Cass Scandal is good - it's not to loaded to prevent discourse, I also like Cass Hoax or Cass Farce - both have square aim that the report is disingenuous.
Andrew Wakefield = The Lancet MMR autism fraud, a 1998 study that fraudulently claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. Cass report fraud = NHS 2024 study misrepresenting data leading to harmful consequences for trans people. Cass = Andrew Wakefield.
Guys stupid puns for this kind of thing are so lame. The idea is to communicate to the public that the Review is bullshit and harmful, not that you're a snarky teenager
I’m still so maddeningly angry about the cass scandal. From an academic standpoint it is a disingenuous trainwreck and should never have been allowed to be published.
I had a thought earlier but forgot to post: The Cass 'Justification'? You don't need to justify your ideas. You just say the cass report. . . and the bigots think they have won the argument, lots haven't read it at all or cherry-pick elements.
My thoughts were similar; "the Cass scandal" sounds like an event, so it'd feel odd to say "if you actually read the Cass scandal," but I don't know offhand of any better words that scan better for referring to a document.
What about something like Cass Farce or "So-called Cass Report"? (I have no stake in any particular name, and I'm happy to get on board with whatever sticks, just spitballing).
Thing is if you say ‘The Wakefield Scandal’ *now* then it’s pretty obvious what you mean but if you’d said it in the early 2000s when people were still taking Wakefield seriously they could have thought you meant the opposite.
And unfortunately for Cass we’re in the taken-seriously period.
The issue I have with Cass Scandal is that some may interpret it (deliberately) as meaning a scandal uncovered by Cass. I prefer talking of Discredited Cass Review and to personalise it as Victims of the Cass Review when talking of the young people harmed by it.
The best I can think of after half a glass of wine, is the pseudoscientific, politically motivated Cass policy document, though I concede it is a bit of a mouthful.
I've been reading about it recently, apparently the BMA inquiry into the review was slated to come out at the end of the year. I wonder if that's still the case
No. It isn’t. The point of calling it “the Cass scandal” is to make people who aren’t familiar with it start to associate it with something dubious. The right are very good at this sort of thing. We need to get better.
Idk why you're coming for me, I literally just said that Casslighting was clever wordplay. Not a universal proclamation that Casslighting is the only acceptable word. 👍 (Also fwiw even 'Cass Scandal' will probably need to be supported by some explanation, that's how things stick.)
I personally think scandal is just the best way to go, if it's too long people will just drop it after a bit and scandal just is simple and to the point
Either that or Cass sham report which also works in any context without being pun-based or too over the top and sets the stage for it becoming a scandal when the sham is more widely recognised
I'd say "scandal" is still better, as it takes into account the wider context. Had the report been completely disregarded, then calling it a sham would be entirely appropriate, but now that trans children are being abused by neglect, it's become a scandal.
To me, the "Review" contains references to actual literature reviews which most people will not read, embedded in what is essentially a transphobia press pack, offering ways of framing and interpreting the actual review, bundled with sloganeering and soundbites to go into media reports.
Anybody familiar with official reports or academia, will know that this is not an actual official report. They don't have a dedicated graphic designer and logo, like a company report. This is a press pack designed to persuade.
It’s called epistemic weaponisation so basically cherry picking studies, excluding relevant evidence and framing the result to target and stigmatise us whilst hiding behind a very think veneer (cascade) of scientific rigour
I have been using Cass anti trans propaganda from day one when I read it. It is literally hate propaganda akin to what the fascists put out to radicalise people.
I use Cass Weapon fairly regularly given she manufactured the thing, carefully polished it to suit and NEVER once has she stood up and said to Atkins Starmer and Streeting - "Oi you're misusing my weapon to cause permanent harm to the kids. Leave them kids alone!" Get her in court. Then civil suits.
Sadly, it doesn't matter - you always end up back where you started, with people who have some idea of what they are talking about, and those who don't.
