Is the NHS "Pathways" program, to conduct ethically-suspect RCT experimentation on TGD adolescent care in the U.K., sham science? Is the fix in? The Chief Investigator, Dr. Emily Simonoff, has no apparent experience, training, or scholarship with Trans and Gender Diverse medical care.

The Chief Investigator of the NHS "Pathways" study is Professor Emily Simonoff of King's College London. Google Scholar lists 468 academic publications, 319 of these on topics of autism or ADHD. However, none of these titles involved Transgender or Gender Diverse health topics. Not a single one.

For a deep dive, here is the link to the NHS/King's College London web site for the "Pathways" program. I've read through much of the protocol text, and my heart is shattered for all TGD youth in the U.K., including the ones ensnared in this experimentation.

www.kcl.ac.uk/research/pat...

Blood on their hands, continued-- Link to 2025 Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, 7th Ed.:
www.usccb.org/resources/et...

[Updated Nov 20]
The Remembering Our Dead Project, the Trans Violence News Facebook group, the Trans Remembrance Project, and community sources report 57 deaths of Transgender and Gender Diverse people in the United States to violence and suicide driven by societal hate.

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Thank you, Julia! Sharing.

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You raise an important point. But, as a nerd, I was never all that fond of "transition" to begin with. How can we get "regeneration" to catch on?

Statement from the ACLU on BlueSky:

“This decision undermines the freedom of transgender, non-binary, and intersex people to have our IDs reflect who we are. This fight isn’t over. Our case challenging President Trump’s executive order will still move forward."

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