Hello, today's episode of Newscast is one of those episodes where we focus on one subject because

it's a biggie and you just need that much time to get into all the different aspects of it.

And the subject we're going to focus on today is the huge big report that's been prepared by

the paediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass into how children and young people in England and Wales

who were struggling with their gender identity were treated by the NHS. And Dr. Hillary,

basically the short version of what she's found is that they were let down for multiple reasons.

And she found that some of the medical professionals who were dealing

with these vulnerable young people sort of didn't follow the classic medical rulebook that they

used treatments like purity blockers and sex hormones, where there wasn't really a lot of evidence

that those medications actually worked and that in some cases

young people were being treated for their gender questioning but they weren't asked whether other

things were going on and they weren't checked for things like autism or depression or bullying or sexual abuse. And this is a really,

really complicated subject area. And I think this moment, this report from Dr. Hilary Cass is a real,

I don't want to use a cliche that journalists use all the time, but I'm going to use one.

It's a bit of a watershed moment. And so therefore, I think it's right that we spend this whole episode with a friend of the podcast,

Hupim, and with Dr. Cass herself, just talking about what all of this means. So that's what we're

going to do on this newscast. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC.

Hundreds of bald men scrapping over a single broken cone.

He's not a leader. He is a human weather vane.

Two cheeks of the same backside.

No politicians are listening to what's happening.

We essentially need a bigger bazooka.

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