The trans takeover of the NHS
by Lauren Smith, spiked:
Despite the planned closure of the Tavistock, the health service is still in thrall to gender ideology.
When the closure of the Tavistock clinic was announced last year, it appeared as if the tide might be turning against gender ideology in the NHS. However, there are reasons to be deeply concerned about what might come next. The trans takeover of the healthcare system seems to be continuing at pace.
Currently, the NHS’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, is England’s only specialist clinic for gender-identity issues in young people. When it finally closes its doors in March next year, multiple regional centres in existing children’s hospitals will take its place.
After the publication of Dr Hilary Cass’s damning interim report last year, it was hoped that there would be radical changes in the way the NHS treats gender-confused children in these new centres. Among other things, the report recommended that doctors prescribe puberty blockers less liberally and focus instead on addressing any underlying mental-health issues that a child might be dealing with.
Unfortunately, many of these recommendations are unlikely to be realised. For one thing, it emerged earlier this month that the new regional centres will continue to offer treatment to children as young as seven. This is a problem, even if these clinics end up taking a more cautious approach to puberty blockers and hormones than the Tavistock did. As former Tavistock governor-turned-whistleblower Dr David Bell told the Telegraph, the very act of ‘Labelling [a child’s] problem as a “gender problem” can easily be the first step on a pathway to medical transition’.
What’s more, it is hard to see how these new clinics will overcome the institutionalisation of gender ideology in the NHS more broadly. Just take a look at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), where one of the new regional centres will be located.
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