‘THIS is as insulting and ignorant an article as I have ever regretfully read. I am ashamed of The National for publishing this crap.”
That was the robustly expressed view of one reader four years ago, when I wrote about female detransitioners – young women who had attempted to become men via a process of medical transition, but later deeply regretted doing so.
With extraordinary bravery, she became the complainant in Bell v Tavistock, a case challenging the legality of prescribing puberty-blocking drugs to under-16s in England and Wales.It can no longer be claimed that cases like Keira’s – prescribed puberty blockers at 16, testosterone injections the following year, a double mastectomy at 20, then detransition from 21 – are undocumented, that the stories of their experience are mere “rumours”.
Working out how best to provide such care is a significant challenge, not least because of what Cass describes as the “surrounding noise and increasingly toxic, ideological and polarised public debate” about child transition. The findings of the Cass review were unsurprising, given its interim reports led to the halting of prescription of puberty blockers to children in England outwith clinical trials. NHS Scotland has yet to follow suit, with the Scottish Government last week saying it would “take the time to consider the findings” of the final report. Let’s hope that doesn’t take too long.
An approach that mere weeks ago was tantamount to conversion therapy is now the thoughtful care that all right-thinking people should support.
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