The British Medical Association (BMA) has reversed its decision to call for a pause in implementing the recommendations of the Cass Review, the New Statesman can reveal. It follows intense criticism of the doctors’ union after this publication exposed its discussions regarding the rejection of the findings of Dr Hilary Cass’s independent review into gender identity services for children and young people.
Informed by seven new systematic evidence reviews, and more than a thousand conversations with trans young people, clinicians and others, Cass concluded in April that gender medicine was built on “shaky foundations” and “an area of remarkably weak evidence”. The reality, she wrote in her report, is that there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of [hormonal] interventions to manage gender-related distress”.
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