England's National Health Service Issues Ambitious Plan to Implement Cass Review

Even as the British Medical Association has called for a pause on such implementation, NHS England has published a detailed plan to overhaul care of gender-distressed youth over the next two years.

The cover of NHS’s report outlining its plans to establish a new system, including research endeavors and routine data collection, to care for gender-distressed youths.

England’s National Health Service on Wednesday published a detailed outline of its ambitious plan to phase in over the next two years the recommendations of the landmark Cass Review of the care of youth who are distressed about their gender.

Most notably, the NHS has indicated that it hopes to get up and running by early 2025 a clinical trial of puberty blockers to treat gender-related distress in minors. And after the team of pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass, the author of the Cass Review, was rebuffed by NHS adult gender clinics in their effort to obtain data regarding former patients of the UK’s pediatric gender clinic, the NHS has pledged to get its hands on this information and finally conduct a thorough analysis of the adult outcomes of such former pediatric patients.

Overall, the plan is for the NHS to establish seve…