Britain’s National Health Service is re-evaluating all so-called “gender-affirming care” treatments following a damning new report which highlights that the gender reassignment system is built on weak and unreliable evidence.
Dr Hilary Cass, a British doctor who previously served as Dean of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, was appointed by NHS England in 2020 to lead an independent inquiry into the UK’s gender reassignment system and young people’s services.
Cath recently submitted her final reportthe paper, entitled ‘An Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People’, is not a flattering portrait of so-called ‘gender-affirming care’.
Kass previously hinted in his 2022 interim report that the smocked gender ideologues were more or less free-spirited.Specifically, the interim report is
I got it. It said the so-called Gender Identity Development Service “did not have some of the normal quality controls that are normally applied when new or innovative treatments are introduced.”
The interim report also suggested that the controversial and now-defunct Tavistock Gender Clinic was “not a safe or viable long-term option” for young people.
Mr Kass’ final 388-page report was published just weeks after England’s top health authority confirmed that puberty blockers would no longer be prescribed to minors at so-called gender identity clinics. , makes the same point, but goes further and recommends the following:
- Suspend the prescription of powerful hormones to minors.
- An understanding that children who undergo heterosexual medical intervention may later come to deeply regret it.
- Comprehensive assessment of prospective patient needs and screening for “neurodevelopmental conditions and mental health assessment, including autism spectrum disorders.”
- A reassessment of policy regarding cross-sex hormones and the use of “extreme caution” when considering the use of hormones in minors.
- Mandatory provision of infertility counseling and treatment to children before allowing them to seek a “medical path”.
- Ensuring that clinical services operate to the “highest standards of evidence”.
- Support services for detransitioners.and
- Additional reviews of current policies, services, and approaches.
As well as making these recommendations, Cass’s report also offers a number of astute observations about the gender change regime.
The report states: “Systematic reviews show no clear evidence that social transitions in childhood have positive or negative effects on mental health, and there is relatively little evidence of any effects in adolescence. weak,” he said.
While ‘social transition’ apparently has no noticeable impact on mental health, the report notes that children so groomed are much more likely to undergo gender reassignment medical intervention at a later stage. It was shown that
The report also noted that while puberty blockers “have their intended effect of suppressing puberty,” they impair bone density and have no appreciable impact on “gender dysphoria or body satisfaction.” did.
“There was insufficient or inconsistent evidence for the effects of puberty suppression on psychological or psychosocial health, cognitive development, cardiometabolic risk or fertility,” the report added.
Regarding cross-sex hormones, the Cass report found that a systematic review from the University of York found that “there is a lack of high-quality studies evaluating the outcomes of hormonal interventions for adolescents with gender dysphoria/nonconformity, with long-term follow-up.” It was found that there is “very little research”. -Up. ”
The university reportedly stressed that “no conclusions can be drawn regarding the effects on gender dysphoria, body satisfaction, psychosocial health, cognitive development, or fertility.”
The Cass report also found that there is no evidence to support the conclusion that cross-sex hormones reduce the increased risk of death in people suffering from gender dysphoria. This finding is in line with the conclusion reached in an explosive Finnish study published in February in the respected journal BMJ Mental Health, which found that gender reassignment medical interventions “have no effect on suicide risk. It turned out that there was no.
The Kass report highlighted the “weak” and unreliable nature of the evidence supporting “gender-affirming care” and said that clinicians “want to know which children and young people end up being permanently transgender.” It is impossible to judge with certainty.” Identity. ”
This is a very important point. This is because many of the children sterilized and transformed by the gender reassignment system would otherwise have been able to lead healthy lives and start families naturally.
Blaze News previously reported that Finland’s leading child psychiatrist Rittakertu Kartiala told the government that the majority of children will grow up with the delusion that their gender and gender do not match. It was reported that.
Children who would otherwise grow up to be beyond confused because they cannot properly consent to gender reassignment surgery, as a member of the World Association of Transgender Health Professionals was recently exposed as confessing behind closed doors. Amputations in children are even worse.
Kass’s report concludes: “For most young people, a health pathway is not the best way to manage gender-related distress. For young people who clinically need a health pathway, providing a health pathway alone is not the best way to manage gender-related distress.” That is not enough; we must also: Addressing broader mental health and/or psychosocial challenges. ”
Kass goes on to say in the preface that this is an area in which “the evidence is significantly weaker, yet research results are often exaggerated or misrepresented by people on all sides of the debate to support their own views.” “The reality is that there is not enough evidence on this issue.” Long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress. ”
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report British Chancellor Rishi Sunak said he welcomed the recommendations made in the report, pointing out that there had been a huge spike in gender dysphoria among children, particularly girls, in recent years.
“We just don’t know the long-term effects that medical and social transitions will have on children, so we have to be very careful,” Sunak said, adding that the Conservative government had already put restrictions on children’s adolescence under the law. suggested discontinuing routine use of the inhibitor. He is 16 years old.
Charity Sex Matters
Said In a statement Wednesday, it said: “Hilary Kass’s report destroys the entire basis of the current treatment model for gender-stressed children. Its publication leaves vulnerable children with no evidence for too long. “This is a shameful day for the UK NHS, which has given out harmful treatments without adequate care.” It is now clear to everyone that this was a fake drug from the beginning. ”
“This is the end of pediatric gender medicine as we know it,” said Helen Joyce of the nonprofit organization Sex Matters.
The Lesbian Project welcomes this report, Focus on it “We hope to see real change in the health service to completely eradicate the fanatical activities that have led to the scandalous abuse of vulnerable children and young people.”
Gender ideologues are not satisfied with how their cause has been effectively bulldozed in recent weeks and months.
Speaking ahead of the report’s release, Cal Houghton, an LGBT activist at Oxford Brookes Business School, said: written Propaganda from International Transgender Health argues that “the Cass Review itself can be understood as an example of cis supremacy in a cis-dominated health care system that lacks accountability for the trans community.”
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