Dr. Hillary Cass is the former head of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health in the UK. She recently completed a four year-long review of the treatment of pediatric gender care which concluded the evidence for gender affirming care was weak. While her report (know as the Cass Revew) was immediately influential in the UK it has been largely ignored in the US. Today the NY Times published an interview with Dr. Cass about her report and why she believes it hasn’t led to any second thoughts in America. Simply put, she thinks it comes down to political pressure.
I’ve reached out to major medical groups in the United States about your findings. The American Academy of Pediatrics declined to comment on your report, citing its own research review that is underway. It said that its guidance, which it reaffirmed last year, was “grounded in evidence and science.”
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