Leading consultant paediatrician says unproven treatments and ‘toxicity’ of trans debate damaging outcomes
Dr Hilary Cass said care was made difficult to provide by the way in which opposing sides had ‘pointed to research to justify a position, regardless of the quality of the studies’.Dr Hilary Cass said care was made difficult to provide by the way in which opposing sides had ‘pointed to research to justify a position, regardless of the quality of the studies’.
The report recommends that all such young people should be screened to detect neurodevelopmental conditions, such as autism spectrum disorder, and there should be an assessment of their mental health, because many who seek help with their gender identity also have ADHD, anxiety or depression, for example.
In her report, she outlines how the Tavistock trust began prescribing puberty blockers much more widely in 2014, despite a lack of evidence that they helped. Sallie Baxendale, a professor of clinical neuropsychology at University College London, said that Cass’s report “has laid bare the worrying lack of evidence to support the treatments that were prescribed by NHS clinicians to children with gender distress for over a decade.“Exceptionalism often lies at the heart of medical scandals when services go rogue and start to operate outside the normal parameters of clinical practice.
Cass disclosed in the report that six of the NHS’s seven specialist gender services in England for adults had “thwarted” an attempt by York University, at her request, to obtain and analyse the health outcomes of people who had been treated by Gids in order to improve future care.
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