@Gideon : It might be interesting to know that an extreme-right politician with religious-extremist political views (called trans people pedophiles in 2021 when debating a Self-ID law change in The Netherlands) used the "50 times increase" in an even more egregious way.
He did the "Cass thing" by saying (in questions to our minister of National Health, Sports and Wellbeing about the Cass report) "Is the minister aware and concerned that there appears to be a 5000% increase in children with gender dysphoria?" and left out the beginning number, or the timespan.
It is also deeply concerning that these politicians are so willing to confuse referrals with diagnosis...
We are dealing with a fully fascist government that has been attempting to overthrow democracy on certain key elements a couple of times by now, and it has failed multiple times, but the attacks on trans people are ongoing to this day.
2 much more recent attacks were trying to do "black sheep" politics on mental healthcare for children by arguing (in questions to the state secretary of National Health, Wellbeing and Sports) that trans children were using up all available capacity and that there should be a push to declare that mental healthcare should only be given to "the correct children and not those confused by a mental delusion instilled in their minds by radical gender ideology."
If you looked at data involving trans children compared to all children in mental healthcare, the amount was astonishingly low: a little more than 1% was on the waiting list after being referred to transgender healthcare.
And the rest? Being targeted by the same politicians who are more than happy to do a 226 million euro's funding cutback to children's mental healthcare systems in 2026. It was scheduled for 2025 but opposition parties managed to get that one scrapped.
Currently, they are crying about the "mistakes that are never allowed to happen ever again", in the foster-parent system after severe abuse of a child taken out of custody of the biological mother, with whom she might actually have been better off given the severe abuse she suffered under the hands of her foster parents of whom earlier signals had been completely ignored.
Another recent attack has been a different party being "concerned about the decreasing support and tolerance for LGBTQI+ people". This party, just like the party I talked about earlier both refused to sign what is called "The Rainbow Agreement", a statement with which you declare as a political party not to design legislation to attack sexual minorities with, or in general, discriminate against a group of people.
This party openly welcomed a former lawyer who in 2023 at 54 years of age openly attacked a 22-year old trans woman after she won a Miss Netherlands beauty pageant. Mind you, this pageant never concerned this former lawyer ever before. But now she was radicalized and decided to jump on the controverse-Intercity train towards fascism.
To be clear how radical she is: she has been convicted for group discrimination of muslim people. The remark leading to this continues to be labeled by her as "Incredibly nuanced".
She considers transphobia humor, calls herself a feminist but shares manosphere material on her Instagram profile. She would fit the MAGA-type of Republican very, VERY well.
The same party openly welcomed a party member from a different party who compared scrapping the self-ID law change with "protecting children from the pedophile organisation Martijn".
This organisation sounds more scary and problematic than it really is: it was an organisation that tried to argue for more humane debates around people with this preference, it didn't promote pedosexuality nor did people who were convicted were welcome, it just tried to remain in contact with a society that increasingly is out to lynch them or even at the mere rumour someone might be a pedophile decides to take matters in their own hands.
The first party I talked about tried to revoke patient-doctor confidentiality of trans children so they could look at their medical records: the person doing this is convinced doctors are overdiagnosing these children, and tried to insinuate that ever since this massive increase in referrals all these children were seen in time, without waiting lists and that we were already well aware of the complete image of this new demographic.
A member of the same party that made the 5000% increase remark was responsible for this in mid February 2024 and is called Rosanne Hertzberger. She is a former microbiologist having worked in the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, at just 500 meters distance of the VU Medical Centre that once pioneered with the treatment of trans children. Her call for research "into the long-term effects of puberty blockers" of course solely focused on trans children, not cis-gender children, because apparently they are somehow perfectly safe there.
Problem for her is that the research she called for WAS ALREADY RUNNING for 2 years in the VU Medical Centre in Amsterdam. A former microbiologist failing to be capable of finding out that this is the case, understandably concerned many pro-trans organisations and trans people themselves: all were deeply worried about her supposed integrety and cautious approach to this research. And given the typical truth-and-science-hating nature of extreme-right politicians, they were also concerned whether she actually was interested in the outcome.
She quit her position November 2024 "after concerns over unjust language towards minorities", this in relation to the poorly handled and selective response to riots in Amsterdam between Maccabi soccer hooligans and muslim people eventually retaliating due to police leaving the fighting Maccabi hooligans to their own devices but slammed down hard when muslim people eventually retaliated (my country has a serious bias problem involving protecting Israël at ALL cost).
Unfortunately journalists utterly failed to verbally knock her teeth out by asking about her own hypocrisy about targeting minorities.
The Dutch media unfortunately has been proven equally as useless as the US in strongly condemning extreme-right rhetoric, politicians and their policy.
Another party member of the same party 2 months after trying to revoke patient-doctor confidentiality of trans children called all trans people and even trans children serial rapists.
This party is called New Social Contract by the way, abbreviated to NSC, which QUICKLY drew the comparison in people that it had a very, VERY problematic sounding connotation with NSB, the only political party allowed during the Second World War and was an NSDAP-daughterparty of the party of Adolf Hitler.
NSB is the abbrevation for "Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging" or in English: National-Socialistic Movement.
