JIDS is the second oldest gender clinic for children and young people just after the Netherlands. It became under increasing pressure to provide those medications to younger aged people. The concerns that they had at the time was what impact blocking puberty could have on bones, because puberty is the time where our bone mineral density is increasing at its fastest rate. So if you stop that, what's the impact going to be longer term? And we still don't really know that.
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…