ArticleInternational journal of transgender health2025
The Cass Review: Cis-supremacy in the UK's approach to healthcare for trans children.
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- Mental health impacts of anti-trans stigma on transgender people in Australia: a mixed-methods study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Pubertal Suppression for Transgender Youth: A Right to an Open Future Approach in Support of a Youth-Empowered Legal Framework.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2025Article
- Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people.The Medical journal of Australia · 2025Article
- Rebuttal to: 'Gender affirming healthcare' is not what the family physician needs to know.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2025Article
- Transphobia in the United Kingdom: a public health crisis.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- Rising transphobia and disparities in drug-related harm experienced by transgender and gender-diverse people.Harm reduction journal · 2025Review
- Implications of the Cass Review for health policy governing gender medicine for Australian minors.Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists · 2025Review
- Algorithmic emergence? Epistemic in/justice in AI-directed transformations of healthcare.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Review
- Supporting and understanding non-binary & gender diverse youth: a physician's view.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Article
- Child rights in trans healthcare - a call to action.International journal of transgender health · 2024Article
- Providers' Beliefs and Values: Understanding Their Approach to Gender-Affirming Care.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
Background: Since 2016 trans people in the UK, and particularly trans children, have experienced a sustained and escalating campaign to roll back trans freedoms, rights and access to healthcare. A series of legislative, politicized and media-driven campaigns have resulted in the year-by-year worsening of access to affirmative healthcare for trans children in the UK. Aim: This study examines publications from the NHS-commissioned 'Cass Review' into children's gender services, seeking to better understand what is happening in trans children's healthcare in the UK. Methods: Inductive and deductive reflexive thematic analysis was applied to a collection of Cass Review publications related to trans children's healthcare published between January 2020 and May 2023. Results: Four concerns are presented and explored: (1) prejudice; (2) cisnormative bias; (3) pathologization; and (4) inconsistent standards of evidence. Each of these concerns impacts the Cass Review's approach to trans children's healthcare, with negative repercussions for trans children's healthcare rights and well-being. Discussion: The Cass Review itself can be understood as an example of cis-supremacy, within a cis-dominant healthcare system lacking accountability to trans communities. These findings draw attention to systemic barriers to effective healthcare policy, with relevance for trans healthcare across and beyond the UK.
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