What Is The Cass Report?—Here's Everything You Need To Know
Dr Hilary Cass, a former President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, was employed by the NHS (England's National Health Service) to conduct a review of the published evidence on the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in children, teens, and young adults with gender dysphoria. She finally published the 388-page report, and the findings are disturbing.
The controversy surrounding gender-affirming care for minors new levels of scrutiny following a string of scandals at GIDS—the UK’s only specialist clinic designed to help children questioning their gender. It was later revealed that the clinic's entire practice used one heavily critiqued study called The Dutch Protocol to develop its entire methodology. They used this controversial study to justify treating over 2,000 young people with hormone blockers and cross-sex hormones. This eventually led to the recent Cass Report, which we'll get to in just a moment.