Tasked with making recommendations to NHS England, British pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass presented the most extensive review of the use of puberty blockers and surgeries to date.
Dr. Cass, chair of the Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People, was commissioned by NHS to help it improve gender identity care with a final report and recommendations. That report is the so-called “Cass Review” which recommends, for example, “extreme caution” when giving hormone treatment to minors under age 18.
Breakthrough Ideas writer Laurie Higgins, who is familiar with the report, tells AFN that Dr. Cass reviewed 63 published studies about the effects of hormones on children.
"And she found that all except for one study are all leading to the same conclusion: that we don't know enough about the puberty blockers, the cross-sex hormones, certainly the surgeries,” Higgins says.
The studies that have been done so far are weak or poor, or biased, Higgins, citing the Cass Review, says.
The pediatrician’s report concludes there are “conflicting views” about clinical care, and it acknowledges the “strengths and weaknesses” of the evidence she looked at. The doctor’s reasoned conclusions have proven to be too much for Leftists who view transgenderism as an ideology rather than psychological treatment.
Watching the attacks against Dr. Cass, Higgins points out the attacks are predictably aimed at the physician herself, not on her work or her conclusions.
“That's the first thing Leftists do,” she says. “This is how they silence people is to call names – marginalize.”
Higgins predicts the abuse of children will eventually stop due to lawsuits but children continue to be harmed, she says, in the name of transgender ideology.
