Why? For seeking to determine the best course of treatment for children and youth struggling with their gender and biological sex, that didn’t automatically involve acquiescing to approving their progression to puberty blockers as the sole response to their troubles. The incorrect use of the wrong words in the wrong context about the wrong person at the wrong time can lead you into trouble often followed by accusations of transphobia.Īs Barnes reports, this argument-ending cliché was levelled at a number of clinicians in the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) under the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust Foundation in north London (and later in its sister clinic in Leeds). Hannah Barnes has been praised for her work on BBC’s Newsnight covering the emerging crises in clinics treating children and young people experiencing gender dysphoria, reporting gender incongruence or wishing to change their gender identity – however you can put it to cover the wide variety of children and youth reporting that they are not happy in the bodies they are in.
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