Jibs is still open but has lost a lot of staff recently. The NHS announced last summer it's planned to close it. But new services will be more holistic and focus on psychosocial issues. There are at least seven and a half thousand young people waiting for help. Some of them waiting for years in distress and with nothing.
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…