@Gideon : It might be interesting to know that an extreme-right politician with religious-extremist political views (called trans people pedophiles in 2021 when debating a Self-ID law change in The Netherlands) used the "50 times increase" in an even more egregious way.
He did the "Cass thing" by saying (in questions to our minister of National Health, Sports and Wellbeing about the Cass report) "Is the minister aware and concerned that there appears to be a 5000% increase in children with gender dysphoria?" and left out the beginning number, or the timespan.
It is also deeply concerning that these politicians are so willing to confuse referrals with diagnosis...
We are dealing with a fully fascist government that has been attempting to overthrow democracy on certain key elements a couple of times by now, and it has failed multiple times, but the attacks on trans people are ongoing to this day.
2 much more recent attacks were trying to do "black sheep" politics on mental healthcare for children by arguing (in questions to the state secretary of National Health, Wellbeing and Sports) that trans children were using up all available capacity and that there should be a push to declare that mental healthcare should only be given to "the correct children and not those confused by a mental delusion instilled in their minds by radical gender ideology."
If you looked at data involving trans children compared to all children in mental healthcare, the amount was astonishingly low: a little more than 1% was on the waiting list after being referred to transgender healthcare.
And the rest? Being targeted by the same politicians who are more than happy to do a 226 million euro's funding cutback to children's mental healthcare systems in 2026. It was scheduled for 2025 but opposition parties managed to get that one scrapped.
Currently, they are crying about the "mistakes that are never allowed to happen ever again", in the foster-parent system after severe abuse of a child taken out of custody of the biological mother, with whom she might actually have been better off given the severe abuse she suffered under the hands of her foster parents of whom earlier signals had been completely ignored.
Another recent attack has been a different party being "concerned about the decreasing support and tolerance for LGBTQI+ people". This party, just like the party I talked about earlier both refused to sign what is called "The Rainbow Agreement", a statement with which you declare as a political party not to design legislation to attack sexual minorities with, or in general, discriminate against a group of people.
This party openly welcomed a former lawyer who in 2023 at 54 years of age openly attacked a 22-year old trans woman after she won a Miss Netherlands beauty pageant. Mind you, this pageant never concerned this former lawyer ever before. But now she was radicalized and decided to jump on the controverse-Intercity train towards fascism.
To be clear how radical she is: she has been convicted for group discrimination of muslim people. The remark leading to this continues to be labeled by her as "Incredibly nuanced".
She considers transphobia humor, calls herself a feminist but shares manosphere material on her Instagram profile. She would fit the MAGA-type of Republican very, VERY well.
The same party openly welcomed a party member from a different party who compared scrapping the self-ID law change with "protecting children from the pedophile organisation Martijn".
This organisation sounds more scary and problematic than it really is: it was an organisation that tried to argue for more humane debates around people with this preference, it didn't promote pedosexuality nor did people who were convicted were welcome, it just tried to remain in contact with a society that increasingly is out to lynch them or even at the mere rumour someone might be a pedophile decides to take matters in their own hands.
The first party I talked about tried to revoke patient-doctor confidentiality of trans children so they could look at their medical records: the person doing this is convinced doctors are overdiagnosing these children, and tried to insinuate that ever since this massive increase in referrals all these children were seen in time, without waiting lists and that we were already well aware of the complete image of this new demographic.
A member of the same party that made the 5000% increase remark was responsible for this in mid February 2024 and is called Rosanne Hertzberger. She is a former microbiologist having worked in the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, at just 500 meters distance of the VU Medical Centre that once pioneered with the treatment of trans children. Her call for research "into the long-term effects of puberty blockers" of course solely focused on trans children, not cis-gender children, because apparently they are somehow perfectly safe there.
Problem for her is that the research she called for WAS ALREADY RUNNING for 2 years in the VU Medical Centre in Amsterdam. A former microbiologist failing to be capable of finding out that this is the case, understandably concerned many pro-trans organisations and trans people themselves: all were deeply worried about her supposed integrety and cautious approach to this research. And given the typical truth-and-science-hating nature of extreme-right politicians, they were also concerned whether she actually was interested in the outcome.
She quit her position November 2024 "after concerns over unjust language towards minorities", this in relation to the poorly handled and selective response to riots in Amsterdam between Maccabi soccer hooligans and muslim people eventually retaliating due to police leaving the fighting Maccabi hooligans to their own devices but slammed down hard when muslim people eventually retaliated (my country has a serious bias problem involving protecting Israël at ALL cost).
Unfortunately journalists utterly failed to verbally knock her teeth out by asking about her own hypocrisy about targeting minorities.
The Dutch media unfortunately has been proven equally as useless as the US in strongly condemning extreme-right rhetoric, politicians and their policy.
Another party member of the same party 2 months after trying to revoke patient-doctor confidentiality of trans children called all trans people and even trans children serial rapists.
This party is called New Social Contract by the way, abbreviated to NSC, which QUICKLY drew the comparison in people that it had a very, VERY problematic sounding connotation with NSB, the only political party allowed during the Second World War and was an NSDAP-daughterparty of the party of Adolf Hitler.
NSB is the abbrevation for "Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging" or in English: National-Socialistic Movement.