Andrea Williams, Chief Executive of Christian Concern, responds to the long-awaited Cass Review into NHS treatment for youngsters and young individuals with gender dysphoria.
The Cass Review makes clear that children haven’t been told the reality by clinicians and other adults.
It will not be true that chances are you’ll be born within the flawed body. It will not be true you could change gender. It will not be true that puberty-blockers will help children. It is high time we stopped telling children these items.
The pressure of an instructional culture captivated by transgender ideology has prevented honest, independent, scientific research. Fundamental to science is the should be driven by evidence-based scientific research. The NHS and other clinicians must return to evidence-based medicine, not ideological treatment of vulnerable children.
It is now clear that the skilled ban on conversion therapy is harming children. This ban needs to finish. We welcome the UKCP (The UK Council for Psychotherapy) withdrawing its signature from the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) on Conversion Therapy. Other organisations must follow. Clinicians can’t be pressured into adopting an affirmative approach through the specter of accusations of ‘conversion practices’.
It is time for the federal government to drop entirely all plans to introduce latest laws to outlaw so-called ‘conversion practices’.
The government must act to dam all loopholes to accessing puberty blockers and introduce a whole ban on their use on this country.
Once again, the damaging effects of online pornography are laid bare. More must be done to limit access to such material to children particularly.
I’m pleased to see that the NHS will review all trans treatment following this review. Children have been badly served by an ideological system which believed that affirming children in a false gender identity and prescribing harmful drugs was helpful.
This must stop. Children should be told the reality. We are created female and male and we cannot change this. Most children will grow out of gender confusion as they undergo puberty. Gender confused children need care and support and to be told the reality which can set them free.
