The Cass Review is an independent report commissioned by NHS England in 2020 to examine gender identity services for children and young people in England. The review was led by Dr. Hilary Cass, a retired consultant paediatrician with no insight into transgender lives.

We have gathered some articles and comments that make sense of the report and the political context.

Cass Review contains ‘serious flaws’, according to Yale Law School

Working group of trans experts – including clinicians – finds Cass Report ‘deeply flawed’

Biological and psychosocial evidence in the Cass Review: a critical commentary

Over 130 Irish academics sign open letter criticising Cass Review on transgender healthcare

Dr. Hillary Cass, author of the Cass Review gave an interview with NPR in which she says that transition effectiveness should be measured by “employment” and “getting out of the house.”

Dr Hilary Cass says a trans conversion therapy ban could ‘frighten off’ therapists

Dr. Cass Backpedals From Review: HRT, Blockers Should Be Made Available

Anti-trans media figures have latched onto a flawed report out of Britain in order to push for broad restrictions and, in at least one instance, suggest that violence against the parents of trans children is justified.

The Cass Review, WPATH Files, and the Perpetual Debate over Gender-Affirming Care

Do no harm? The trouble with Cass’ therapy recommendations

England’s Anti-Trans Cass Review Is Politics Disguised As Science

The Cass review into NHS England’s gender identity services for children and young people lacks rigour but fits the government’s agenda

The Cass Review: Cis-supremacy in the UK’s approach to healthcare for trans children

“We believe the Cass Report is a deliberate part of a political project aiming to reduce the availability of trans healthcare, possibly eventually in its entirety. “

Dr Hilary Cass ignored whistleblowers warnings about increase in waiting list deaths.

“Through its cisheteronormative agenda, the Cass Review is enacting the prejudice that trans people suffer in the United Kingdom”

British Medical Association Calls Cass Review “Unsubstantiated,” Passes Resolution Against Implementation

No trans regrets: What the Cass report gets wrong

Hilary Cass has been given peerage from the cross-bench honours list

Scientific American: The U.K.’s Cass Review Badly Fails Trans Children

Colleagues Allege Cass Recommended Book Comparing Transition To The Holocaust

The Cass Report: The Good, The Bad, The Critical

Dr Hilary Cass denies claim that she recommended ‘gender-critical’ book to colleagues

The Strange Report Fueling the War on Trans Kids
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The Cass Review Into Gender Identity Services for Children 

With puberty blockers now banned in much of the UK, those hoping for gender treatment say they have been forced into difficult decisions

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