Clinicians said they didn't see a single young person for whom everything was fine apart from their gender identity. Many said that these were the most complicated, distressed and traumatized young people they'd ever worked with. And even if some of those young people, you know, were trans and would benefit from transitioning, they're not in the right place to do it safely.
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…