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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

'Cass Review' author: More 'caution' advised for gender-affirming care for youth

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

News, On Point, Daily, Npr, Talk Show

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A groundbreaking review out of the UK finds “poor” or “low quality” evidence for using puberty blockers and hormones to help gender-distressed young people. Dr. Hilary Cass, who led that review, gives her first U.S. broadcast interview to On Point.

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On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.

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Governance, promises to help the bottom line and the planet at the same time.

0:27.0

Is it too good to be true?

0:28.7

Stick around until the end of this podcast for a preview of'm Megna Chakrabardi. In April, a long-awaited

0:39.9

report from Britain's National Health Service concluded that for most

0:43.7

gender distressed young people quote a medical pathway will not be the best way to

0:49.1

manage their distress and quote that is the result of an almost four year long 388 page

0:56.5

systematic review of all available studies on the use of puberty blockers and

1:00.8

cross sex hormones in adolescence.

1:03.5

The report is called The Cass Review,

1:05.7

an independent review of gender identity services

1:08.2

for children and young people.

1:10.7

It was commissioned by Britain's National Health Service, and it found that the evidence base

1:15.1

for medicalized treatment of adolescent gender distress was, quote, inadequate and poor.

1:21.6

This comes as the number of young people seeking clinical help for gender distress continues to grow.

1:27.0

And unlike a decade or two ago, most of these people are adolescent natal girls.

1:33.4

Many often suffer from concurrent mental health issues or autism.

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