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the government just folded the entirety of NHS england this week as part of a huge cost-cutting/reorganisation measure. things like clinics specialising in child sex changes have unfortunately been in the front-line of the culture war justifying a lot of this stuff.

sure, i'll read that.

there was quite a lot of back-and-forth about it in the LRB a few years ago. it was one of the only places in the british media to let a worker with extensive experience inside the clinic actually present her perspective, at much greater length than a 10-minute tv interview or newspaper inches would allow. the letters section carried most of the ensuing criticism.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n23 … wren/diary

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n17 … difference

this is only to give the faintest précis – and a fairly genteel, north london intellectual one at that – on a wider story that bubbled for quite a while in the british press about the tavistock clinic and its practices. it did come under a lot of scrutiny, including an official independent review:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati … ent-report

the reply to which you can read by the (now defunct) nhs england bureaucracy:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/nh … ng-people/

this was known as 'the cass review', and it was critical enough of the practice to recommend it to close down. so make of that what you will: the review was independent and consulted widely within the medical profession.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62335665

this was concluded and made its recommendations in 2024. nobody receiving a letter today, in march 2025, would presumably be surprised that major changes were underway in the way that the NHS handles this particular hot potato.

[writing in 2024]:There will be no immediate changes for people already under the Tavistock's care.

Keira Bell, who brought a High Court case against Tavistock challenging its use of puberty blockers, said she was pleased it was closing, adding: "Many children will be saved from going down the path that I went down."

LGBT rights group Stonewall said it was pleased the NHS was addressing "unacceptable" waiting times faced by young trans people trying to access gender-identity healthcare.

tl;dr: this particular institution, which was the 'leading' model institution for this type of care, became enmired in a multi-year saga of shit, including a lot of whistleblowing from inside the building, and came to be a focal point for all sorts of culture wars mudslinging. institutional politics got in the way of medical care (also it was possibly not performing well in its core duties; a number of youth suicides were reported downstream). it was recommended to be closed and for the NHS to rethink/reorganise how it approaches the whole thing.

Last edited by uziq (2025-03-17 05:51:48)

the LRB is pretty funny on occasion, once you get used to its clipped and restrained bloomsbury style.

though even with context, i feel that letter will still look annoying.

to be sure, but just to make the point that it isn't some kneejerk MAGA-lite reactionary thing. there's been official reviews into this topic ongoing for several years now, which unfortunately yes have added to waiting times/delays and complicated treatment.

Last edited by uziq (2025-03-17 07:15:39)

rofl. what is this military cosplay video? why would you pay for this shit? join a gym. do survival school. take scuba lessons. learn a new language. take up martial arts. all that and more without being a massive cuck. is that what they're paying for? having rough hands laid on them? not to kink-shame but 18k is overpaying. if you want to get shouted at just go work pretty much any customer-facing job and wait for a karen.

do they even do any screening? has anybody died yet? are they counting on it so they can put it on the promo?

SuperJail Warden wrote:

The media won't report on this.

they are though.

i don't think leaning on it helps. you reformed yourself irt this stuff and now already fallen back to a slur. what's maga up to?

https://www.newsweek.com/maga-reaction- … er-2120436

"they're crazy to begin with!" yeah, about as expected from that front.

meanwhile, every time a pastor or a high school coach or something like that molests a little kid, conservatives are like "you can't judge the entire job!"

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2025-08-27 18:42:49)

the manifesto was very publicised and shot cinematically. basically read like the incoherent jabberings of a DSM-grade narcissist, though.

as for the political angle and outrage, the guy (gal?) assembled a tableau of reddit/discord memery. just a potpourri of outré and extreme beliefs. the guy painted holocaust taunts on his weapons while shooting up a catholic mass. this is basically just an interpretive free-for-all for cynical pundits.

"A Texas A&M Student is asked to leave a class after challenging a professor on legality of a course mentioning transexuals"
https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout … e_a_class/

I rolled my eyes harder at her citing her religious beliefs than quoting Trump. I don't want to hear about the religious beliefs of any Prot.

Hilarious that the NRA is defending trans people's rights to own guns.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

uziq wrote:

stop being so performative.

Go take a Benadryl

catholic zealot living and sleeping out of wedlock with his unbaptized asian girlfriend.

spare the protestants your contempt.

uziq wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

uziq wrote:

stop being so performative.

Go take a Benadryl

catholic zealot living and sleeping out of wedlock with his unbaptized asian girlfriend.

spare the protestants your contempt.

I tried talking her into it and she won't even put on a crucifix.

I have to take off my crucifix before sex or else it will smack the girls in the face.

Speaking of minorities...my MAGA assistant is a Pole who married into an Irish family. She talked about bringing prayer back into schools after Trump signed the executive order.

I strongly said fuck that. No way. I explained that I don't want religion in school like that. I wouldn't want to teach theology in schools. I wouldn't even want to teach Catholic shit to the kids.

She tried to switch gears and said "all religions would have space to be celebrated and talked about in schools." I had to explain to her that ecumenism in Catholicism is a Vatican II invention and her beliefs about how "all religions would be equal" is historical heresy. She then mentioned a concert at the Vatican and how "things can change and more forward" and I started berating her about her advocating moral relativism.

Finally she just said "well I guess I know where you stand."

Yeah "who counts as a Christian" is a big part of the reason I don't want Christianity in schools. I don't want to entertain nonsense about how Trump is blessed by God or something.

I wanted to ask her "What type of Catholic are you?' to see what her reaction would be.

I doubt she knows that she is in communion with a bunch of Arabs in the middle East. Our school has a huge Coptic community. She hates them.