The stomach-drop moment I realised there was something terribly wrong at the Tavistock gender clinic: Nurse reveals why she blew the whistle on ‘experimental’ treatment on children as young as ten

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1. This is what happens when activism gets in the way of science and research.

   A vocal minority has caused centres like this to bypass traditional approaches and move to more reactionary treatment like puberty blockers quicker than they would have done in the past.

2. Some “concern” for us she has going in the daily mail to get our healthcare banned.

   It’s not actually concern, it’s the kind of “concern” Christian preachers have about gay kids, a paternalistic need to control our lives in the name of knowing ourselves better than we do. Psychologists are not immune to doing it, if anything they’re often worse since society acts like they can read minds and some clearly believe it.

   edit also:

   > There were other red flags: in one instance, when responding to a GP following the initial assessment of a 14-year-old boy expressing gender dysphoria, Sue was chided by a fellow clinician for not referring to the teenager by his ‘preferred’ female name in her correspondence.

   > ‘I was told I needed to call him ‘her’ in the letter,’ she recalls.

   This is exactly what I was talking about, why was she working at a gender clinic if she was unwilling to refer to a trans person by their name or pronouns?

3. I thought the main problem there was that patients weren’t being seen in a timely enough manner?