Please could you invite Hilary Cass?

Dame Hilary was on Women's Hour last week and it is clear that she really on top of all the complex issues associated with gender dysphoria and transgender identities.

Please do invite her! I agree that allowing her to respond to a list of questions is likely to be a better format than an open discussion.

Yes please!

Yes please.

I also support inviting Cass. There are a lot of issues left to be clarified and a lot of misinformation going around.

The users of MN are likely to be the best informed demographic anywhere, and a talk between us and Cass could be exceptionally useful.

Please do invite her.

Yes, I'd like to ask about the planned research/study, and ethics of prescribing GnRH medications to children.

Yes please!

I support this. My question is about informed consent.

Second the motion!!

Yes please, it would be very interesting

Yes to this

I would also very much like to see Dame Cass on MN. I'm very concerned about the upcoming study which she said on WH wouldn't put limits on how many children will be part of the experimentation and some clarity would be great.

It would be great - but I suspect it would be wiser/she will be advised not to use MN as a forum for interview, in order to remain as a neutral voice in the space.

Yes please. Very relevant to a lot of the threads here.

This would be so beneficial for gaining clarity over speculation and confusion.
So yes please to this MNHQ!
Thanks for your proactivity OP.

Totally support this. I've a specific question about the Tavistock. How many of the children identified not as the opposite sex, but as an animal etc. A long time ago I read about this but it's not mentioned much now. It was my understanding the Tavistock tried to hide the fact the children so identifying were ignored or it was played down. I'm interested because in my nephews school a female child is identifying as a cat.

This would be a wonderful Q&A. I'd like to see Dame Cass - and the wider MN community - protected from a TRA pile on though.

I would love her to be invited.

Perhaps a list of questions posted in advance for her to address in a blog-like manner would be better than an interactive discussion, given how debilitating, wounding and polarised online discussions in this area can become

Mumsnet could put a list of questions to her, as they've done before.

Yes please that would be absolutely brilliant (trying to be calm and professional rather than total fangirl here)

Yes, please invite Dame Cass!

Prof. Emily Simonoff is the Chief Investigator for the upcoming study. Perhaps she would also be a helpful invitee, either for this or another session that is about the study and the protocol (afaict, the protocol isn't published yet).

The study will measure a range of potential treatment benefits and harms (for example whether puberty suppressing hormones impact in a meaningful way on levels of anxiety or depression, on body image, or brain development) using a range of validated tools, questionnaires and user feedback. Key measures included in the study, and the way data are collected, will aim to bridge gaps in existing research and will also be shaped by engagement with a range of stakeholders, including children and young people referred into NHS gender services and their families or carers.
Professor Emily Simonoff has been confirmed as Chief Investigator for the study. Emily is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, where she is also currently Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Director of the King’s Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People. She has extensive research experience and is also academic lead for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Clinical Academic Group at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. The research will be co-sponsored by King’s College London and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/gender-dysphoria-clinical-programme/implementing-advice-from-the-cass-review/cyp-gender-dysphoria-research-oversight-board/

I would like to see this. Cass Report is really important, I was able to reference it recently when seeking support for my autistic daughter.

I would be very interested in this.

I'm concerned about the proposed study on puberty blockers and how the children can give informed consent to such treatment. I'm also wondering how the information from Tavistock whistleblowers - that gay and autistic children were heavily over represented in their child patients - factors in to patient screening for the upcoming study.

I'd find it really interesting. But I wonder how the contribution could be structured to make this a good place for her to communicate the nuance and detail of her report?
Perhaps a list of questions posted in advance for her to address in a blog-like manner would be better than an interactive discussion, given how debilitating, wounding and polarised online discussions in this area can become