“A dangerous social and medical experiment”
This is a guest post from a supply teacher who describes the transgender lesson she was a sked to teach to children as a "well-funded, dangerous social and medical experiment"…
The Tavistock’s experiment with puberty blockers, part 5: the belated results
by Michael Biggs, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. The Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) and University College London have finally released the results of their experiment on puberty…
Keira Bell: The High Court hands down a historic judgment to protect vulnerable children
In a landmark judgment that will have repercussions around the world the High Court today ruled that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are experimental treatments which cannot be given to…
Covid-19 and trans healthcare provision
Since the start of the Covid-19 crisis we have been watching transgender support groups and health services to see what advice and information is being offered to children and young…
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…
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…
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…
First Do No Harm: the Ethics of Transgender Healthcare, House of Lords
Last week an event sponsored by Lord Moonie in the House of Lords for Standing for Women brought together a panel of medical experts and parent organisations from the UK…
Johanna Olson-Kennedy and the US Gender Affirmative Approach
"We gender really early" We have heard recent revelations in the press of ex-Tavistock clinicians' concerns about the treatment of children with gender dysphoria and the pressure exerted on them…