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Woman's Hour

The Cass Review, Back to Black, Female Psychopath

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The long awaited Cass Review, published on Wednesday by paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, calls for gender services for young people to match the standards of other NHS care. Emma Barnett is joined by the former BBC journalist Hannah Barnes, now Associate Editor at The New Statesman and author of Time To Think - the inside story of the collapse of the Tavistock's gender service in children.

Alison Owen is the powerhouse British film producer behind the new biopic of Amy Winehouse, Back to Black, released this Friday. In it, the actor Marisa Abela recreates many of Amy’s iconic performances, recordings and her most famous paparazzi moments. Alison joins Emma to discuss why she wanted to make the film, which comes out almost 13 years after Amy’s death.

Childlessness not out of choice is a difficult subject to discuss. Those who have experienced it are usually left to grieve and heal alone. Those who have friends and family members wrestling with infertility don’t even know how to talk about it. A new book with 22 personal stories about involuntary childlessness hopes to offer a support group for almost-parents. Emma Barnett talks to the author of ‘No One Talks About This Stuff’ Kat Brown and one of the contributors Rageshri Dhairyawan about their experiences.

Do you remember our segment on female psychopaths? We’ll hear from one woman who has been officially diagnosed with the condition. M.E Thomas speaks to Emma about living with psychopathy.

Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

Transcript

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0:00.0

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Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

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Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

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And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:35.0

Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Woman's A from BBC Radio 4.

0:40.0

Good morning and welcome to today's program.

0:42.8

You will have seen and heard leading the news bulletins

0:45.4

that an NHS commissioned review four years in the making

0:48.6

has finally landed and it's damning.

0:51.4

The subject, children and gender identity. The verdict, in a nutshell,

0:56.1

doctors have been getting it wrong. According to the report's author, the pediatrician Dr. Hillary

1:01.1

cast, there is no good evidence supporting the use of

1:04.3

puberty blockers and hormone treatments in children who believe they are

1:08.4

transgender. And the treatment of girls has been particularly singled out. Here's Dr. Kast talking on the today

1:15.3

program earlier.

1:16.3

There has been a significant change in the population of young people over the last 10 to 15 years. So about 15 years ago the service was

1:25.8

seeing perhaps 50, predominantly birth registered boys in childhood, and over the last 10 years or so it's switched to over 3,000 young people

1:37.8

and it's mainly birth registered girls presenting in early teens and as you say often with quite complex

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