Tavistock clic ‘puttg young gay people at risk by treatg them as trans’

Contents:

• SOON-TO-CLOSE NHS TAVISTOCK CLIC IS ACCED OF 'TRANSG THE GAY AWAY' BTER LEGAL DISPUTE
• TAVISTOCK CLIC ‘PUTTG YOUNG GAY PEOPLE AT RISK BY TREATG THEM AS TRANS’
• IT FEELS LIKE NVERSN THERAPY FOR GAY CHILDREN, SAY CLICIANS
• CONTROVERSIAL TAVISTOCK GENR CLIC 'PHED GAY TEENS TO TRANSNG', FORMER EMPLOYEE CLAIMS
• TAVISTOCK GENR CLIC ‘NVERTG’ GAY CHILDREN
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• CONTROVERSIAL TAVISTOCK CENTRE IS 'NNG A NVERSN THERAPY FOR GAY CHILDREN'
• NHS GENR CLIC ‘NNG NVERSN THERAPY FOR GAY CHILDREN’
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
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SOON-TO-CLOSE NHS TAVISTOCK CLIC IS ACCED OF 'TRANSG THE GAY AWAY' BTER LEGAL DISPUTE

Photograph: AlamyAmong the ncerns were the fact that children attendg GIDS often seemed to be rehearsed and sometim did not share their parents’ sense of urgency; that senr staff spoke of “straightforward s” terms of children who were to be put on puberty blockers (no se of genr dysphoria, not Bell, n be said to be straightforward); that some were remend for treatment after jt two appotments and seen only equently thereafter; some felt that GIDS employed too many experienced (and expensive) psychologists; that clicians who’d spoken of homophobia the un were told they had “personal issu”. ” He worri that too much emphasis is placed on genr and not enough on sexualy – “the children are often gay” – and he ntu to be anx about -morbidi such as anorexia, tism and history of trma s patients.

Homosexual men were given behavural therapi and so on. ” The current mpaign to ban so-lled gay nversn therapy is, he believ, likely to bee a Trojan horse for trans activists who will e to put prsure on any clician who do not immediately affirm a young person’s statement about their inty, cryg this, too, as a form of “nversn”. The UK's soon-to-close child genr clic has been acced of wrongly nvcg gay and bisexual people that they are Tavistock Clic was orred to close doors July after a damng report found was 'not safe' for children.

The clic, which opened the 1980s, was cricised for allegedly shg teenagers onto life-alterg puberty blockg Alliance, a chary which touts self as protectg the rights of lbian, gay and bisexual people, has now acced the clic of 'transg the gay away' prented data that showed two-thirds of children referred to the clic — the only one of s kd Bra — intify as gay or bisexual.

TAVISTOCK CLIC ‘PUTTG YOUNG GAY PEOPLE AT RISK BY TREATG THEM AS TRANS’

Mermaids argu that the LGB Alliance more harm than benefs to the public by discrimatg agast transgenr people — and therefore nnot be a s fence, LGB Alliance claims is need to protect young gay people agast treatment given to trans children who want to change genr. Acrdg to The Telegraph's acunt of the hearg London yterday, the LGB Alliance said the 'greatt threat' to the muny reprents is genr dysphoria is bee health staff are wrongly nvcg gay children that they are trans, LGB Alliance Tavistock clic, which has treated 9, 000 children sce opened 1989, has faced a myriad of accatns that shed children to change genr.

IT FEELS LIKE NVERSN THERAPY FOR GAY CHILDREN, SAY CLICIANS

Concerns were first raised 2005, when one of s nurs warned youngsters were beg asssed too quickly and their treatment was fluenced by transgenr rights Alliance said 60 per cent of boys and 70 per cent of girls referred to Tavistock are gay or bisexual, while jt 17 per cent of the populatn are not there has been a huge 4, 400 per cent crease the number of girls referred to the clic, wh triple the number of girls attendg the clic pared to boys.

Lawyers for LGB Alliance equated this wh 'transg the gay away' and said may leave a disproportnate number of lbian children unable to have youngsters referred to the clic were given puberty blockers, which stop any physil chang, such as breast velopment and facial is known about their long-term effects and almost all patients who receive them go on to start treatment wh cross-sex hormon, which e irreversible chang such as breast velopment and epeng of the voice.

LGB Alliance also argued works to protect gay people om 'homophobic' attacks, cludg lbians who are prsured to 'drop their sexual boundari' and have sex wh those born as men but intify as barrister argued that LGBT chary Stonewall has labelled those not wantg to date trans people as discrimatory, parg to refg to date 'people of lour, fat people or disabled people' uld trigger nflict between those attracted to members of the same sex and trans people, wh the former needg a chary to 'reprent them this nflict', LGB Alliance's barrister said.

