Trans activists working with SNP to open NEW gender clinic for children
Trans rights activists take part in a demonstration outside Portobello Library, Edinburgh
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Trans activists have been working with the Scottish National Party to open a new gender clinic for children.
Campaigners who dismissed the Cass review and promoted puberty blockers, raised grave concerns about how children with gender issues have been treated.
The group was set up by the Scottish Government in 2022.
A member of the group used their position to spread disinformation rubbishing Cass’ findings, The Telegraph has revealed.
Trans rights activists take part in a demonstration outside Portobello Library, EdinburghPAAn academic who is part of the group attended a protest in Glasgow after Holyrood followed Rishi Sunak’s lead in announcing a ban on puberty blockers.
Dr Ruth Pearce, a lecturer at the University of Glasgow, made a speech at the event in which she labelled the decision “disgusting”.
Dr Pearce later claimed trans people should be able to “do what we want with our own body”, including children.
Campaigners from For Women Scotland demanded the members were removed from their posts.
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A member of the group used their position to spread disinformation to other members which rubbish Hilary Cass's findings
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Positions had come with the remit of improving “the provision of gender identity healthcare within NHS Scotland”.
Trina Budge, a director at For Women Scotland, said: “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.
“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.”
She added: “Members of a group like this should have been seriously and dispassionately reviewing Dr Cass’s findings and working out how to implement them in Scotland as soon as possible.
Trans rights activists take part in a demonstration
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“Instead, they are spreading anti-scientific lies at extremist protest rallies and promoting disinformation to their colleagues.”
The National Gender Identity Healthcare Reference Group oversee the creation of nationally commissioned young person’s gender service in Scotland.
A Scottish Government spokesman said: “The National Gender Identity Healthcare Reference Group includes NHS health board representation, clinicians, academics and the third sector.
“Engagement with a wide range of stakeholders, with a wide range of views, and including those that could be impacted by service or policy change, is standard practice in the public sector.”