Travesty at Tavistock: How whistleblowers brought down clinic that ignored concerns and 'fast-tracked' puberty blockers to children
The closure of London's Tavistock clinic may well prove to be a pivotal moment in the NHS's participation in what some quarters call 'radical trans ideology'.
The UK's sole child gender clinic was ordered to close it doors following more than a decade of allegations that it rushed teenagers onto life-altering puberty blocking drugs. The clinic, it is alleged, supplied potent hormone blockers and other medications to hundreds of youngsters. Allegations against Tavistock claim that children were 'fast-tracked into altering their gender' with many sustaining long-term physical and emotional harm.
The clinic, named the Gender and Identity Development Service (Gids), was launched more than three decades ago to help young people struggling with their gender identity.
Dr Hilary Cass, a paediatrician heading the NHS-commissioned review into Tavistock, recommended that Tavistock needed to be overhauled after speaking with whistleblowers. According to the Daily Mail, "concerns were first raised about the clinic in 2005, when Sue Evans, a nurse at GIDS warned that youngsters were being assessed too quickly and their treatment was influenced by transgender rights groups. She accused staff, some of whom she said previously worked at transgender charities such as Mermaids and Gendered Intelligence, of immediately affirming children's beliefs, rather than trying to understand all the difficulties the child was experiencing. Some referred patients for puberty blockers after just four appointments."
In February 2019, a report by Tavistock-board member Dr David Bell, revealed patients were suffering 'long term damage' because Gids could not 'stand up to the pressure' from 'highly politicised' campaigners and families. He claimed that some of the patients were adopting a trans identity 'as a solution' to 'multiple problems' including past child abuse, bereavement and homophobia. According to the Daily Mail, "Dr Bell accused the trust of providing 'woefully inadequate care' and that staff had 'very serious ethical concerns' about children making life-changing decisions with inadequate assessment or consent."
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The NHS has recently been embroiled in controversy regarding terminology used to describe women and illnesses and disorders affecting them. For instance, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists came under fire for maintaining that trans women should be admitted to female wards regardless of whether they still have male sex organs. The NHS's own website's menopause information no longer refers to 'women', but 'birthing people' or 'people with ovaries' and the like. Proponents of this terminology have been criticized for having sexist double standards. The NHS continues to use the word 'men'. For instance, according to official information on erectile dysfunction, the issue, the websites says, is especially frequent in "men over 40", and most "men" occasionally fail to maintain an erection.
The problem with 'birthing people'
Consider the case of Leslie Sinclair, a 66-year-old former Scottish engineer. Sinclair has given 125 pints of blood to the transfusion program over the course of the past 50 years. However, when he returned to his Stirling neighborhood's Albert Halls clinic for a donation and was required to fill out a formal form, his history proved ineffective.
One of the questions asked, "Are you pregnant or have you been in the last six months?" Naturally, Sinclair thought the question was absurd and declined to respond. Strangely, though, the personnel informed him that his blood wasn't going to be accepted by the clinic due to this.
According to former Tory Chancellor Nigel Lawson, the NHS is the closest approximation English people have to a religion. But when pregnant moms are referred to as "birthing people" or "persons capable of carrying children", sparks fly. One obstetrician last month stated the Royal College's position was "nonsense and disrespectful," and that it made her feel "ashamed."
In the meantime, Baroness Emma Nicholson recently issued a warning in the House of Lords on the effect this woke doctrine has on the security of female patients. She brought up a disturbing instance in which a hospital attempted to cover up what was allegedly a transgender patient's rape in a single-sex ward.
'Woke agenda' taking precedence over systemic flaws
Dr Nick Watts, the NHS's 'chief sustainability officer', said last month that GPs' decision to stop scheduling in-person visits, which has angered a large portion of the population, was better for the environment since the change to online and telephone appointments cut carbon emissions.
As part of the NHS's claimed goal to provide top-tier, zero-emission health care, doctors' departure from their fundamental responsibilities was framed as a step toward social justice. The vast majority of this will not be an issue if the NHS provides high-quality healthcare.
An astounding 6.5 million people are currently on a hospital waiting list. Pressure on the accident and emergency departments is high, in part due to the collapse in the physician service. A minimum of 5% of patients hospitalized in these facilities must wait 12 hours before seeing a doctor.
The UK was ranked 17th for life expectancy out of 19 developed nations in April, considerably below Germany, Spain, and Japan, according to a report by the think tank Civitas. "Our cancer survival rates are shockingly low. We are the worst for strokes and heart attacks. We are one from bottom for preventing treatable diseases. We are third from bottom for infant mortality," according to scientist Tim Knox.
As many campaigners claim, these issues are not totally the result of underfunding. In actuality, at 10.2% of GDP in 2019, the UK's healthcare spending was in accordance with the average throughout Europe.