In 2020, the NHS commissioned Dr Hilary Cass, a leading paediatrician, to review its gender services for children and young people. Today, four years on, her eagerly anticipated findings have been published.
At its core, the Cass Review severely criticises the NHS’s approach to ‘gender confused’ children, and reaffirms the principle of evidence-based practice in medicine. It warns that the medical pathway is unsuitable for most young people with gender issues. And it states that clinicians should take extreme care before allowing anyone under the age of 25 to take pharmaceutical steps to ‘transition’ to look like the opposite sex.
