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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Gregory, Nicola Davis and Ian Sample

Gender medicine ‘built on shaky foundations’, Cass review finds

A person standing on asphalt road with gender symbols of male, female, bigender and transgender
Researchers studied 23 guidelines published in different countries between 1998 and 2022, finding most lacked an evidence-based approach. Photograph: Ronnie Chua/Getty Images/iStockphoto

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”.

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