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Gay Men's Network: Tavistock 'Primarily A Homophobic Medical Scandal'
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Gay Men's Network: Tavistock 'Primarily A Homophobic Medical Scandal'

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Responding to the Cass Review, Gay Men’s Network said yesterday that the Tavistock GIDS clinic “was primarily a homophobic medical scandal” because the vast majority of children involved were same-sex attracted as they became adults.

In their 30-page response, GMN calls the Cass Review “a damning indictment of the NHS’ vulnerability to malign ideological actors,” deploring that “a ‘standard of care’ that was harmful to a largely same-sex attracted cohort was ever embraced as a norm.”

Clinicians have known for decades that supermajorities of dysphoric children will be same-sex attracted at adulthood. Along with everything else science knew about the human life-cycle, that disturbing fact was forgotten in the rush to “affirm” cross-sex ideation in children.

The authors, former Crown prosecutor Dennis Noel Kavanagh, scientist Hassan Mamdani, and Jonathan Hayward, Director of GMN, call the Cass Review “a watershed moment for gay rights” and “a damning indictment of gay politics that this rea…

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