A verdict | The Tavistock Ep 1
The Walkers: The real Salt Path | Tortoise Investigates
The Observer
4.6 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In the summer of 2022 the NHS announced it was winding up the Gender Identity Development Service for children and young people at the Tavistock. Critics of the service celebrated, its supporters were left in despair. Journalist Polly Curtis has spent months trying to understand what happened. Why has it attracted such criticism and what is the best way going forward of treating young people with gender dysphoria?
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| 1:19.0 | journalism in print. Head to observer.com.uk forward slash print and you can find out more. Hello, it's Bashar here. The Tavistock, or the Tavi, as it's often called, is the only NHS clinic in England and Wales |
| 1:44.4 | which treats children suffering from gender dysphoria. |
| 1:48.3 | Its critics have accused it of fast-tracking young people into changing their gender, |
| 1:53.2 | but its supporters argue that it's provided help and support, even a lifeline, for some. |
| 2:00.2 | From Tortus, journalist Polly Curtis tells the story of the Gender Identity Development |
| 2:05.1 | Service for Children and Young People and the story of what's happened to it. I was in the kitchen, |
| 2:22.3 | looking at my phone, as usual, and talking to other parents, |
| 2:31.3 | and we were happy. |
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