The Cass Review of NHS gender identity services for under-18s in England faced false claims online, alleging that 98% of available research was disregarded, which Dr. Hilary Cass refuted as 'completely incorrect.' Activist-blogger Erin Reed perpetuated these falsehoods despite denouncement, prompting a detailed fact check by journalist Ben Ryan. Reed's persistent dissemination of misinformation led to her blocking Ryan after he debunked her claims about the review and pediatric gender medicine. The review also refuted Reed's assertion that they did not consult trans individuals or care providers. Reed continued to assert her expertise in pediatric gender medicine over Dr. Cass, despite the latter's extensive experience on the review.
Update: Erin Reed hyperlinked to the wrong systematic lit review about post-gender-transition surgery regret rates in a new blog post. Reed just sent out the correct link. So I deleted my thread about Reed falsely claiming there was a new paper out. https://t.co/UkR908NJOX
Erin Reed's new tack is to take the truth I tell about her and turn it into a lie about me. Reed is an activist-blogger. She identifies as an activist and makes a living blogging, not from professional journalism. I'm not an activist and have been a pro reporter for 23 years. https://t.co/4Urw312p9m
Activist Erin Reed continues to assert having more knowledge about pediatric gender medicine than pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass, who spent nearly four years on the Cass Review. Reed here insists that, actually, the lack of longterm follow up problem Cass ID’d has been solved. https://t.co/SupCHXQiFB
The Cass Review has come out to debunk Erin Reed's false claim to @EmmaVigeland on @MajorityFM that the Cass team did not speak to trans people or their care providers. Will Vigeland and @SamSeder run a correction? Cass says: Did the Review speak to any gender-questioning and… https://t.co/yr2JWlnJec
Activist-blogger Erin Reed said she hadn't paid much mind to my exhaustive fact check of her fusillade of falsehoods about the Cass Review and pediatric gender medicine. So I tweeted at her my Twitter analytics from the past 7 days and she promptly blocked me. https://t.co/Xk6WjWY9kf https://t.co/UBrK5RlGZI
My first piece into the Cass review of gender identity services in the UK looks at how the review described the increase in trans identification in kids, and what it got wrong. https://t.co/Z1IfNVEorv
After I fact checked Erin Reed's fusillade of falsehoods about England's Cass Review and pediatric gender medicine, untruths Dr. Hilary Cass herself denounce as harmful misinformation, the activist blogger has finally blocked me. @ErinInTheMorn https://t.co/7nw7R2Ou02
Erin Reed's take on me: "I haven’t paid him much attention because he’s got no reach." My account analytics for the past week, as I've been fact checking Reed, Alejandra Caraballo and Mallory Moore's false claims about the Cass Review and pediatric gender-transition treatment: https://t.co/mEsl6Kji9Z
Erin Reed's only response to my detailed fact check about the fusillade of falsehoods she's published about the Cass Review is this: a falsehood about the responses to my tweet about misgendering. Reed is falsely claiming I published disinformation about her--quite the opposite.… https://t.co/RaSlULhyRU
During the first two weeks after the publication of the Cass Review in England, influential trans activist-blogger Erin Reed published or tweeted a fusillade of falsehoods about the report and pediatric gender-transition treatment. I published a detailed fact check: https://t.co/5hVOVvqT6I
"Activist-Blogger Erin Reed Can't Stop Telling Falsehoods About Gender Medicine", by @benryanwriter. Includes some notable comments from @eanderh. https://t.co/088nVooLWX https://t.co/gCWDoikDZn
This is excellent: Activist-Blogger Erin Reed Can’t Stop Telling Falsehoods About Gender Medicine https://t.co/VdIPe2Au1S
Activist-Blogger Erin Reed Can't Stop Telling Falsehoods About Gender Medicine Even when fact checked, Erin Reed, who has a popular Substack and X account, has repeatedly made demonstrably false claims about England's Cass Review and about pediatric gender medicine, I report. https://t.co/IumTLm67gw
After Dr. Hilary Cass explains to the @BBC why it was incorrect to claim that the Cass Review disregarded most of the evidence on pediatric gender-transition treatment, Erin Reed simply repeats the same false claim. https://t.co/0Jx3FQfTCV https://t.co/q07dyXgUeG
After Hilary Cass denounced as “disinformation” the false claim that she disregarded considerable research about pediatric gender care for the Cass Review, Erin Reed, one of the most prominent people on X to push this claim, praises the criticism of disinformation about Cass. https://t.co/4gEQtLgNcL
How did the British LGBTQ group @StonewallUK come to the false impression that the Cass Review discarded most of the available studies about pediatric gender-transition treatment? It was because of false claims by activists @esqueer_ and @chican3ry. I explain here: https://t.co/EkS0yy1mKz
Did @TheCassReview - the review of NHS gender identity services for under-18s in England - throw out 98% of the available research? That claim was spreading online before the report was even published. It is “completely incorrect” says @Hilary_Cass A More or Less thread.🧵1/8