What are the key findings of the NHS gender identity review?

Report by Dr Hilary Cass finds young people being let down by lack of research and evidence on medical interventions

• Thousands of children ‘let down by NHS’
• Review has major implications for mental health services

A review into the NHS’s gender identity services has found that children and young people have been let down by a lack of research and evidence on medical interventions in a debate that has become exceptionally toxic.

Dr Hilary Cass said her report was not about defining “what it means to be trans” or “undermining the validity of trans identities”, but about “how best to help the growing number of children and young people who are looking for support from the NHS in relation to their gender identity”. Here are the review’s key findings.