The Dilemma of Trans People

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I think it's far more heated in the States than it is here. I would actually say that some of the people on the right have made this a more difficult conversation to have because of how inflammatory and how reactionary some of their conversations have been. And what I've tried to keep in mind while writing was, you know, we're talking about children and young people. And often those young people are really distressed. It doesn't help to speak in really inflammatory terms.

Hannah Barnes is an award-winning investigative journalist, and an author.

Finding your place in the world can be hard. However, some interventions for struggling children may cause more harm than good. Britain's Gender Identity Development Service at The Tavistock Clinic has recently been shut down after controversial use of puberty blockers and Hannah's investigation uncovers exactly what happened.

Expect to learn why there was a huge increase in the number of children being referred for puberty blockers, just how ideological this institution was, whether the effects of puberty blockers can be reversed, whether children can consent to life altering medication, just who is to blame, how these treatments can put children on a one-way-ticket to much more serious procedures and much more…

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