The Observer view on the Cass review
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Guardian (UK)
...children were catastrophically failed by the medical profession. Clinicians and managers must be held to account for the travesty in which adult beliefs were allowed to drive healthcare for children. ‘They deserve very much better,” the distinguished paediatrician Hilary Cass concludes in the final report of her independent review of NHS gender identity services for children and young people. The report details how a vulnerable group has been “exceptionalised” by the NHS and denied the evidence-based healthcare all patients have the right to expect. Just how badly wrong things went at the gender identity development service (Gids) is evidenced in the fact that Cass felt she had to explicitly state that, while some people argue that clinical care for children should be based on a “social justice” model, “the NHS works in an evidence-based way”.