... Cass says “the most important thing” she is in discussions about, including with NHS England, is around public information: “We need a much, much broader, proactive communication strategy and public health approach so that everybody knows the facts because otherwise the disinformation still fills the space.
“We need a trusted, NHS-blessed source of information for parents and young people, and we need broader education for primary and secondary care teams to know what the facts are, what they should be doing, their responsibilities. Because if everyone’s not on the same page of understanding, what’s happening is that children end up in specialist centres without even giving them the best information. Then the only information they get is off the internet, which says the only thing that’s going to help them is hormones, and that clearly may not be the case.”
She praises the “vast majority of politicians” on their handling of the review as, “for the most part, it was not about politicising it” – and was relieved that both major political parties, Labour and the Conservatives, publicly supported the review, which Cass argues has proven “hugely important in partly dialling down the rhetoric”.
The Lib Dems are yet to make a formal statement on the Cass Review. “No,” she says, with a somewhat defeated look, “they haven’t yet. We are hoping to get to meet them because, as luck would have it, we were due to speak to them the very afternoon that Rishi Sunak called the election, so we’re hoping to remedy that as soon as possible. It is important that we have dialogue with them.”
The proactive dialogue, Cass says, should be around “how do we protect everybody’s rights and safety?”. It means she has little patience for questions like ‘does a woman have a penis?’. “What does the journalist hope to achieve when they ask that question?” she asks. “It’s a really unhelpful, reductive way of dealing with things, and that’s not addressing the issues... It just typifies what goes on in this debate of people wanting to make it polarised.”
Cass was “pleased” that Health Secretary Wes Streeting “was decisive” on extending the puberty blockers ban but recognises that, with the time limit on the temporary curbs, “he had to do something”. She doesn’t know what his final decision will be.
Responding to the argument that the ban is driving the use of puberty blockers underground, she says: “You can never completely eliminate harmful substances, whether it’s ecstasy or whatever, but I still think that there is a responsibility on government to try and reduce the extent to which young people are exposed to medicines or drugs that may be harmful. And the real key, the real prize here, is getting faster access to services, even local services.”
She believes one of the best things to come out of her review is the ability to have open conversations about gender and “answer the questions that maybe people have been afraid to ask in other settings”. ...
Please note! these are only a few paragraphs from a quite long article. Including interesting comments about the BMA - see https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/baroness-hilary-cass-gender-review-interview-brexit-terf-trans-care
(I wonder if she thinks FWRighters are "keyboard warriors"? 
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