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Nov 12, 2022Liked by Sarah Phillimore

I work in education with children and young people aged 14 and up. Every trans-identifying child I have met, or seen the file of, has multiple challenges; autism, early-childhood trauma, adoption, school refusal, childhood mental illness, ADHD, sometimes eating disorders etc. I know we all know this, but I am just gobsmacked at how education managers still have their eyes and ears closed and aren’t changing policies very quickly (since the Cass Review) to see ‘transition’ as a safeguarding issue, rather than a journey.’ I raise it, but there is such fear and reluctance around this whole area, which has the effect of undermining all other sex-based safeguarding areas (currently around consent and violence against women and girls).

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Nov 12, 2022Liked by Sarah Phillimore

Ms Hirst needs to acknowledge the prejudice she has in this area and recuse herself from giving biased opinions that will set children on a mutilation and medication pathway for life. In my opinion this is experimental treatment as there is no long term evidence to support her suppositions. Children do not have the mental capacity to understand exactly what it is they are signing up for and adults wishing to trans a child should be looked at for munchausen by proxy tendencies. Body dysmorphia, which is the correct term for this social contagion, is increasing at a frequency that is seriously concerning. Her speech does not seem to take account of this or the over abundance of autism and children in care who have been persuaded into this movement. The affirmation only denies the child the correct long term treatment in favour of a short term fix which is not a fix if we take into account the many detranistioners we are currently seeing. Genuine dysphoria is extremely rare and usually amongst boys as the larger cohort, the increased figures for the last decade for girls seems to show that this is a social contagion and calling them trans shouldbe a last resort. No child under the age of 18 should ever be considered for medication and surgery first or at all. The social problems some of the children have need to be investigated first and in considerable depth. The medication alone is carcinogenic, causes heart problems, sterility, dementia, loss of bone density, sepsis as a result of surgeries, baldness, scarring and many other problems. No child uder the age of 18 should be anywhere near this medical malpractice. It is my belief that in a few years time the courts will be full of children who will be suing the doctors and surgeons and endocrinologist and therapists as a whole, no matter that the original doctor just passed them on and denies responsibility as do the rest of them up to the surgeon who is just doing what the previous medical "expertise" required. This must be investigated fully and children must not be pushed into this by outside influences in the schools.

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Nov 12, 2022Liked by Sarah Phillimore

It's worth re-reading the 'Dentons document' in conjunction with the arguments Ms Hirst made in her presentation as they seem to align with the 'wish list' of children's rights outlined by the transgender lobby. You can find the document here:

https://www.iglyo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IGLYO_v3-1.pdf

Very chilling!

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Thank you for raising and sharing this, Sarah. This is important work that you do, pushing back against all of this BS.

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Sarah, how do you reconcile protecting children whilst taking money from anti ECHR hate group ‘Bad Law Team’. A gang of proud Tommy Robinson fanboys. They are whining because Musk won’t reinstate Alex Jones FFS!

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