GIDS only referred young people for puberty blockers. They didn't offer extended ongoing talking therapy or physical interventions. Little is known about the long-term side effects of using puberty blockers to treat this condition, because they function very differently when used in gender distress young people. The NHS and its official guidance acknowledges that we don’t know what long-term impact blocking puberty might have on brain development,. cognitive development, on sexuality, on the development of other identities.
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…