NHS report find child transgender 'medicine' built on 'shaky foundations', rejects puberty blockers (Cass report)

The evidence for helping children to change gender including 'social transitioning' and hormone blockers is built on "shaky foundations", a major review into the practice by a leading field pediatrician in the United Kingdom has found.

The long-anticipated Cass report into how the tax-funded NHShas been published and calls for major change, saying hormone drugs should no longer be given to under-18s and that the basis of ‘treatments’ given by the NHS have been based on practices with little “developmental rigour and transparency”. Fundamentally, Dr Hilary Cass said, “When conducting the review, I found that in gender medicine those pillars are built on shaky foundations.”

The NHS — which has already ended the use of hormone blockers for children just last month — has responded to the paper, saying it will further “review the use of gender affirming hormones” and will instruct adult gender clinics to “implement a pause on offering first appointments to young people below their 18th birthday”.

In an article in the British Medical Journal accompanying the near-400-page report, Cass said in the recent past “gender care for children and young people had moved from a ‘watchful waiting’ approach to treatment with puberty blockers”.

During this time “the majority of clinical guidelines have not followed the international standards for guideline development” and the bodies influential in developing these practices ” lack developmental rigour and transparency,” the paediatrician reported...

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I posted this earlier today in a different thread:

Most Children Grow Out of Gender Confusion Over Time, Long-Term Dutch Study Suggests

While proponents of “gender-affirming” treatment for adolescents claim that the confusion surrounding gender isn’t just a phase that one can grow out of, a long-term, large-scale study from the Netherlands seems to suggest otherwise.

For their study, researchers at the University of Groningen looked at data collected from 2,772 individuals through a survey spanning 15 years. Beginning at age 11, the participants were periodically asked about how they felt about their own gender, until they reached their mid-twenties.

The survey contained a prompt, “I wish to be of the opposite sex.” The participants were asked to respond to that same statement every two to three years over the course of the 15-year study, and each time, they were given a multiple choice: “Not True,” “Somewhat or Sometimes True,” and “Very True or Often True.”

According to the findings, 11 percent of participants reported at least some degree of “non-contentedness” with their gender at some point during the study. But by the age of 25, the dissatisfaction rate had dropped to 4 percent.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/most-children-grow-out-of-gender-confusion-over-time-long-term-dutch-study-suggests-5622103

People who supported genital mutilation will not allow a study such as this to change their minds.

The logic is simple: if they admit they supported one of the worst forms of child abuse then they would be culpable.

To protect their psyche they must deny this report is true.

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