Focus on puberty blockers in gender care disproportionate, Cass says

The review, commissioned by NHS England and published in April, called for better psychological support, noting young people struggling with their gender had higher rates of mental-health problems and neurodiversity such as autism and ADHD or childhood trauma.

On Wednesday, Dr Cass told BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour programme: “They [puberty blockers] have been a disproportionate amount of the discussion, because actually the evidence doesn’t show benefit for the majority of young people who go on them.

“And in some senses, they have been oversold to young people as being the thing that is going to make them feel dramatically better.”

Puberty blockers were prescribed to children by London’s Tavistock Clinic, which was the only NHS gender service for under-18s but has now been closed down.