The NHS will review all transgender treatment, as the landmark Cass report says that the evidence for allowing children and young people to change gender is built on “shaky foundations”. The Telegraph has the story.
Dr. Hilary Cass, a paediatrician, on Wednesday publishes her long-awaited review into the support and treatment offered to children who believe they are transgender, and cautions that extreme care should be taken before anyone under the age of 25 transitions.
It also calls for an end to the prescribing of any powerful hormone drugs to under 18s; warns children who change gender may regret it; finds that many have experienced trauma, neglect and abuse; and says there is no “good evidence” on the long-term outcomes of the treatments that have been given to children.
The review warns of pressures on families, with parents feeling forced to allow their children to transition so they are not labelled transphobic amid a “toxic” debate.
Dr. Cass declares that “gender medicine for children and young people is built on shaky foundations”.
She says: “The reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress.”
In response, the NHS is to review all transgender treatment it provides, including to adults, and treatment for any new patients aged 16 and 17 seeking to change gender at adult clinics will immediately be paused.
Rishi Sunak has welcomed the recommendations, highlighting the sharp rise in recent years in children, particularly adolescent girls, questioning their gender.
Backing Dr. Cass’s call for all cases to be treated with “great care and compassion”, he said: “We simply do not know the long-term impacts of medical treatment or social transitioning on them, and we should therefore exercise extreme caution.”
The 388-page report took four years to produce, amid mounting concern that children are being allowed to change gender in schools and by doctors without question.
Dr. Cass, the former President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, cautions against hasty decisions while children’s brains are developing, calling for “unhurried, holistic, therapeutic support” for those aged between 17 and 25.
She says doctors are “unable to determine with any certainty which children and young people will go on to have an enduring trans identity”.
Dr. Cass adds that “life-changing” decisions must be properly considered in adulthood, noting that brain maturation continues into the mid-20s.
She cautions these people are still at a “vulnerable stage in their journey” and that each of the regional centres recommended in her interim report, which will provide mental health and other support to children who want to change gender, should care for people aged up to 25.
The consultant paediatrician says it is not possible to “know the ‘sweet spot’ when someone becomes settled in their sense of self” but that decisions should not be rushed before an individual becomes a mature adult.
The younger children were, the more likely they were to change their mind, the report finds.
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Let’s hope this means that the sane people are starting to reassert themselves. I feel incredible sadness for the vulnerable children for whom this comes too late.
Let’s hope this also terrifies the so-called medical practitioners who’ve been complicit in this absolute travesty. Legal sanctions will be necessary if I am ever to regain our faith in these charlatans.
It is not just a matter of sanity.
How is it that democratic processes are bypassed and what effectively are new laws implemented on the say-so of anonymous political activists without any democratic mandate?
How is it that in Western democracies this is happening?
Is it a matter of researching how to push an ideology so that it is implemented to the detriment of the majority?
That is what is happening and has been happening over so many Wokist issues.
There is no such thing as a transgender child. And the best ‘cure’ for any child who does believe they’re in the wrong body is to keep them well away from any devices so as to avoid social media and check what they’re being indoctrinated with at school, because in my opinion, those are the two avenues that are going to potentially poison your kid’s mind and destroy lives. It’s been demonstrated that the vast amount of kids who declare they’re ‘trans’ actually grow out of it if left alone to go through puberty unhindered by any outside interference. And many of these kids and young folks have been shown to be on the autism spectrum, so they are especially susceptible to peer pressure and influence from others online.
Many adolescents are in fact gay, or just confused about their sexuality ( puberty being a tough and confusing time for many anyway ), but are being lead to believe that this is a sign they’re actually ‘trans’. There have always been girls that are more tomboyish and boys that are more effeminate, but this does not mean that alarm bells need to start ringing as a parent, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this and it shouldn’t be treat like some sort of intervention is necessary or something’s wrong with your kid. We are just highly evolved animals, at the end of the day, and like other mammals there are only male and female. It’s just that our pet dogs and cats don’t get to dress up in our clothes when we’re out of the house and behave like closet transvestites.
This is, of course, very welcome and heartening.
However, the people who push trans ideology are not likely to back off because of this or any report. For them it’s ideological, so they will continue to push their ideology.
Pushing back against this mad ideology then will come done to a matter of political will and simply saying enough is enough.
The question really is whether this report will provide any impetus for a firm push back. Will the government grow the spine to start standing up to extreme trans ideology?
I cannot improve on what the excellent ‘Billboard Chris’ says here, which is, as we all know, at the heart of the matter. But how to excise the primary tumour, because it would seem this cancer has long since metastasized;
”Wokeness is communism on steroids.
That’s it.
It is the belief that society is systemically oppressive — white supremacist, cis-heteronormative, patriarchal, and capitalistic — and we need to destroy existing power structures, to be replaced with neo-communism.
It strives for delusional, equal-outcome utopia. But first, the nasty, negative, low-accomplishment, violent social-justice warriors must destroy everything that made the West successful. That includes eliminating Judeo-Christian values.
It is anti-freedom, and anti-human nature.
To put it more succinctly, woke means loser.”
Only 5 years too late (possibly as much as 10) for many vulnerable young people.
Now amend the Equality Act to make it absolutely clear that it refers to peoples biological SEX not some made up gender or for their convenience.
Most gay people I’ve ever met are perfectly confident, well-adjusted people happy in their own skin. As are anyone I’ve met who has more masculine or feminine traits compared to their gender. So why the new need for “trans”?
This is why trans activists speak for the tiniest of minorities, and it is only the deliberate encouragement of of a trans mindset that leads to its adoption (among children and teenagers at least).The idea would never occur to these young minds that their happiness depends on chemical and surgical interference with their sexual development unless this new and unnatural idea is proactively introduced.
#GlinnerWasRight is trending on Twitter.
I’m so glad common sense is starting to prevail.
I have been reading about this ‘trans’ issue from afar. I find it deplorable that such ideas are being pushed onto young children – that is what they are children.
This is all being paid for by the beleaguered tax payer and in my opinion it should no be so.
In times gone past for men to be considered for a sex change they had to live and act completely as if they were a woman before any treatment medical/surgical was considered. What happened to this?
Here in Thailand any such treatment has to be paid for by the individual which can take many years to accrue the money. There are many ladyboys who have the breast implants and take female hormones who DON’T want total excision of their genitalia. Perhaps these purveyors of this ideaology should come here and see for themselves what happens.
A further note is that whatever sex is written on the birth certificate remains with that person on their ID card and passport. Just because they have had a complete sex change doesn’t mean to say they can change their sex. Males will still have XY chromosomes and females XX. This cannot be changed.