Living with a transgender foster child
This is a guest post from the mother of a transgender foster child, detailing her experience with doctors, therapists and social services as she tries to protect the child in…
The BAGIS Scientific Symposium: in search of the Overton window
A report on the BAGIS Scientific Symposium in Durham, October 3 - 4 2019 by Susan Matthews ‘My musings on my last thread really reminded me of how angry…
The astonishing admission in the Health Research Authority report: The purpose of puberty blockers is to commit children to permanent physical transition
by Michael Biggs The Health Research Authority (HRA) has just published its investigation into the 2010 experiment with puberty blockers, or more precisely its role in giving ethical approval and…
In whose best interests? The transitioning of preschool children
The following post examines two cases concerned with the transitioning of preschool children, both heard in the High Court, but which had very different outcomes. We wrote about both these…
Autistic Girls : Gender’s silent frontier
Jane Galloway at age 16 A guest post by Jane Galloway Jane Galloway is an Autistic woman with ADHD. Like so many autistic females, she was only diagnosed in her…
What Questions Should a School be Asking about Mermaids Training for Teachers?
The contributor of these notes is a language teacher and department chair in a secondary school. She has over 20 years of teaching experience in both the UK and international school…
Does Tavistock GIDS fast-track 16+ referrals of adolescents with gender dysphoria?
by Susan Matthews, academic and contributor to the book Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body and the follow-up book Inventing Transgender Children and Young People, available…
“We Really Really Tried.” A 2017 Letter from GIDS Clinicians Ignored by The Guardian
In today's Observer, sister paper to the Guardian, there is an article about the current controversies surrounding Tavistock GIDS, and the concerns expressed by current and former GIDS clinicians and…
Tavistock’s Experiment with Puberty Blockers: an Update
by Michael Biggs, Dept of Sociology, University of Oxford (22 July 2019) Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust started an experiment in 2011, using Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone agonist (GnRHa) to block puberty in…
What does Scotland’s U-Turn on Transgender Schools Guidance Mean for England and Wales?
The Scottish government has taken the welcome step of having a rethink on many areas concerning changes to the GRA. The LGBT Youth transgender schools guidance has now been withdrawn…
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