Gender Identity, Children and the NHS
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The only NHS service in England to offer gender identity services to children announced it would be closing down last year - after years of whistleblowers who worked there trying to raise the alarm about a scandal in their midst: a failure to safeguard some of the country's most vulnerable young adults.
What went wrong?
And how much did the toxic political climate at the time over trans issues contribute to a work practice that was not fit for purpose. We talk to the investigative reporter Hannah Barnes who's new book Time to Think reflects her years spent talking to those involved - the staff, the families and most importantly, the children themselves.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | We thought we'd start by telling you what today's episode of the newsagents is not. |
| 0:18.8 | It is not a debate about trans rights or transitioning or the right of people to |
| 0:27.1 | choose to transition. But what it is is an examination of a failed service in NHS England. |
| 0:36.7 | It was a gender identity development service that went wrong. |
| 0:43.3 | And it's led to serious concerns about the safeguarding of some of our most vulnerable |
| 0:49.1 | children, because it was quite simply the only one in England. |
| 0:53.7 | And because it was an simply the only one in England. |
| 0:59.3 | And because it was an institution that dealt with what has become one of the most politically charged issues of our modern politics, gender, |
| 1:05.9 | and changing your gender, it has found itself, |
| 1:09.1 | and its failure has found itself at the top of the headlines. |
| 1:13.4 | And we're going to be speaking to someone, an old colleague of both mine and Emily's, Hannah Barnes, |
| 1:18.8 | who has literally written the book on this clinic and who, dispassionately, brilliantly, through painstaking journalism and research tells us about |
| 1:32.0 | what went wrong, how and why it matters for trans people and for the NHS in the future. |
| 1:39.3 | Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:43.8 | The news agents. The Newsagents. |
| 1:46.2 | It's Emily. |
| 1:47.2 | And it's Lewis. |
| 1:47.7 | And today we're going to be talking about JIDS, the Gender Identity Development Service for |
| 1:53.8 | children and young people, adolescents, the young people who chose to transition or to make a move towards transitioning. |
| 2:03.8 | And we're going to talk about what happened at the Tavistock Trust, |
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