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.
The language is not easy. 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.
As 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).
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.
Time to Think: the title refers to the rationale behind putting children, even before they have hit their teens, on puberty blockers when they are potentially questioning whether their biological sex aligns with their felt identity. The aim is/was, ostensibly, to put off the physical occurrence of puberty to give the child space to work through with their feelings with the support of therapists, social workers and others.
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REVIEW Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children by Hannah Barnes – Gript
REVIEW Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children by Hannah Barnes – Gript
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