CONTROVERSIAL TAVISTOCK GENR CLIC 'PHED GAY TEENS TO TRANSNG', FORMER EMPLOYEE CLAIMS

However, LGBT Consortium, an membership group for Bra's LGBT groups, nied that any bodi were 'transg the gay away' and acced LGB Alliance of beg formed to attack trans Roberts, head of LGBT Consortium, said was 'transphobic' to claim 'a person wh a female body nnot be a gay man' after Tavistock was fally orred to close s doors July after Dr Hilary Cass, a top paediatrician leadg an NHS-missned review to the clic, told health chiefs that the centre need to be an terim report March, Dr Cass h out at the lack of 'open discsn' at the tst about s treatment, which was not subject to qualy ntrols.

An NHS clic has been acced of “transg the gay away”, as figur showed that two-thirds of children treated for genr inty issu are gay or lnched a fence of s charable stat, the LGB Alliance told a tribunal that the “greatt threat” to young gay people was treatment wh life-alterg dgs and surgery, bee profsnals nvced them they were chary argu s servic protect gay people om “homophobic” attacks, cludg some “lbians [who] are beg put unr prsure to drop their sexual boundari” and have sex wh male-bodied people who intify as is subject to legal actn alongsi the Chary Commissn by trans chary Mermaids, which says that is jt a ont for transphobia and should be stripped of s charable is the first time a chary has ever challenged the registratn of another tribunal heard that LGB Alliance is one of the only anisatns that foc solely on gay rights, amid ncern young people are beg subject to “nversn therapy” bee of “genr affirmg health re” currently beg offered on the NHS and supported by LGBT+ chari. ‘Transg the gay away’LGB Alliance believ that treatment at the NHS’s Tavistock Clic is “transg the gay away”. It argu that puberty blockers and experimental dgs are the “greatt threat” to young people Tavistock, which has been claimed to have been heavily fluenced by Mermaids, is beg closed the sprg after an NHS review found was “not safe” for hearg was told that the latt figur show that among those referred to the clic who were born male, 60 per cent were attracted to men or bisexual, while 70 per cent born female were same-sex attracted or par wh jt 17 per cent of the general populatn which do not intify as heterosexual, the judg were Redorf, reprentg the LGB Alliance, poted out that recent years there has been a 4, 400 per cent crease the number of girls beg referred to the clic and is now treatg three tim as many girls as nsequence of “transg away the gay” at the NHS Tavistock is “possible sterilisatn and loss of sexual functn of a disproportnate number of lbian children”, she Roberts, chief executive of LGBT Consortium, an umbrella body for 525 LGBT groups the UK, nied that anyone was “transg away the gay” the UK and refuted that chari were puttg out material that suggted that was “not OK to be gay” tribunal also heard suggtns om Ms Redorf that some gay people were beg discrimated agast if they refed to have sex wh someone of the oppose sex.

TAVISTOCK GENR CLIC ‘NVERTG’ GAY CHILDREN

“It is like the old days when lbians were told that they jt hadn’t met the right man yet, ” she Redorf said that there is the possibily of a “nflict” between the rights of trans people and same-sex attracted people and the latter “are entled to an anisatn that will reprent them this nflict” such as LGB Mr Roberts disagreed, allegg that the chary has been set up purely to attack trans people and claimg that their exampl of attacks on gay rights were “vented” said that a “view that says that a necsary ndn of beg a gay man is that you are a man” is a “a transphobic view of the world that ni trans people the opportuny to live as themselv.

”He also agreed that was “transphobic” to say that “a person wh a female body nnot be a gay man” or that a person born a woman “who is attracted only to men nnot be a straight man” sistg that sex was an dividual choice and no one should be erced to sexual activy, Mr Roberts said: “A trans woman who is attracted to other women would still be a lbian. ”‘Not anti-trans’In legal documents hand to the judg, Mermaids argued that LGB Alliance is “not actually tacklg problems facg lbian, gay and bisexual people, but rather is seekg to prevent the rolutn of problems facg transgenr persons” and should not have been given charable stat unr the l of chary the LGB Alliance says that their genr cril beliefs, which are protected law, are not anti-trans but pro-gay rights and that other anisatns have erred sayg that people are same genr not same-sex Chary Commissn said that s role is a “limed one” as would not get volved public disput over trans issu and was “satisfied” that LGB Alliance was pursug a charable purpose when granted chary Steele QC, reprentg the regulator, said that charable stat was a “a qutn of balancg the benefs of the purpos agast any triment and harm of the purpos” se ntu on Tuday at the First-tier Tribunal central London. He warned that many of the patients prentg as trans were often gay, on the tism spectm or sufferg om other ndns like anorexia.

And a vast proportn of children wh genr-inty ncerns grow up to be gay. Tavistock whistleblowers have pared the shed medilisatn of children to a form of gay nversn therapy. A dark joke among staff had that there would soon be ‘no gay people left’.

