"In a landmark two-year review, the Health Council of the Netherlands—the country's highest advisory body -- has delivered its verdict on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.  The council's conclusions were universally positive for gender-affirming care: it endorsed the treatments as careful, lawful, and effective; framed quick access as a matter of the right to health; warned that 'doing nothing' is harmful; cast aside the Cass Review as not applicable to Dutch care; reported no cases of regret among trans youth patients; and called the reduction of the country's years-long wait times 'morally urgent.'  In doing so, the Netherlands becomes the latest in a series of European countries to reaffirm and strenghthen care for transgender youth, refuting a right-wing talking point in the United States that Europe is 'pulling back.'"