#cass report

[elierlick]

The brain does not magically mature at 25. Actual neuroscientists note some 8-year-olds even have a greater "maturation index" than 25-year-olds. The myth misunderstands basic neuroscience but is still used for anti-trans policymaking like the Cass Report. https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html

[mywitchcultblr]

This is what happen when people take the 'your brain doesn't mature till 25' pop-sci too literally and just ran with it, also transphobia

[the-woke-left]

"They shouldn't socially transition until after 25"

So trans people magically aren't adults at 18 like cis people!?!?!????

[sarcasm] Wow yeah that sounds good and like something a normal government would say. Hope this isn't a dangerous precedent that will be used to repeal rights from other minority groups

[mxactivist]

UK petition: An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services

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We believe that trans healthcare should be based on unbiased research that is peer reviewed. We think that the Cass review's findings have led to restrictive practices that are being directly felt by transgender children. We feel that an independent evaluation is necessary to ensure children aren’t being unduly harmed. We think that only through a transparent process can we guarantee fair access and treatment for trans children as well as restore faith in the current NHS services.

Deadline: 12 June 2025

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Who can sign?

Anyone living in the UK (regardless of citizenship)

Any UK citizen (regardless of country of residence)

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[ex-foster]

We have a lot of voices on the gender critical side who have done extraordinarily well with bringing attention to how young people with autism and same sex attraction are disproportionately at risk of falling victim to trans medicalization. Yet we rarely hear about how foster kids are disproportionately more likely to identify as trans.

According to the Cass Report, foster kids made up 25 % of gender clinic referrals yet foster kids only make up 0.67% of the general population.

This means foster kids are 37 times more likely to identify as trans than other children.

Foster kids often experience severe trauma, including neglect, abuse, and instability. Trauma can lead to dissociation, identity confusion, and a desire to escape one’s past, which might make some more vulnerable to seeing gender transition as a way to start over.

[floral-ashes]

My favourite part of the Cass Report is where she goes: “Florence Ashley and others have shown that gatekeeping doesn’t work and should be abandoned. We disagree, not based on any evidence but because it’s incompatible with the way we’ve already decided we wanted to do things.”

[notagayman]

Yeah so fuck the cass report

[probablyasocialecologist]

Cass Review full of 'stigma' and should not guide trans youth care, say experts

A newly published study has argued the Cass Review into trans youth care, published in April 2024, is full of 'stigma' and 'misinformation'.

A team of paediatric experts and medical professionals expressed significant concerns that the independent review into health care for trans youngsters in the UK did not provide “credible, evidence-based guidance,” and was having a negative effect.

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Studying the effects of the report, more than a year on from its publication, researchers from 15 different paediatric care institutions in Australia said they were “gravely concerned” about the well-being of trans and gender-diverse people.

Published on the Medical Journal of Australia website on Monday (6 October) and titled “Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people”, the new research claimed that not only had there been a failure to sufficiently justify the recommendations in the Cass Review, but its authors had not disclosed their “positionality” on transgender care.

“Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator,” the researchers said.

“A patient’s goal of achieving optimal quality of life as a trans person requires respect. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, does not give credible evidence‐based guidance. We are gravely concerned about its impact on the well-being of trans and gender‐diverse people.”

Studying the report’s analysis of core aspects of gender-affirming medical treatment (GAMT), the researchers went on to criticise a “subjective” choice of studies, several of which, they claimed, were “out of date, while the recommendation to restrict trans healthcare to combat the number of detransitions, ignored scientific papers which had shown rates of regret to be low, particularly when compared with other surgeries and life decisions.

6 October 2025