America should follow England’s lead on transgender care for kids
Its approach is neither as harsh as in red states nor as lax as in blue states
Calm discussions of transgender medicine are rare. “There are few other areas of health care where professionals are so afraid to openly discuss their views,” argues Hilary Cass, a British doctor. On April 9th she published a 388-page report, commissioned by England’s National Health Service, assessing the evidence for and against treatments for children who identify as transgender. Its conclusions will reverberate on both sides of the Atlantic, where standards of care differ wildly.
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This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “The cautious approach to transgender care”
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