NHS adult gender services in England will undergo a major review after the doctor behind a long-awaited report on children's services said teenagers are 'falling off a cliff edge' in their care when they reach 17.
READ MORE:JK Rowling has said she won't forgive Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson after slamming celebrities who 'cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women's hard-won rights'.
It comes after a review, written by leading paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, found that teenagers in Britain have been allowed to change their gender based on 'remarkably weak evidence'. Following the publication of her report many people who have expressed misgivings over allowing children to transition claimed they have been vindicated, including comedy writer Graham Linehan who lost his career, wife, friends and reputation over his views.
READ MORE NHS's entire gender treatment model for children is demolished in bombshell report: Teens suffered irreversible changes based on 'remarkably weak evidence', 'toxic' debate taints key issues - and schools are ALSO blasted by eminent doctor Advertisement In a series of tweets after following the report's publication, Rowling wrote: 'Over the last four years, Hilary Cass has conducted the most robust review of the medical evidence for transitioning children...
'And if I sound angry, it's because I'm bloody angry. I read Cass this morning and my anger's been mounting all day. Kids have been irreversibly harmed, and thousands are complicit, not just medics, but the celebrity mouthpieces, unquestioning media and cynical corporations. The Harry Potter author responded on X, formerly known as Twitter, to the publication of the Cass review on gender treatment
Dr Cass warned that her review had been hampered by how polarised the debate on trans care for children has become. She said medical professionals had been left ' afraid to openly discuss their views'. The review said family doctors had 'expressed concern about being pressurised to prescribe hormones after these have been initiated by private providers'.
Radcliffe, who played the titular character in Rowling's hit Harry Potter series, has spoken out in the past to say adults are 'condescending' for expressing misgivings over gender transitioning in children. Radcliffe said: 'I think a lot of the time it's just because people don't know a young trans person so there's just this theoretical idea about this in their head.'
In response at the time, Radcliffe hit out at the author, saying: 'To all the people who now feel that their experience of the books has been tarnished or diminished, I am deeply sorry for the pain these comments have caused you'. He added: 'The reason I felt very, very much as though I needed to say something when I did was because, particularly since finishing Potter, I've met so many queer and trans kids and young people who had a huge amount of identification with Potter on that.
'I want my trans followers to know that I and so many other people around the world see you, respect you and love you for who you are.'
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