Medical expert urges Irish Govt to heed Cass Report findings

A leading clinician has called on the Irish Government to adopt the Cass Report recommendations for the care of gender-confused children.

Writing in The Journal, Dr Paul Moran described the report as “the most important event in the development of gender healthcare globally”, and spelt out the implications of its key findings for Ireland.

As early as 2019, Dr Moran – a leading doctor at Ireland’s National Gender Service – raised clinical concerns with the Health Service Executive over its use of Tavistock services for children with gender dysphoria.

Ditch WPATH

Dr Moran, who served on the Cass Review’s Clinical Expert Group, wrote: “The Cass report is the most comprehensive review of available evidence, experience and expertise ever conducted.”

Its publication, he remarked, is “particularly timely” for Ireland as the country embarks on “a re-think and redevelopment” of its own gender healthcare programme.

The expert urged the Irish Government to heed the report’s warnings about prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children, which he said “must be stopped immediately”.

He also called on politicians to ditch controversial guidelines produced by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health from the nation’s health programme and adopt the Cass Report as its “key policy document” instead.

Pharmacies and schools

Dr Moran said Irish pharmacists should also “stop dispensing foreign gender healthcare hormone prescriptions”, in line with the Cass Report’s recommendation to the English health service.

Furthermore, he said, “Irish schools should not be taking the lead in the social transitioning of children.

“The Department of Health should reconsider some of the overly affirmative educational and training materials it is sending to schools and the prominent role it has given to activist organisations in policy development and teacher training.”

While he admitted that Ireland had “a lot of catching up to do”, he counselled: “The responsibility for supporting and keeping safe gender-incongruent children lies not just with the medical profession, but with all of society.”

Ideological damage

In the UK, over 140 prominent individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and professions have called on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to launch a public inquiry into the harm caused to children in the name of radical gender ideology.

Writing to Rishi Sunak, parliamentarians, clinicians, medics, campaigners, lawyers and detransitioners alike said the inquiry was necessary for the “future safety and wellbeing of our children”.

The letter stated that “gender identity ideology” – the idea that “everyone has a ‘gender identity’ that may differ from, and overrides, their birth sex” – had caused untold damage to children.

Among other considerations, it demanded an investigation into the growing number of children believing themselves to be transgender, and how and why “gender identity ideology became embedded in the policies and practices of relevant institutions”.