Succinct summary of the NHS’s discredited gender identity service for young people.
Clinical Damage The Tavistock Centre’s closure follows a damning report on ideological malpractice
The damage done is immeasurable. No one knows how years of ideological dogma, inappropriate treatment and a culpable failure to consider the overall mental welfare of the children treated by the Tavistock Clinic will affect the thousands referred to its Gender Identity Development Service.
Marci Bowers, American gynecologist and surgeon is also a gender reassignment surgeon. Bowers, born male, but now a trans-woman, candidly admits the results of administering puberty blockers to children by age 11, as many Gender Ideologues advocate. (The sooner we stop puberty the better, they say.)
Well, not really.
“Every single child, or adolescent, who was truly blocked at Tanner stage 2 [by age 11] has never experienced orgasm. I mean, it’s really about zero.” – Marci Bowers, “Trans & Gender Diverse Policies, Care, Practices, and Wellbeing” (2022)pic.twitter.com/u7ohsal5JT
Eighteen years ago, Susan Evans blew the whistle on the NHS’s only gender identity service for young people at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.
Alarm bells had started ringing for the nurse when she realised colleagues had referred a distressed 16-year-old boy who thought of himself as female for hormone treatment after only four appointments.
She saw a service that was under “tremendous pressure” from trans campaign groups such as Mermaids and she was alienated by other staff members for questioning the medicalisation of young people.
Her complaints prompted an internal inquiry in 2004, but nothing changed, Ms Evans said, and felt she had no option but to walk away for her own mental health.
In the 18 years that followed, as more than 20,000 children were referred, history repeated itself.
