The smear campaign against the Cass Review
by Lauren Smith, spiked:
Trans activists are still refusing to reckon with the harms of so-called gender-affirming care.
The Cass Review has delivered a damning indictment of the NHS’s treatment of gender-confused children – and of the ideology that has led so many youngsters to medically transition, causing them irreversible harm in the process. Unsurprisingly, ever since it was released last week, trans activists have been desperately scrambling to try to discredit its findings.
Using cool-headed research and hard data, Dr Hilary Cass’s final report on gender-identity services in England makes it clear that puberty blockers often don’t help children suffering from gender dysphoria. She argues that young people should not be rushed into receiving cross-sex hormones or so-called sex-reassignment surgeries. She even writes that ‘social transitioning’ alone – that is, adopting a name, pronouns and dress of the opposite sex – can be harmful for kids.
So how have trans activists tried to refute the report’s findings? Largely by misrepresenting or misunderstanding what Cass and her team have actually written. The trans lobby immediately denounced the review, claiming that it ignored any research that shows medical transitioning can be helpful to children. These arguments have since been repeated across social media and used as neat ‘gotchas’. But they seem to miss the point of the Cass Review entirely.
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