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The story of Gender GP and its founder Helen Webberley, labelled by one newspaper as one of Britain’s most controversial doctors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tortoise are hosting an event to discuss the questions that still remain around the closure of The Tavistock and the future of gender identity services in England and Wales. Join Tortoise Editor in Chief James Harding and plenty of other expert
Polly Curtis investigates why NHS England accelerated the closure of GIDS and what the future of the service could look like for children and young people. All episodes are now available to listen for free. Tortoise members can listen ad-free a
The public debate around the work of the Tavistock is getting louder. Kiera Bell wins a landmark ruling at the High Court which halts all new referrals for puberty blockers for under 18s on the NHS in England and Wales. She was prescribed puber
The internal divisions at GIDS and the wider Tavistock centre spill out into the open. Whistleblowers are publicly critical of GIDS. One accuses the service of fast tracking young people onto puberty blockers after just one meeting with clinici
As the increase in referrals to the Gender Identity Development Service increases, the profile of the young people seeking treatment changes too. There are now two natal girls for every natal boy, a complete reversal of what it had been a decad
Polly Carmichael became the director of the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock in 2009. “I remember our office was literally a room that had probably been a broom cupboard at one stage”, she recalls. But the decision in 2011 t
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. In this series journalist
From Tortoise, journalist Polly Curtis tells the story of the Gender Identity Development Service for children and young people at the Tavistock. The Tavi as it’s known is the only clinic in England and Wales which has treated children sufferin
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