's health agency, is now requiring any trans teens to get screened for autism.
God, another story from TERF Island? Ugh.
So the NHS, the UK’s health agency, is now implementing tests for autism and ADHD before any UK teens can get HRT, branding them as getting screened for “neurodevelopmental conditions”.
Okay, so you’re off rip, making the claim that the dysphoria is rooted in the autism or the ADHD. Not anything surprising, coming from TERF Island, especially after the Supreme Court ruling.
Hm? What’s this? The doctors can decide whether or not the trans child is eligible for HRT or if their dysphoria is rooted in their autism? Well, fuck.
And its based off the Cass Review? That makes it even worse.
Now, as I’ve said earlier, I’m not a medical professional, so I’m not going to delve too deeply into this, as its not my field of expertise, but anyone with basic reason can say that this just bullshit.
While there is a connection between these three roads, that connection does not mean that gender dysphoria is caused by any of these things or that these things cause gender dysphoria.
Again, not a medical professional, but come on. This is just bullshit. Trying to mask your bigotry? It not even well masked, just thinly veiled. Making the claim that gender dysphoria is caused by autism, therefore,no HRT for you?
Are we being serious? Like come on.
Hm? What's this? It's based off of the Cass Review?
That's right. This massive croc of pseudoscience is based off of the Cass Review, a review that has next to no science in it, or any scientific integrity. It spouts complete bullshit and owns it.
This is actually somewhat common among conservative news outlets in the UK, with the Daily Mail and The Telegraph being heavy peddlers of it. They’ve kept pushing incredibly transphobic and mind-numbingly stupid articles like this:
and this:
Its not just conservative outlets in the UK either. Look to Canada and it gets worse.
They peddle easily provable lies, such as being trans is a social contagion, (a can of worms I wont bother to touch, as its easily disprovable), they are easily influenced, and that autistic schoolchildren in Canada are being pressured to transition.
Jesus Christmas Christ.
Now like I said, there is a connection between being trans and having autism. Nature has a really good study about this, explaining the nitty-gritty in ways I could never, since I’m not a medical professional.
But this, the shit from these jokes of news outlets, it’s just vile. Not an ounce of it has any journalistic integrity, its just spouting hate under the guise of “journalism” and “science”.
They are just versions of the tabloids that we have in States. Just peddling absolute nonsense, and being hateful.
It’s so genuinely astonishing, but not surprising to see this, especially coming from someone in the States, where trans rights are being whittled away seemingly with each passing day.
These articles, as well as the jokes of news outlets that published them, are completely complicit in the elimination of trans rights in the UK.
They consistently push absolutely asinine and hateful transphobic talking points that are easily disprovable, and do it under the guise of “science”.
Its honestly sickening, but the cynic in me believes that nothing will be done to seriously stop these jokes of news publications. I do hope I’m proven wrong though.