LGBTQ+ experts criticise Cass Review in open letter to Health Secretary Wes Streeting

More than 100 organisations and activists have signed an open letter condemning the Department of Health’s continued “degrading” of trans healthcare by implementing the Cass Review.

The letter, published on Tuesday (15 October), expresses a “deep lack of confidence” in the review, which made recommendations on how to improve trans youth care in England and Wales, as well as “concerns” over government support for it.

“Trustworthy government review of the evidence base for a particularly controversial policy, especially in the medical field, do not look like the Cass Review,” the letter, headed by the charity TransActual, reads.

“They have a clear mandate and problem to solve which are raised by those directly affected, not by newspaper columnists or ideologues. They do not exclude members of the patient cohort and those

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