Ideology, the ideology did trump medical evidence here. It may have been well-intentioned that there was a desire to help distressed young people but it stemmed from a belief that you were helping someone fulfill their true identity. So I think that is where you can certainly say that ideology influenced because this was a belief system really, it wasn't based on evidence. Things can be well intentioned but ill-informed. Who's to blame? Lots of people are to blame. The leadership of jeds is to blame and they should take responsibility for the decisions they did and didn't make. NHS England does not provide adequate oversight. And so are the politicians who have heard about these concerns for
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…