https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/6c6a3f10-ab7f-4a54-8559-1071e7493fa6?shareToken=db0b8951a46a2638d52f9f9f18eb4360
In her first public intervention since the publication of Dr Hilary Cass’s report, the business secretary calls for a review into public bodies and their policies on transgender issues.
She also launches an extraordinary broadside against politicians of every stripe, the police, the media, the NHS and universities. She says the “cowardice of those in positions of influence” was “worse than the ravings of the militants”.
Badenoch, who is also minister for women and equalities, claimed the recommendations could not be fully delivered until the government addressed the “underlying problem” of “ideological capture” in British institutions. Cass called for more NHS research into young people seeking help over their gender, different approaches to care depending on a child’s age and a more cautious attitude to social transitioning.
She adds: “At the heart of many of the review’s recommendations is a failure of institutions to self-regulate. Ministers have intervened time and again, but it is time for institutional leaders to step up and recover impartiality. It is also time for an in-depth review of decision-making across the public sector. How is it that senior leaders ignore the law and allow groups like Stonewall [an LGBT rights charity] to make up what it should be?”