Analysis finds most research underpinning clinical guidelines, hormone treatments and puberty blockers to be low quality
Review of gender services has major implications for mental health services
The head of the world’s largest review into children’s care has said that gender medicine is “built on shaky foundations”.
Dr Hilary Cass, the paediatrician commissioned to conduct a review of the services provided by the NHS to children and young people questioning their gender identity, said that while doctors tended to be cautious in implementing new findings in emerging areas of medicine, “quite the reverse happened in the field of gender care for children”.
