>A new multi-disciplinary team led by the chief medical officer (CMO) – comprising paediatric, pharmacy and scientific expertise – will be convened to examine clinical recommendations of the Cass Review, and consider how they may apply to NHS Scotland, the Scottish public health minister, Jenni Minto, has announced.
>Giving an update on the Scottish Government’s response to the review, which was chaired by Dr Hilary Cass, the minister also restated the Scottish Government’s commitment to invest £9m to support the improvement of NHS gender identity healthcare in Scotland.
This is going to take a while. Whatever your opinion on the content, it’s a 400 page review for a different health system, with specific recommendations based on how that system operates, handles data, reviews cases, and not all of those relate here. It’s right that what it says, what Cass says, and the evidence used is looked at for how and if it applies here properly.
Hopefully the Scottish Government are taking more on board than an internationally-condemned report that threw away the vast majority of studies because they didn’t fit with it’s predetermined conclusion.
Good.
They will be above the misinformation being spread about the review.
We need a public inquiry as to why kids were experimented on by the NHS, this is one of the biggest scandals in British history and everyone is sweeping it under the rug like it was nothing, heads should be rolling about the place
Trans person here who knew at 12, came out at 13, jumped through all the gender clinic gatekeeping hoops and hurdles to get on puberty blockers at 14, started estrogen HRT at 16, had lower gender affirming surgery at 18 and recently had facial feminisation surgery at 25 and has no regret about any of it, the suspension of prescribing blockers and Hormones to trans youth is only going to cause massive unnecessary distress and misery, my heart hurts for trans kids in this country having been in their position growing up knowing how piss poor trans healthcare services in this country already were, trans kids deserve to live free from medical inequality and discrimination and most importantly deserve to grow up to be happy trans adults.
The Cass Review Report does not conclude that puberty suppressing hormones are an unsafe treatment. The report supports a research study being implemented to allow pre-pubertal children to have a pathway to accessing this treatment in a timely way and with suitable follow up and data collection, to provide the highest quality of evidence for the ongoing use of puberty suppressing hormones as a treatment for gender dysphoria. In the data the Cass Review examined, the most common age that trans young people were being initially prescribed puberty suppressing hormones was 15. Dr. Cass’s view is that this is too late to have the intended benefits of supressing the effects of puberty and was caused by the previous NHS policy of requiring a trans young person to be on puberty suppressing hormones for a year before accessing gender affirming hormones. The Cass Review Report recommends that a different approach is needed, with puberty suppressing hormones and gender affirming hormones being available to young people at different ages and developmental stages alongside a wider range of gender affirming healthcare based on individual need.”
Can we guarantee this expert panel are free of policies interference?
If they are selected by politicians then this can get in the bin.
Why do we need experts when we could just rely on strong feelings and shouting instead?
How would this work:
You don’t say a single fucking word about the subject unless you’ve already memorised the GnRh pathway and understand it well enough to predict the consequences of fucking with it?
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>A new multi-disciplinary team led by the chief medical officer (CMO) – comprising paediatric, pharmacy and scientific expertise – will be convened to examine clinical recommendations of the Cass Review, and consider how they may apply to NHS Scotland, the Scottish public health minister, Jenni Minto, has announced.
>Giving an update on the Scottish Government’s response to the review, which was chaired by Dr Hilary Cass, the minister also restated the Scottish Government’s commitment to invest £9m to support the improvement of NHS gender identity healthcare in Scotland.
This is going to take a while. Whatever your opinion on the content, it’s a 400 page review for a different health system, with specific recommendations based on how that system operates, handles data, reviews cases, and not all of those relate here. It’s right that what it says, what Cass says, and the evidence used is looked at for how and if it applies here properly.
[Here’s a sum-up of criticisms of the Cass Review from healthcare professionals, investigative journalists, academics and human rights groups](https://ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/whats-wrong-with-the-cass-review-a-round-up-of-commentary-and-evidence/)
[study of 90,000 trans people that shows that transitioning improves their lives](https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/transgender-survey-transition-hrt-surgery-gender-affirming-rcna137563)
Hopefully the Scottish Government are taking more on board than an internationally-condemned report that threw away the vast majority of studies because they didn’t fit with it’s predetermined conclusion.
Good.
They will be above the misinformation being spread about the review.
We need a public inquiry as to why kids were experimented on by the NHS, this is one of the biggest scandals in British history and everyone is sweeping it under the rug like it was nothing, heads should be rolling about the place
Trans person here who knew at 12, came out at 13, jumped through all the gender clinic gatekeeping hoops and hurdles to get on puberty blockers at 14, started estrogen HRT at 16, had lower gender affirming surgery at 18 and recently had facial feminisation surgery at 25 and has no regret about any of it, the suspension of prescribing blockers and Hormones to trans youth is only going to cause massive unnecessary distress and misery, my heart hurts for trans kids in this country having been in their position growing up knowing how piss poor trans healthcare services in this country already were, trans kids deserve to live free from medical inequality and discrimination and most importantly deserve to grow up to be happy trans adults.
The Cass Review Report does not conclude that puberty suppressing hormones are an unsafe treatment. The report supports a research study being implemented to allow pre-pubertal children to have a pathway to accessing this treatment in a timely way and with suitable follow up and data collection, to provide the highest quality of evidence for the ongoing use of puberty suppressing hormones as a treatment for gender dysphoria. In the data the Cass Review examined, the most common age that trans young people were being initially prescribed puberty suppressing hormones was 15. Dr. Cass’s view is that this is too late to have the intended benefits of supressing the effects of puberty and was caused by the previous NHS policy of requiring a trans young person to be on puberty suppressing hormones for a year before accessing gender affirming hormones. The Cass Review Report recommends that a different approach is needed, with puberty suppressing hormones and gender affirming hormones being available to young people at different ages and developmental stages alongside a wider range of gender affirming healthcare based on individual need.”
Can we guarantee this expert panel are free of policies interference?
If they are selected by politicians then this can get in the bin.
Preferably without [outright ruling out including any of the people affected from the board](https://web.archive.org/web/20210420111940/https://cass.independent-review.uk/about-the-review/governance/) and [without appointing a head of research who lobbied the government in support of conversion therapy](https://twitter.com/ValoisDuBins/status/1782663263609926006) this time?
Why do we need experts when we could just rely on strong feelings and shouting instead?
How would this work:
You don’t say a single fucking word about the subject unless you’ve already memorised the GnRh pathway and understand it well enough to predict the consequences of fucking with it?
How’s about that?
Ya know… medicine. How it normally works.
Anything but giving a minority healthcare