Hannah Barnes has praised the Cass Report, which concluded young people were being set on paths of irreversible change without substantial medical evidence to support their treatment.
Parents, campaigners and former patients of the NHS 's transgender services for children have hailed a new report that concluded children questioning their gender were being set on irreversible treatment paths without medical evidence.
Leading paediatrician Dr Cass concluded there was a 'lack of high-quality research' on the effects of giving puberty blockers to transgender children, adding that the tenets of gender care were built on 'shaky foundations'. Keira Bell, one of the most high-profile detransitioners in the UK, who took the Tavistock clinic to court over the treatment she was given in transitioning in the first place
'For me, it tells us what we've known for very many years and really I'm left with the question of why it has taken so long... to really tackle this. We've known this is a very vulnerable population of young people for many years. Joyce advocates strongly against what she labelled in a February statement the 'pernicious influence of gender-identity ideology'.
Dr Cass found that a medical pathway would not be the best way to manage questions about gender 'for most young people' without also addressing other concerns such as mental health or neurodivergent conditions such as autism. 'Polarisation and stifling of debate do nothing to help the young people caught in the middle of a stormy social discourse, and in the long run will also hamper the research that is essential to finding the best way of supporting them to thrive.'
The clinic had been set up providing psychotherapeutic services to those questioning their gender identity but had, the report said, transitioned to prescribing a greater number of hormonal drugs as part of that treatment. The report was also commissioned because of the greater number of people seeking gender-affirming care on the NHS.
Asked about the Cass report on LBC, the PM said: 'The Cass report rightly shines a spotlight that we need to exercise extreme caution on these issues.'I think it is broadly in agreement with the direction of travel of the government.
'And not just funnelled down an irreversible pathway where they may find that they reach adulthood and then, a bit like Keira Bell, wonder how on earth they were ever allowed to take those steps.' 'I think they should be implemented now, as swiftly as possible, and we would like to work with the Government on doing that.'But Robbie de Santos, director of campaigns and human rights at LGBTQ+ rights organisation Stonewall, had a mixed response.
'But without due care, training or further capacity in the system, others could lead to new barriers that prevent children and young people from accessing the care they need and deserve.' At nearly 400 pages, the review examined the challenges facing NHS England's gender services for children and young people and made more than 30 recommendations.Toxic debate In her foreword to the review, Dr Cass warned 'the toxicity of the debate is exceptional'.
The 388-page Cass Review was published today after four years of speaking to specialists and reviewing the NHS's services for transgender children Dr Cass said 'the importance of what happens in school cannot be over-estimated', in a veiled reference to recent non-statutory guidance. Private clinics The review found that young people had been driven to private providers after sitting on the NHS waiting list.
Dr Cass recommended a 'follow-through service' for 17 to 25-year-olds to protect teenagers 'falling off a cliff edge' in care when they hit 17 It cited a US survey which showed Gen Z adults were the first generation to respond negatively to the statement 'there are only two genders'.Dr Cass's foreword also referenced those who identified as non-binary – people who do not identify as exclusively male or female – describing it as 'the fastest growing group identifying under the trans umbrella'.
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