0ur North America correspondent peter bowes sent this update. This means the trial of donald trump on charges that he was involved in a conspiracy to overthrow the result of the 2020 election will be significantly delayed if indeed it is able to go ahead at all. Donald trump is accused of being involved in a conspiracy to defraud the United States through his words, his actions, in the days leading up to january six, 2021, and the assault on the capitol building. He says he was the president at the time and therefore he cannot face these criminal charges because he had president ial immunity and that he cannot be charged for anything he did during that time. We have since heard from him again, after hearing about the Supreme Court does make intention is to look at this case, donald trump releasing a statement, reaffirming his still believed that president ial immunity applies. In fact, he says it is in the best interest of the United States, Notjust Talking about himself but referring
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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
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This subject . Yeah, absolutely, we did. And im Notjust Talking about the, you know, the online retribution that we got after we published our american story. I think we had there are factions within the profession, obviously, who have very strong views on this and i think that we to deal with it, you know, we had to hold a line and say, you know, just because youre a professional society doesnt mean that you have the appropriate Skill Set to appraise the evidence. You know, at the bmj, weve been focusing on the evidence based Medicine Movement for many, many decades, and particularly around too much medicine. So, whether that be for, i dont know, gestational Diabetes Or Thyroid cancer. So, what we had to do is treat this as part of that, so that gender based care for adolescents, was it an issue of too much medicine . And, jake kanter, if i could bring you in, from deadline, i wonder what your assessment of how the media reports on trans issues is. And i suppose, you know,