The Heartbreaking Story of an Openly Gay Teenager

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A young teenage boy was openly gay and showering five times a day. He blurted out to his mother: I'm trans. You've been misgendering me my entire life. And from the moment that he'd said that, cams would affirm him as female. His mental health deteriorated very, very rapidly. It got to the point where he couldn't leave the house or go to school. The floor of his bedroom had to have plastic sheets on it. After several years, he didn't identify as trans anymore but still has mental health problems.

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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