Children are well one minute and very sick the next. So you have much less time than you have with adults. - Hilary Cass

We've got it locked into this focus on medical interventions. And certainly some of the young adults said to us, they wish they'd known when they were younger, that there were more ways of being trans than just a binary medical transition.

Because of the toxicity of the debate, [children have] often been bypassed by local services who've been really nervous about seeing them. So rather than doing the things that they would do for other young people with depression or anxiety, or perhaps undiagnosed autistic spectrum disorder, they’ve tended to pass them straight on to the Gids service.

If a family can walk out of the hospital having lost their child and say that they couldn't have been better supported, then I can go home and feel OK.