The Story of GIDS

3min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Domenico de Chaley was moved by an example of a young person who strongly identified as male and distressed about being in this female body. He decided that there had to be a specialist service for these young people with gender incongruence. And he succeeded in opening this service in 1989 at a South London hospital called St George's. It then moved to its current home, the Tavistock and Portman in 1994. For quite a long time, the numbers were very small. The service was about talking therapies, about trying to help those children and young people explore their gender identity.

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…

Sponsors:

Get 10% discount on Marek Health’s comprehensive blood panels at https://marekhealth.com/modernwisdom (use code: MODERNWISDOM)

Get 15% discount on Bon Charge’s red light therapy devices at https://boncharge.com/modernwisdom (use code: MW15)

Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first box at https://www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout)

Extra Stuff:

Buy Time To Think - https://amzn.to/3GkjIRX

Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/

To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom

Get in touch.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast