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Cass findings show need for extreme caution in children’s gender care, says PM

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The findings of a major review that concluded that medical treatment in children’s gender care has been based on weak evidence has shone a spotlight on the need to “exercise extreme caution” in this area, the Prime Minister has said.

The Cass Review’s final report, published on Wednesday, said children have been let down by a lack of research and evidence on the use of puberty blockers and hormones, in a debate that it said has become exceptionally toxic.

The recommendations in the lengthy and long-awaited report have prompted NHS England, which had already stopped puberty blockers being given to under-16s, to announce a review into the use of hormones.

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