The Vindication of Britain's Feminists

The Cass Review into the treatment of gender-questioning children is devastating. The truth was always there to be seen: many chose not to see it.

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Dr Hilary Cass’s review into the treatment of gender-questioning children by NHS England has finally been published. It is the most comprehensive official report of its kind ever conducted and its conclusions are damning: the unquestioning adoption of gender-affirming care for vulnerable and sometimes confused children has been a disaster. It is difficult to estimate the scale of the damage done by a medical approach which privileged ideological conviction and fashionable absurdity over evidence-based medicine and intuitive good sense.

Here, courtesy of Lucy Bannerman in The Times, is a singl…