Editorial 10 April 2024.
Many of Wednesday’s newspapers cover the newly published review by paediatrician Hilary Cass into NHS provision of gender care for children.
There’s also coverage of the ongoing Post Office scandal as Alan Bates gave evidence at the inquiry yesterday.
Major Gender care review
The Daily Mail headline declares “At last”. The paper calls the “landmark report on gender care” a “voice of sanity on children and trans dogma.” The Mail says campaigners have called the review a return to common sense.
The Daily Telegraph says the NHS will now re-examine all the transgender treatment it provides in the wake of the report.
The Times says the use of puberty blockers “spread around the world at pace” based on a single Dutch study that began in 1998. However, Dr Aidan Kelly is quoted in the Guardian, the clinical psychologist specialising in gender, disputes many of the Cass findings, saying a German review had found puberty blockers were safe and effective.
Cass Review final report
Read the Cass Review here
Post Office scandal inquiry
The FT features an image of Alan Bates – the former subpostmaster, as he headed into the Horizon IT inquiry to give evidence. The paper headlines it as “Mr Bates’s day”.
The Daily Mirror says Bates “electrified” the evidence session as he described his war with “thugs in suits” running the Post Office. The Telegraph says his answers at the inquiry were “short, precise and often funny.” The Guardian calls him a “star witness” describing him as honest and stubborn.
Cameron and Trump meet
Foreign Secretary David Cameron has flown to the US, where he met with former US President Donald Trump – who’s in the running for the 2024 presidential election.
The i newspaper called the meeting between the two was “productive and warm”. It says talks were requested by Cameron as he views the former US president as a key player in unblocking 60 billion dollars of US aid for Ukraine.
The Times reports that Mike Johnson, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, said he could not find the time for a meeting with Cameron. The Sun says “Make ‘em pay” suggesting the “future of Ukraine remains on a knife edge.”