Barbara Kay: Groundswell against gender-affirming care becoming too loud to ignore

Four years in the making, the final “Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People,” written by esteemed pediatrician Hilary Cass, was released back in April. It was commissioned by NHS England in the United Kingdom, following well-publicized whistle-blowing over allegedly reckless medical experimentation on gender-confused children at the National Health Service’s prestigious Tavistock gender clinic (which was closed following the Cass Review’s inculpatory interim report in 2022).

The interim report alleged inadequate assessment, rushed medicalization, failures to safeguard children, indifference to the special vulnerability of autistic and same-sex attracted patients, substandard research, undue influence of political actors and intimidation of whistleblower staff.

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