A new report on Canada's permissiveness compared to Europe highlights the need for drastic changes to how we deal with gender dysphoric youth

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Four years in the making, the final “Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People,” written by esteemed pediatrician Hilary Cass, was released back in April. It was commissioned by NHS England in the United Kingdom, following well-publicized whistle-blowing over allegedly reckless medical experimentation on gender-confused children at the National Health Service’s prestigious Tavistock gender clinic (which was closed following the Cass Review’s inculpatory interim report in 2022).

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The interim report alleged inadequate assessment, rushed medicalization, failures to safeguard children, indifference to the special vulnerability of autistic and same-sex attracted patients, substandard research, undue influence of political actors and intimidation of whistleblower staff.

Now, in the same plain language, the final report has brought the hammer down hard on the presumed gold standard of treatment for gender-confused children and teenagers: “gender affirmation.” In practice, gender affirmation translates into rapid access to puberty blockers, then to cross-sex hormones and surgeries, with little or no traditional therapeutic exploration of other mental-health issues.

Amongst the report’s key findings were: “poor quality” of studies adduced by ideologues to support the need for gender affirmation; “weak evidence” on the benefits of puberty blockers; and the inability to........

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