Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING

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Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS’s flagship gender service for children.

About the Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS)

The Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) was initially established to provide talking therapies to young people questioning their gender identity.

However, over the last decade:

• GIDS referred approximately two thousand children, some as young as nine years old, for medication to block their puberty.
• The number of referrals increased dramatically.
• The profile of patients shifted from largely pre-pubescent boys to mostly adolescent girls, many of whom were dealing with other difficulties.

Was there enough clinical evidence to justify such profound medical interventions?

A Serious Medical Scandal

This urgent, scrupulous, and dramatic book explains:

• How GIDS became the site of a serious medical scandal.
• How ideological concerns took priority over clinical practice.

It is a disturbing and gripping parable for our times.