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U, Cambridge, England. MPhil Global Risk and Resilience at CSER. Interested in long covid, disability justice, global inequality and climate adaptation.
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This entire 'debate' is so maddening. We have been promised that a groundswell of rushed, dissatisfied detransitioners was about to emerge for nearly a decade.

Not only have they never materialized, but academic research continues to show small numbers, long assessments and miniscule regret rates.
Numerous accusations from critical media outlets claimed the clinic was a “transing factory” that ignored “holistic” approaches to care and was recklessly prescribing puberty suppressant hormones, known as puberty blockers, to children. One article from The Times, published in 2022, claimed that at least 1,000 families were planning mass legal action against the Tavistock gender clinic for rushing youngsters into taking puberty blockers. However, a freedom of information (FOI) request to the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, shared by Yorkshire Bylines, revealed that, between 2012 and 2022, only eight complaints over healthcare provisions had been lodged.
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Australian scholars Dr Bridgette-Desjardins and Taryn Hepburn explore international impacts of Cass in "The Gender Agenda's Agenda". They say Cass draws on "transphobic pop-cultural discourses", showing "a direct line between public discourse and restrictions on trans rights" doi.org/10.1111/soin...
The Cass Review and its impact is significant for two reasons. First, it demonstrates that transphobic pop-cultural discourses have real material effects. Transphobic discourses became increasingly publicly popular, which led to increased criticism of current care models for trans youth. Heightened public scrutiny led to the Review's commissioning and the subsequent banning of puberty blockers. There is a direct line between public discourse and restrictions on trans rights. Second, the Review's impacts are not limited to the United Kingdom. Medical practitioners in the United States are debating how the Review's findings should or should not be implemented (Knopf 2024). In Australia, 17 psychiatrists sent an open letter to The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists advocating that the College “acknowledge the recommendations of the Cass Review as relevant to Australian paediatric gender services” and “call for health ministers to establish an independent body to investigate Australian paediatric gender services and implement relevant recommendations from the Cass Review” (Spencer et al. 2024). Though the College rejected their members' call, it is clear that the sentiments leading to the formation of the Cass Review and the increased skepticism regarding gender-affirming healthcare for youth that has resulted from the Review's reports are not isolated.
February 13, 2026 at 1:25 PM