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A psychologist who worked at a ntroversial NHS genr transn clic for children feared they were performg ‘nversn therapy for gay kids’. A new book reveals how Dr Matt Bristow, who worked at the Tavistock Clic’s Genr Inty Development Service (Gids) for five years, raised ncerns that boys and girls who said they wanted to change sex might simply be warned gay children were ‘phed down another path’, towards transng, and that there was a ‘reluctance’ om the Gids learship to engage properly wh the doctor claimed that many heterosexual members of staff ‘jt didn’t realise’ that many genr non-nformg behavurs applied jt as much to children who grew up to be gay, lbian or bisexual as to children who would grow up to be trans.

CONTROVERSIAL TAVISTOCK CENTRE IS 'NNG A NVERSN THERAPY FOR GAY CHILDREN'

Damng review: Tavistock Tst’s service is to close (file image)Staff at the centre even joked there would be ‘no gay people left at the rate Gids was gog’, was Bristow, who was openly gay when he joed the service, said when he raised ncerns was suggted to him that homosexual staff ‘weren’t profsnally distant enough’.

‘Some clicians have relayed how there was even a dark joke the Gids team that there would be no gay people left at the rate Gids was gog.

‘”I don’t thk that all of the children were gay, by any means, ” Bristow tells me. “But there were gay children there - my view I thk there were gay children - who were beg phed down another path. ”’Dr Bristow’s views were echoed by other clicians, whose inti are not known, who took their ncerns to Sonia Appleby, the children’s safeguardg lead for the Tavistock told her they feared that the service was seeg children who saw ‘beg transgenr as a ls opprsive optn than acknowledgg they are gay.

NHS GENR CLIC ‘NNG NVERSN THERAPY FOR GAY CHILDREN’

’The book also reveals how another clician, Dr Natasha Prtt, voiced that ‘there is creasg ncern that genr affirmative therapy, if applied unthkgly, is reparative therapy agast gay dividuals, i. ’Other doctors workg at the service said they experienced some parents who ‘appeared to prefer the ia that their child was transgenr and straight than that they were gay, and were phg them towards transn. ’Psychotherapist Anastassis Spiliadis, who joed the clic 2015, said he believed homophobia was ‘everywhere’ and that there were many ‘negative ments about gay people’.

It certaly seemed that those impacted by genr dysphoria or genr-related distrs would tend to be those who might be gay or bisexual.

’Stephanie Davi-Arai, founr of Transgenr Trend: ‘Many children experiencg genr-related distrs grow up to be gay, lbian or bisexual, happy their own bodi. ‘How many of the children will grow up to regret that they were nied the chance to grow up happily gay their own medilly- undamaged bodi? A gay psychologist who worked at the NHS’s only genr transn clic for children spoke of his fears that the clic was nng “nversn therapy for gay kids” Matt Bristow said he feared the Tavistock and Portman NHS tst was ignorg the possibily that boys and girls who said they wanted to change sex might simply be gay.

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Good lotn: cy centre, another gay club (911) the nearby area and a gay iendly hostel next to stay (Inga Hotels). Controversial Tavistock centre is 'nng a nversn therapy for gay children', psychologist who worked at the NHS child genr transn clic claimsPsychologist at Tavistock tst fears clic ns 'nversn therapy for gay kids'Dr Matt Bristow fears clic is tryg to persua gay children they are transHis claim has emerged wns statements for psychotherapist Sonia ApplebyMiss Appleby is sug tst for allegedly ostracisg her after raisg ncerns Updated: 16:06 BST, 20 June 2021. The NHS's only children's genr transn clic is currently nng 'nversn therapy for gay kids' a bid to persua them that they are really trans, a gay psychologist who worked there has claimed.

Dr Matt Bristow said he feared that the Tavistock and Portman NHS tst was ignorg the possibily that boys and girls who told clicians they wanted to change their sex might simply be homosexualLast year the High Court banned the e of puberty blockers whout a urt orr givg permissn on the grounds that children unr 16 uld not give rmed nsent to such treatment, which lled 'experimental'. An appeal agast the lg the Bell se will be heard this Bristow said he was one of several gay members of staff at the clic who felt ncerned that patients' homosexualy - and the possibily that gay children were sayg they wanted to change sex bee they were beg bullied - was ignored. He told staff at the clic that they were dog 'nversn therapy for gay kids' Sunday Tim reports that an ex terview when he left the tst, which forms part of Miss Appleby's legal se, Dr Bristow said he was pecially ncerned about gay children who were referred to the service havg been bullied.

The number of children wantg to change sex has rocketed recent years, wh the number of referrals to doctors for genr treatment England among girls unr 18 risg om 40 2009 to 1, 806 2017In his ex terview, Dr Bristow told the clic that his view this may have motivated some to say they wanted to change sex and that the doctor 'tried hard not to let [them] get drawn to the service' Bristow also told the clic that gay staff felt they 'had to keep sexualy on the agenda, as otherwise was pletely ignored as a topic'. Homosexualy is legal, although a vaguely-word 2013 law prohibs the promotn of ‘non-tradnal’ relatnships.

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