In light of the refusal of 6 out of 7 NHS adult gender clinics to take part in research designed by York University as part of the Cass review, worth recalling the 2019 address by Charing X GIC lead clinician James Barrett to the British Association of Gender Identity Specialists

“We’ve all let children down” youtu.be/6jyA7Mc7hi4

I think we now have a pretty good idea that these patients were mostly female, aged 17 to 25.

I hope some of the researchers studying girls who id as trans are looking at early menarche and painful menstruation because these come up *all the time* as reasons girls 'knew they were trans.'

‘The ethical challenges are great. Some young adults have told us that they wish they had known when they were younger that there are many more ways of being trans than following a binary medical transgender pathway’ bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Gender medicine for children and young people is built on shaky foundations. Here is how we strengthen services | The BMJ bmj.com/content/385/bm…

‘It was “unbelievably disappointing” that the research study she had hoped to conduct to look at the outcomes of 9,000 former Tavistock patients had been blocked by the adult gender clinics’ theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

‘Children are being used as a football’: Hilary Cass on her review of gender identity services theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Cass said that “online influencers” had played a key role in fuelling confusion among young people about their gender identity and what they needed to do to change it.
“Some of them give them very unbalanced information” theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Cass disclosed that six of the NHS’s seven specialist gender services in England for adults had “thwarted” an attempt to obtain and analyse the health outcomes of people who had been treated by Gids …This refusal to cooperate “was coordinated” theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

“Exceptionalism often lies at the heart of medical scandals when services go rogue and start to operate outside the normal parameters of clinical practice.” theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

‘The increase in gender clinic patients “has to some degree paralleled” the deterioration in child and adolescent mental health, it finds. Mental distress, the report says, can present through physical manifestations, such as eating disorders’ thetimes.co.uk/article/cass-r…

'Cass paints an alarming picture of an anxious and distressed generation of digitally savvy young women and girls, who not only are more exposed to online pornography and the wider problems of the world .... but also consume more social media '
thetimes.co.uk/article/cb8e1b…

Final Report – Cass Review cass.independent-review.uk/home/publicati…

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The puberty blocker scandal at Careggi hospital, Florence, Italy, is now a criminal investigation. The paediatric affirmation only approach has finished in Italy.

Kathleen Stock ive been reading these reports on the split between the sexes & I couldn't agree more, the tone is so often dismissive of young men. They are struggling in many areas & the tendency to split -applaud one side - denigrate the other is only going to
make things worse.