There is a very serious body of evidence here. You have an intervention which may not impact people in the way that it should do in the short term. I've spoken to people for the book who are very happily transitioned and they describe puberty blockers as life-saving. The surprising thing is to roll out one intervention to a massive group of people and not think that perhaps something else might be needed in some of those cases.
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…