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The tragic consequences of Tavistock’s gender dogma:  Children and parents fell victim to a system that was too quick to affirm a child’s new identity TELEGRAPH VIEW 29 July 2022 • 6:00am The Tavistock clinic is to be closed by next spring  The Tavistock gender identity clinic is to be shut down by the NHS after a review found it is unsafe for children. Critics had long argued that the clinic, which could give puberty blockers to under-16s if they were deemed able to give consent, was catapulting children into drastic surgical change to their sex without proper consultation. The paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass found it was “not a safe or viable long-term option”. Concerns about Tavistock were raised as long ago as 2004 by staff, and it has since been accused of being heavily influenced by groups such as Mermaids and Stonewall while cutting out parents, who were told they were guilty of “transphobia”. In 2020 the High Court ruled in favour of Keira Bell, a 23-year-old who took puberty blo

JANICE TURNER Gender clinics face scrutiny of science at last Hilary Cass’s report vindicates the many whistleblowers who for years had raised concerns about the Tavistock Centre Janice Turner Friday July 29 2022, 9.00pm, The Times Share D r Hilary Cass prefaced her statement on the future of child gender services with a quote from the American statistician W Edwards Deming: “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.” To anyone who has followed the grim practices of the Tavistock clinic, now thankfully to be closed down, this marks a quiet, careful but profoundly radical shift. Writing on this topic, I’ve often encountered facts so dangerous and beliefs so bizarre, so beyond science or reason, it’s been hard to convey their existence. Listen, you say, British doctors are prescribing a drug used to chemically castrate rapists to halt puberty in children as young as 11. The drug isn’t even approved for child gender dysphoria. It reduces growth and bone density, sterilises

We will look back with horror at this mutilation of children done in the name of medicine Groupthink and a particular ideology about gender identity led to vulnerable people being given life-changing medication at Tavistock Clinic SUZANNE MOORE 28 July 2022 • 10:56pm I am very glad to hear that NHS England is to take on board all of the recommendations of the Cass Report and “decommission” the Tavistock Clinic, or GIDS as it is known (Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service).  This is not because I don’t care about young people with gender dysphoria. Quite the opposite, I care very much. For many years now, some staff at the Tavistock have been concerned about what has been going on there; from putting young people on puberty blockers (which almost inevitably leads to cross-sex hormones) at a very young age to the staggering change in the kinds of young people seeking treatment. To ask questions about these practices (as I did at my former newspaper) was to be deemed “transphob

Tavistock gender clinic forced to shut over safety fears “The NHS is shutting down its gender identity clinic for children after a review found that it failed vulnerable under-18s. The gender identity service at Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust has been ordered to close by next spring. It will be replaced by regional centres at existing children’s hospitals offering more “holistic care” with “strong links to mental health services”. Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic has been accused of rushing children into life-altering treatment on puberty blockers. The paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, who is leading a review of the service, issued a series of recommendations today for a radical overhaul of how the NHS treats young people who are questioning their gender identity. She found that the Tavistock clinic was “not a safe or viable long-term option” and that other mental health issues were “overshadowed” when gender was raised by children referred to the

What went wrong at the Tavistock clinic for trans teenagers?  "For me it began with a graph. In 2017, I was shown a chart of children referred to GIDS, the Tavistock and Portman Trust’s Gender Identity Development Service clinic in northwest London. Overall case numbers had risen – from just 72 in 2009-10 to 1,807 in 2016-17 – but there was something more puzzling. Female referrals, once a fraction of males, now made up 70 per cent: from 32 to 1,265. The number of teenage girls with gender dysphoria (ie profound discomfort with their biological sex) had risen by 5,000 per cent in 7 years. My journalistic curiosity was sparked, more so when I could find no mention of this in the mainstream press. The only people collecting data and testimony were online parents’ groups in Britain and the US. Moreover, their stories revealed a distinct pattern, repeated worldwide from Australia to Sweden. The stories all began with a daughter who rejected “girlie” clothes and toys for “boyish” pursu

Candidates who sidestep the gender issue are not fit for high office We need a Prime Minister who is prepared to speak up for women's rights NIKKI DA COSTA11 July 2022 • 12:20pm Nikki da Costa If you want to be Prime Minister, you need to be able to answer the question ‘What is a woman?’ It’s not a ‘gotcha question’, it is a litmus test for honesty. Are you willing to acknowledge why this question has become important? Are you willing to say what you think, to make the arguments, and to keep making them? Can you handle difficult conversations with the nation? Will fear of the next day’s headlines shape your thinking, or your thinking shape the headlines? How you handle that question, with sensitivity and respect to trans people and to women, provides crucial insight to how you will run No 10. I am deeply cautious about any candidate that brushes the question aside, arguing there are more important issues. Doing so is disingenuous. The economic and systemic challenges are significan

JANICE TURNER ‘Sex positive’ education is harming children Outsourcing the teaching of health and relationships has left parents in the dark about explicit and biased content Janice Turner Friday July 01 2022, 9.00pm, The Times M ost parents approach children’s questions about sex with careful thought. We know that our period chat, puberty Q&A, our bleakly vital guidance on sexting and porn won’t just affect their present happiness and bodily ease, but future relationships too. We entrust schools to make up for our shortfalls or embarrassment, to further our conversations with sensitivity and fact. We’d expect RSHE (relationships, sex and health education) lessons to be conducted by trained teachers, schooled in biology, alert to pornified and misleading internet content. We’d hope our kids learn not just where babies come from but that sexuality is diverse, that sex isn’t just about problems, like STIs and abortion, but a source of joy. Instead your child may be taught by the Scho

Here’s a Weird New Discovery About Pedophiles By  Jesse Singal Photo: Don Smith/Getty Images When most people think about sexual orientation, they think about the straight/bi/gay spectrum (if you can call it a spectrum) — that is, whom you’re attracted to. But as has been previously pointed out in this space, there’s more to sexual orientation than that. For example, another, less discussed facet of sexual orientation is the target of sexual attraction: Is the person attracted to others, to themselves, or to both? When someone is “sexually aroused by the idea or fantasy of being the erotic target,” it’s known as an erotic-target identity inversion, or ETII, and that’s the subject of a new paper in  Psychological Science , not yet online, by Kevin Hsu and J. Michael Bailey, both of Northwestern University. As Hsu and Bailey point out, researchers don’t know much about ETIIs, and in fact only two types have really found their way into the literature. The most widely cited is autogynephil