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The cass review, as its 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 uks gender Identity Services for the corporations 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 and she had spoken to two clinicians who worked at the service. It wasnt really a Big Sort Of Whistle blowy piece but they had talked to her and said what theyd seen and itjust i thought it was very interesting, but i was off and, you know, spending time with my baby. And there was also a documentary
What s happened here i mean, ispoke with doctor cass upon publication of her report in a short interview, and it is normal. it s part of nhs, isn t it, to listen to the voices of service users? of course it is. and she said to me and this is a quote but obviously not to the point where you re not following the evidence, which is what s happened here. i suppose there s a question, isn t there, around quite often with journalism, you re looking for a case study particularly when it s complicated. you want an individual who typifies what s going on and it s the human voice behind the story, if you like. and was that the instinct here? and was that the wrong instinct? i think it s the right instinct but i don t think there s one case study that typifies it. i mean, when i was researching. but maybe there never is. well, no no, you re probably right! but, you know, i don t doubt that, you know and we ve heard many of these voices in the past week and i ve spoken to them mysel
Happened here i mean, i spoke with doctor cass upon publication of her report in a short interview, and it is normal. it s part of nhs, isn t it, to listen to the voices of service users? of course it is. and she said to me and this is a quote but obviously not to the point where you re not following the evidence, which is what s happened here. i suppose there s a question, isn t there, around quite often withjournalism, you re looking for a case study particularly when it s complicated. you want an individual who typifies what s going on and it s the human voice behind the story, if you like. and was that the instinct here? and was that the wrong instinct? i think it s the right instinct but i don t think there s one case study that typifies it. i mean, when i was researching. but maybe there never is. well, no no, you re probably right. but, you know, i don t doubt that, you know and we ve heard many of these voices in the past week and i ve spoken to them myself tha
Which is threadbare evidence. i suppose the issue is exactly what cass was talking about weak evidence. you know, this was new medical territory. you know, how do you approach stories when you re reporting on this kind of medicine? well, the same way that you would any story, you know you d speak to the people who are experts, you listen to them and it s really. i think it s a really unique feature of this story compared to anything i ve done before. i m a generalist. i m not a healthjournalist. but, generally speaking, if you ask questions or you critique an evidence base and, really, we have known for a very long time that the evidence base is practically non existent when you do that, you wouldn t usually be accused of hating or wanting to kill the patient population who are being treated by that. but you re saying that s what happened to you? well, yes, it does happen. you know. i guess the question is. to ask questions, you re then accused of being transphobic and you kn