back in 2020, the health authorities commissioned a report into the care that children and young people who were questioning their gender were getting. the cass review, as it's called, came out last week, and it recommends a new approach for clinicians. this is a polarising subject for some people. so, what mightjournalism do differently in how it covers it? hannah barnes is a former bbc producer who investigated some of the uk's gender identity services for the corporation's newsnight programme. she went on to write a book about it. i asked her when she first started her investigation. first came across it at all in 2017. i was off on my first maternity leave and there was a piece in the times byjanice turner which was talking about this really rapid increase in the referrals of teenage girls to gids — the gender identity development service —