Talk:Cass Review/FAQ
Language
[edit]What is the Cass Review?
[edit]Proposed draft:
If someone says "the Cass Review", they might mean one of several things. They might mean:
- a group of people ("The Cass Review didn't have any trans people on staff"),
- the project ("NHS England commissioned the Cass Review"),
- the results ("The Cass Review prompted the government to stop private clinics from prescribing puberty blockers to trans kids"),
- the artifacts produced ("The Cass Review consists in seven commissioned peer-reviewed review articles, an interim report, and a final report"),
- the final report alone ("The Cass Review wasn't externally peer reviewed"), etc.
Please try to be specific about what you mean (e.g., "The final report said..."), and if someone says something about "the Cass Review" that doesn't seem correct, please ask them to clarify their statement.
Is the final report a government report?
[edit]Proposed draft:
In British English, "the government" usually refers to the current political administration (e.g., the second government of Boris Johnson). NHS England, which commissioned the Cass Review project during the Johnson government, is a non-departmental public body and so not considered part of the (political) government. However, in American English, in which the phrase "the government" is used much more broadly, then both the interim and final reports would be considered government reports. On the talk page, if someone says something about "the government" or "a government report" that doesn't seem correct, remember that they're probably using the word with a meaning less common in your country.
In the actual article, per WP:TIES we use the British sense of "government" in cases where we absolutely have to use the word. However, because this is known to be confusing, please substitute other words like "administration" for the British sense of government or "public"/"official" for the American sense of government where possible.
Sources
[edit]What is the Yale Integrity Project paper?
[edit]Proposed draft:
The Yale Integrity Project white paper, despite the name, is not officially associated with Yale University. It's called that because two of the nine co-authors are also the founders of the Integrity Project at Yale, a collaboration between Yale Law School and Yale School of Medcine, and the white paper can primarily be found on the Integrity Project website. However, both Yale as well as the paper itself have explicitly said the paper is not associated with Yale and the opinions expressed are only those of the authors.
Several of the authors are physicians but others aren't, including one of the two associated with the Integrity Project. So far this white paper has only been published on the Integrity Project website, and thus is currently an WP:EXPERTSPS for the professional opinions of the authors. It should therefore only be used with caution and attribution.