A disproportionate number of kids at JIDS which is the NHS's only gender clinic for children and young people in England and Wales suffer from gender dysphoria. Fear of womanhood, fear of growing up, fear of going through puberty are just some of the fears they share with anorexic girls. "I do know what it's like to be an unhappy teenage girl," says author who grew up in a part of London where there are many experimenting with gender.
Shortly after her fourteenth birthday, Hadley Freeman stopped eating. From the age of fourteen to seventeen, she lived in various psychiatric wards with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. And for the next decade, the condition would revisit and interrupt her life in numerous ways. In conversation with journalist Bari Weiss and drawing on her new book Good Girls, Freeman recounts her harrowing account of this complex condition.
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