We will look back with horror at this mutilation of children done in the name of medicine

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 “transphobic” and bigoted. Never mind that I was simply concerned about safeguarding and wondering whatever happened to the dictum Do No Harm.

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All of this harm was being carried out in plain sight. The Keira Bell case alerted us to the fact that a confused young woman was prescribed puberty blockers after just three 50-minute sessions of “therapy”. 

This rush to put someone on a medical pathway (puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, double mastectomy) at an age when they could not possibly understand the irreversibility of some parts of the treatment was mutilation done in the name of medicine. It resembled no psychoanalytic therapy that had made the reputation of the Tavistock in the first place.

Groupthink and the importation of a particular ideology about gender identity prevailed...

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