Final Report Cass Review now published

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Dr Hilary Cass has submitted her final report and recommendations to NHS England in her role as Chair of the Independent Review of gender identity services for children and young people.

Download from https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/

Bumping. Will digest tomorrow.

Thanks!

I've not read the report yet, but here is a detailed summary and breakdown as a primer

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1777834145470693643.html

It is equal parts horrifying, saddening and a validation of all of Mumsnet FWR's thoughts and fears on the matter.

Those poor kids.

As an extra kick in the teeth, Labour support full implementation of the review, and are calling on the Tories to do the same, despite Labour being right in the middle of this desperate mess, pushing it more than any other.

Interesting that the terms 'birth registered females' and 'birth registered males' are used mostly throughout the report instead of assigned male/female at birth. This is much clearer language.

The earlier thread about the Cass report which has all the front pages in the media tomorrow and 200 posts of discussion. The launch has been tracked there for several days.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/5044674-cass-review-out-on-wednesday

I posted this on the other thread but I’ll repeat it here. The most depressing thing about the initial reports on the Report is that they’re all things we’ve been discussing here for years:

Poor evidence
High rates of autism needing looking for
Poor mental health co-morbidities
Detransitioner regret

And so on, and so on. It’s 388 pages, but that’s a condensed version of multitudes of threads saying all this for years.

Don’t think of it as a kick in the teeth. It should be a huge relief that Labour are supporting the review whole heartedly and not undermining it, ignoring it or otherwise indicating that they will be swayed into returning to the old model of gender care. They will likely be in power soon and it would be a tragedy for children if Labour played politics with it instead of being grown ups, acknowledging the expertise and doing right by those children.

I agree. This shouldn’t be about ‘winning’ but should be about what is best for people’s mental and physical health.

Has Kier commented yet? I want to see his take, before believing Labour, particularly as Annalise Dodds is digging in

It speaks sense. As these pages have, for years.

But she said this care was made even more difficult to provide by the polarised public debate, and the way in which opposing sides had “pointed to research to justify a position, regardless of the quality of the studies”.
“There are few other areas of healthcare where professionals are so afraid to openly discuss their views, where people are vilified on social media, and where name-calling echoes the worst bullying behaviour. This must stop.

If we're going to reflect on this report honestly and objectively, we also need to own that this branch of Mumsnet has played a part in that polarisation of public debate.

Please expand….

I think our part has been talking about this while repeatedly being told to shut up.

In fairness, the fact there's even a debate at all is in part thanks to Mumsnet.

This is probably the biggest website to even allow these kinds of discussions.

Oh no. No no no. It is because MN refused to yield to activists' demands and threats that we even have this discussion. Without which, there would be no Cass Review.

No. No rewriting of history to show MNers and FWR as the bad guys. Absolutely not.

If we're going to reflect on this report honestly and objectively, we also need to own that this branch of Mumsnet has played a part in that polarisation of public debate.

The TRAs didn't want a nonpolarised debate, they wanted no debate at all. Without MN we'd be like NZ or Canada now.

Agree that without Mumsnet there really would have been no debate. I lurked for a while on FWR and saw reasonable questions being asked and the arguments from the trans side not standing up to them. I don't think MN has been polarising, more a space for fair discussion.

It's the top news item on bbc today programme.

Cass on at 7:30 exclusive interview

Some articles from the Times on the report which maybe of interest

The Times view on the NHS gender identity scandal: Prescription for Disaster

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4d38a355-b6c6-41a0-96dd-bbf1c2c611fa?shareToken=31f8a065623f2fd5e7fc209f6ffea2ad

NHS review rejects puberty blockers for gender transition in children

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/5f04e9ac-ead3-41e9-b199-07a18460f7bd?shareToken=adba279533f5c98c5316fe22b3aad2d6

Nine key findings from the Cass review into gender transition

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cb8e1bb3-0526-4431-81cb-ff0c48fabd43?shareToken=e6e1e5c2258f001e657952962e6ca6bb

Sajid Javid: NHS let gender ideology replace children’s best interest

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f84bc183-0f0a-4b28-b365-9fb6fb3fbf69?shareToken=2a408354d03adba4a0b401934f7ab2d8

Telegraph

^LEAD STORY

NHS to review all trans treatment
Evidence for letting children change gender built on shaky foundations, says Cass report^

digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1669/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/1669/pub/1669/page/2/article/NaN

Under-25s’ trans care must be slower

Recommendations from key report also include early help for pupils who wish to socially transition

digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1669/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/1669/pub/1669/page/25/article/NaN

When I was briefed on the NHS’s Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) for the first time, I knew this was not just another policy area but a child protection issue and huge medical scandal in the making.

Sajid javid

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Mail

NHS's gender treatment model for children is demolished in bombshell report: Teens suffered irreversible changes based on 'remarkably weak evidence'

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13290077/NHS-gender-treatment-children-based-remarkably-weak-evidence-landmark-report-finds.html

Everything you need to know about the sweeping 400-page Cass report, including why it was set-up four years ago and what has happened since

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13288717/Everything-need-know-sweeping-400-page-Cass-report-including-set-four-years-ago-happened-since.html

More research from the department of the bleeding obvious. It's bizarre that it took this to make it clear, but well done to Dr Cass for doing so.

So glad it sounds like Labour are on board too and agree we here should not be accepting responsibility for the toxicity of the debate ... it's like an abusive partner saying it takes two to argue when what they mean is you won't get any abuse if you just shut up and behave exactly as I want. There's nothing toxic about pointing out a system that is causing serious harm to children and young people.

I'm sure Starmer can see the writing on the wall, and will be only too glad to have the Cass report as an excuse to resist extreme transactivism.

Pleased to see this is top story on BBC news website, especially after their recent handling of other news stories.