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The Cass Review: 2024 anti-trans publication

The Cass Review is a British report released in 2024. Its purpose was to strengthen existing gatekeeping of trans health services by severely limiting these option for minors. Lead author Hilary Cass produced a political document similar to the anti-trans “science” produced by anti-trans extremist Paul McHugh to justify shutting down the Johns Hopkins gender clinic in 1979.

Members

The Cass Review included a group of unnamed participants that comprised the Gender Dysphoria Clinical Advisory Group, also likely known as Cass Review Assurance Group. As their names become known, they will be added below.

Hilary Cass

  • Chair; Past President of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Richard Byng

  • Professor in Primary Care Research, University of Plymouth; Peninsula Medical School (Faculty of Health: Medicine, Dentistry and Human Sciences)

Leeds Endocrine team

  • Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology and Gender Dysphoria, Leeds Children’s Hospital; and Nomination of British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes

Jeremy Glyde [unconfirmed]

  • Senior Public Health Adviser to Specialised Commissioning, NHS England
  • [listed elsewhere as Head of Specialised Commissioning / Deputy Director CYP Gender Dysphoria Programme, NHS England]

Gary Butler [unconfirmed]

  • Consultant in Paediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology – Gender Identity Development Service; University College London Hospital & UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

Polly Carmichael [unconfirmed]

  • Clinical Psychologist, and Clinical Director of Gender Identity Development Service; Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

Richard Stephens [unconfirmed]

  • Patient and public voice representative

[unconfirmed]

  • Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust

Jess Turnbull [unconfirmed]

  • Consultant Community Paediatrician; Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust / Nomination of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Bobbie Farsides (Also Cass Review Assurance Group)

  • Professor of Clinical and Biomedical Ethics, University of Sussex

Peter Fonagy

  • Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College of London; Chief Executive of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families

Kenny Gibson

  • National Head of Safeguarding, NHS England

Carl Henegan

  • General Practitioner; and Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and Director, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine; Oxford University

[unconfirmed]

  • Patient and public voice representative

Leeds Endocrine team

  • Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology – Gender Identity Development Service; Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Hilary Strachan?

  • Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Central Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust / Nomination of Royal College of Psychiatrists

[unconfirmed]

  • Patient and public voice representative

[unconfirmed]

  • Clinical Policy Fellow, NHS England (secretariat)

[unconfirmed]

  • Senior Professional Adviser. NHS Wales

References

Reed, Erin (May 13, 2024). Endocrine Society And American Academy Of Pediatrics Respond To Cass, Reject Bans. Erin in the Morning https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/endocrine-society-and-american-academy

Scheimer, Dorey; Chakrabarti, Meghna; Skoog, Tim (May 8, 2024). ‘Cass Review’ author: More ‘caution’ advised for gender-affirming care for youth. On Point https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/05/08/hilary-cass-review-caution-nhs-gender-affirming-care-youth

Reed, Erin (April 18, 2024). Opinion: England’s Anti-Trans Cass Review Is Politics Disguised As Science. Erin in the Morning https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/opinion-englands-anti-trans-cass

Reed, Erin (April 19, 2024). Dr. Cass Backpedals From Review: HRT, Blockers Should Be Made Available. Erin in the Morning https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dr-cass-backpedals-from-review-hrt

Reed, Erin (May 9, 2024). Cass Says Transition Should Be Measured By “Employment,” Not Satisfaction. Erin in the Morning https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/cass-says-transition-should-be-measured

Resources

Cass Review (https://cass.independent-review.uk/)

  • Final Report (2024)
  • cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report
  • Interim Report (2022)
  • cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/interim-report

Twitter/X (twitter.com)

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)