The Cass Review shows it’s a disaster for professionals to confuse opinion with expertise
by Charles Moore, Telegraph:
From trans to climate change, experts are too often allowing their own prejudices to taint their judgment.
The first words of Dr Hilary Cass in her review published this week are: “This review is not about defining what it means to be trans.” Her wise refusal to engage in that heated debate gives the report its power.
As disclosed in its title, the report is about “gender identity services for children and young people”. “It is,” Dr Cass says, “about what the healthcare approach should be.” It unearths what has gone dreadfully wrong in a very sensitive part of the National Health Service.
Dr Cass’s discoveries and recommendations are important in their own right. The trans debate – moral, medical, social, scientific, political – will now be based on much better information. Hundreds of articles could be written about her findings alone, and probably will be. But today I would like to use the Cass Review to make a wider point.
It is about the terrible things that happen when people cease to behave professionally.
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