Those who don't have no interest in learning, or they wouldn't have formed their "opinions" in the first place.
Normal people > Gender Critical people > literally Hitler himself > people who call transphobes FARTs and think they're clever/funny/achieving something
I realised we’d probably lost a few years ago when working with Stonewall and Ruth Hunt had gone into Channel 4 to talk to them and she mentioned “the TERFs”, and the newsroom people were suddenly shocked and all, “you can’t say that word!”
That reminds me of when I went into a redundancy meeting and the HR representative turned to my union rep and made a point of showing how matey they were.
Agreed. He's not some rogue actor his party is unable to rein in. He's a sitting government minister who could be rebuked, countermanded, or removed from office if they actually disagreed with him.
Your suggestion of "Cass Scandal" has got me thinking, I was just writing a piece for FGEN, I included this; The Cass Scandal includes all the other stuff, like the media and political support it needed to achieve its aim...
There is more to Cass than the review though, so scandal includes the way Cass was chosen, the way she was rewarded and all the Trans voices she chose to ignore
We should stop being so precise in our language & just paint in broad strokes. Globally discredited non-expert pediatrician Hillary Cass promotes child abuse. Simple as.
I've been mostly calling it "that stupid ass anti-trans report made by that fake ass doctor"...but I do agree with you, for no other reason, just for brevity's sake.
The fact that the Tory party gifted Cass a peerage straight after she produced the work for them should, really, have set alarm bells ringing. In saner times, it would have.
It is Labour’s baby now, as indicated in the FEGM article.
I was referring to it as the "C*** Review" while people were namesearching it, but then I got worried that people would think I meant "Cunt Review", and as an Australian my honour does not allow me to self-censor the word "cunt"
Scandal is great because it inspires the want to know more about what it is about, instead of a pun which just feels like trolling, which we are all conditioned to ignore at this point.
I think that has been a societal thing for a while.
It does not seem to be a left/right thing a lot of people I used to think of as progressive seem to have become Terfs.
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But I agree, Cass needs to be exclusively referred to in only terms that underscore the scandal and harm she's done.
Because that is fundamentally and objectively what it is. A fraud.
Cass "Review"
And unfortunately for Cass we’re in the taken-seriously period.
'Discredited Cass Review' avoids misinterpretation.
Calling it the Cass-tastrophe is funny but also makes you sound like Donald Trump saying "Crooked Hillary."
It's biased and people will dismiss you.
“Casslighting” will mean nothing in that context.
Cass Scandal (n): the denial of puberty blockers to trans kids based on the Cass Report.
Casslighting (v): using the scientifically flawed conclusions advanced in the Cass Scandal to justify mistreatment of trans people.
Hehe gottem
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Cass Panic.
Because it's part of a moral panic,
And there's also an obscure reference to Gas Panic! a famous bar in Tokyo, named after the sarin attack on Tokyo underground.
it feels like there must be a science-specific word for this.
Sounds like a Star Wars NPC.
I also kind of like “Cass’s Transphobic Manifesto” because it connotes the essentially political nature of her work.
Those who don't have no interest in learning, or they wouldn't have formed their "opinions" in the first place.
i jus wanna slap ppl through my phone at this point.
I also think we should blame this on the Labour Party more than Streeting. The Party as a whole needs to be held accountable .
“Labour’s Section 28”
It gives us a term to talk about the whole thing.
Seems appropriate.
Few other ideas:
"Cass Fraud", "Cass Manipulation"
It indicates my low regard and dismissal without being witty or clever.
It's undeserving of that effort or respect.
Reminiscent of the "cash-for-honours scandal", because we all kinda know she wasn't getting that peerage if she didn't write that horrific garbage.
It is Labour’s baby now, as indicated in the FEGM article.
This is about dirty pervert men who like young boys.
Terry Pratchett
It does not seem to be a left/right thing a lot of people I used to think of as progressive seem to have become Terfs.