Are politicians trying to undermine the Cass Review?

Women and Equalities Select Committee (WESC) held a one -off session on the safety and effectiveness of puberty blockers.

The committee chose to hear from the former clinical director of the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) Professor Gary Butler , who ran the endocrine clinic at University College London Hospitals ( UCLH ) which prescribed puberty blockers, seemed to be talking about a completely different Tavistock clinic to the one that was closed by NHS England .

The hearing was held by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health Ethics Committee .

Professor Simona Giordano was cited as being instrumental in Gids decision to block puberty in younger children.

Butler was the clinical lead of a service that has been closed down in part because of the poor care it provided.

It was as tone deaf as Giordano ’s remark that it was “ethically problematic’ to withhold medical treatment that is experienced as beneficial, that nobody has complained about, on the grounds that there is not enough evidence yet’, while Keira Bell sat a few feet away.

Young people deserve better than witnesses who don't think they deserve a higher standard of evidence underpinning their care.