Erin Reed is falsely claiming that Hilary Cass “backpedaled” and said in a new interview that gender-distressed kids *should* get puberty blockers. Instead, she reiterated that she supported a clinical trial in which kids would get them earlier than the typical age of 15.
The interview stated: “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 toaccessing 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.”
The interview stated: “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 toaccessing 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.”
Erin Reed’s headline is just plain wrong, as the interview with Cass that Reed refers to makes clear. Cass did not backpedal. Cass reiterated that she supports a clinical trial of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. She didn’t say she supports the NHS prescribing them: thekitetrust.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
Erin Reed’s false claim that Hilary Cass actually does support kids getting puberty blocker prescriptions comes after Cass called out influencers (which includes Reed) for falsely claiming that the Cass Review “disregarded” a large collection of studies.
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