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Humza Yousaf owes Joanna Cherry an apology

Joanna Cherry (Credit: Getty images)

Following the publication last week of Dr Hilary Cass’s review of gender services provided by the NHS, politicians rushed to insert themselves on the right side of the debate. For many, this meant quite dizzying displays of reverse-ferreting.

After years of dismissing the concerns of medical experts, parents and feminist campaigners about treatments such as the administration of ‘puberty-blocking’ drugs, a remarkable number of MPs found that, in fact, they actually felt the same way. Cass laid out in black and white the lack of understanding of the long-term effects of such medical interventions and politicians could no longer dismiss the concerns of those holding gender critical views. To do so would be to tacitly support medical experimentation on confused children. These days, all the cool MPs are down with Cass. 

Take Labour’s shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, for example. The MP last week expressed regret for his past ‘transwomen are women, get over it’ dogmatism.

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