JIDS was not just a therapeutic project, it was a justice project and it was about extending the rights to live one's life. It wasn't about challenging who they were but respecting their identity. The argument is that young people know who they are and it would be cruel to deny them the chance to live as the person they feel themselves to be.
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…