Scottish health boards pause prescription of puberty blockers for young people

Popular Harry Potter author JK Rowling goes on a Twitter or X tirade after pediatrician and consultant Hilary Cass conducted a comprehensive and lengthy review of international research into gender medicine for children for NHS England. She concludes that a lack of research and evidence on transgender medical interventions such as puberty blockers and body-altering surgeries is failing children. “The pillars of gender medicine are ‘built on shaky foundations,'” Dr. Cass has said, and evidence was found to be severely lacking on the impacts of puberty blockers and hormone treatments on children. Dr. Cass further stated that healthcare for people questioning their gender “needs to be improved across the board.” Still, there is a marked and essential distinction “between having a trans identity and medically transitioning.”