It's too hard for some people to admit that this might not have been the right thing to do in each and every one of those young people's cases. I think there were practical reasons to explain it as well. You know, JIDS was part of what's known as specialist commissioning in the NHS. There are hundreds of them. It didn't come across their radar. But maybe... Yeah, there's no grand conspiracy, but maybe it just fell through the cracks.
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…