Claim of Suicide Surge in Youths on U.K. Wait List for Gender Care Undermined by ‘Cass Review’
The landmark report on pediatric gender care also undermines suggestions by a British legal group that the clinic all but eliminated pediatric gender-transition treatment referrals in 2021 and that this drove a wave of suicides on the waiting list.
A British legal advocacy group has claimed there was a “huge increase” in suicide deaths among minors on the waiting list for the U.K.’s recently-shuttered pediatric gender-care clinic. This surge, the group argues, is the result of what it characterized as the clinic’s harsh restrictions, beginning in 2021, on adolescents’ access to gender-transition treatment.
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