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Sex Matters, a gender advocacy group, said it was “unbelievable” that the doctors’ union had backed “baseless claims” about methodological flaws in the Cass review. It urged the Health Secretary to “stand firm” and press ahead with the recommendations.

The association says the work will be completed by the end of the year before discussions with its council in January next year.

Until now, the BMA had refused to say whether Cass’s motion at the secret meeting had been passed.

On Wednesday, the union revealed that the proposed proposal called on the union to “publicly criticize the Cass review” and to “request and work with other relevant organizations and stakeholders to oppose the implementation of the recommendations made.” it’s a Cass test”.

The announcement also saw the organization “condemn the growing political transfer that marginalizes transgender people and discriminates against them by restricting their access to healthcare”.

The organization said it was holding discussions after doctors and academics in several countries, including the UK, expressed concern about the weaknesses in the methods used in the assessment and the problems caused by the implementation of some recommendations.

‘It’s time for us to really listen’

It said the “task and finish” group would be set up by Professor Philip Banfield, chairman of the BMA council, who would also appoint the group’s chairman.

Professor Banfield said: “It is very important that we take the time and care to get this work right. This is a very special area of ​​health care for children and young adults with complex needs, and as Doctors want to make sure they get the most appropriate care and support they need.

“The task force and the end will make recommendations to improve the health system that, for a long time, has failed for transgender patients. It will work with patients to ensure that the diagnosis includes the old medical statement of ‘no decision about me but me’. It’s time to really listen to this important, important, and unfortunately often victimized group of people and, together, create a system where they finally given the attention they deserve.”

Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at Sexuality, said: “It is unbelievable that the GPs’ union voted to support a motion that makes baseless claims about the shortcomings of the Cass test system. This extensive work spanned four years and is far and away the strongest evidence base on the treatment of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria.

“It is a testament to how far the ‘gender identity’ divide has progressed in medicine that this process has not been cancelled. The Secretary of State for Health needs to stand firm and proceed to complete the Cass test in detail.

“Many academics and doctors who appreciated Dr Cass’s solid work should tell the leadership of the BMA that it does not speak for them. Too many children with sexual abuse have been harmed by doctors who put their own feelings before the health and well-being of their patients.

An NHS spokesman said: “Dr Cass has spent four years gathering evidence for a comprehensive report of its kind, and his expertise and advice have been invaluable in supporting the NHS to develop a service that better and safer for children and teenagers.

“NHS England has full confidence in her report and we are committed to taking its recommendations forward. We will soon be announcing our plan to implement the report’s recommendations and findings, including putting in place do more research, so that children and young people can get the best care they can get.”