Mon Feb 20, 2023 – 3:04 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — On February 16, a bombshell book by BBC Newsnight’s Hannah Barnes titled Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children was published. Barnes’ book is based on more than 100 hours of interviews with Tavistock’s clinicians (20 staff have quit since a medical review recommended the clinic be shut down by spring of 2023), former patients, and medical experts.
According to The Guardian—yes, The Guardian—Barnes’ book “is the story of the hurt caused to potentially hundreds of children since 2011, and perhaps before that. To shrug in the face of that story – to refuse to listen to the young transgender people whose treatment caused, among other things, severe depression, sexual dysfunction, osteoporosis and stunted growth.”
Consider this excerpt, published by the Daily Mail:
The puberty-blockers affected Jacob in ways he says he hadn’t been warned about before starting treatment. He experienced a range of intense and unpleasant side-effects. “On one of them I had really bad insomnia, on another one really bad anger problems.”
He broke a knuckle from punching something. He had felt depressed before
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