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Time to Think - The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children (Hardcover)
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Time to Think - The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children (Hardcover)
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Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about
the NHS's flagship gender service for children. The Gender Identity
Development Service (GIDS), based at the Tavistock and Portman
Trust in North London, was set up initially to provide - for the
most part - talking therapies to young people who were questioning
their gender identity. But in the last decade GIDS has referred
more than a thousand children, some as young as nine years old, for
medication to block their puberty. In the same period, the number
of young people seeking GIDS's help exploded, increasing
twenty-five-fold. The profile of the patients changed too: from
largely pre-pubescent boys to mostly adolescent girls, who were
often contending with other difficulties. Why had the patients
changed so dramatically? Were all these distressed young people
best served by taking puberty blockers and then cross-sex hormones,
which cause irreversible changes to the body? While some young
people appeared to thrive after taking the blocker, many seemed to
become worse. Was there enough clinical evidence to justify such
profound medical interventions in the lives of young people who had
so much else to contend with? This urgent, scrupulous and dramatic
book explains how, in the words of some former staff, GIDS has been
the site of a serious medical scandal, in which ideological
concerns took priority over clinical practice. Award-winning
journalist Hannah Barnes has had unprecedented access to thousands
of pages of documents, including internal emails and unpublished
reports, and well over a hundred hours of personal testimony from
GIDS clinicians, former service users and senoir Tavistock figures.
The result is a disturbing and gripping parable for our times.
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