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[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi.[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Additional archive since the full text isn't in the Wayback Machine: https://imgur.com/a/Nlkfdoe

[–]JulienMayfair 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wow. I was predicting that these lawsuits weren't going to materialize for another 10-15 years. But it was pretty guaranteed that they were.

This is what happens when you use kids as guinea pigs with no evidence that your "treatment" is going to have a positive outcome.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hope all the dirt comes out and TRAs can no longer pretend that mass transing is not harming anyone.

[–]reluctant_commenter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks so much for sharing this. This is freaking amazing. This has been years in the making... and now everything's finally starting to boil over.

I hope they win. I feel so much for those kids who were pressured into medical transition, and their parents who were misled about the side effects of what was being given to their children. They're brave for standing up and doing this. More power to them!

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I don't know how putative class actions work in the UK and it looks like nothing has been filed yet, but I'll be curious to see how this turns out. Notably this is an international law firm that also has medical product liability teams in the United States (and the Netherlands), which makes me wonder if things pick up in the putative UK action whether they will begin pursuing cases in the U.S. After all, U.S. products liability class actions are cash cows.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi.[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's definitely an interesting element of this, yes.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, and it absolutely works to our benefit that things kick off in the UK first where there is more centralization of health information, the ongoing Cass Review, and lack of the Big Pharma stranglehold on politicians. Everything that comes out in the UK action can be used to lay a case in the United States without having to worry about setting bad precedent in the U.S. first. Plus I think UK litigation moves much more quickly than U.S. litigation.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi.[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have been wondering about how the UK situation could benefit actions in the US. It seems inevitable that outcomes there could and would be incorporated here, so this is great insight to have, thank you. It would be great if all of their hard work wasn't isolated to their own borders.