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Time to Think

The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING

'This is what journalism is for' - Observer

Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS's flagship gender service for children.

The Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) was set up initially to provide talking therapies to young people who were questioning their gender identity.

But in the last decade GIDS referred around two thousand children, some as young as nine years old, for medication to block their puberty. In the same period, the number of referrals exploded and the profile of the patients changed: from largely pre-pubescent boys to mostly adolescent girls, who were often contending with other difficulties. Was there enough clinical evidence to justify such profound medical interventions?

This urgent, scrupulous and dramatic book explains how GIDS has been the site of a serious medical scandal, in which ideological concerns took priority over clinical practice. It is a disturbing and gripping parable for our times.©2023 Hannah Barnes (P)2023 Swift Press Audio Gender Studies Social Sciences Thought-Provoking
Thorough Investigation • Balanced Perspective • Personable Narration • Clear Presentation • Important Documentation
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If you care about trans kids and if you want what’s best for them, then you will not regret reading this book.

A must read for anyone who cares about trans kids.

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The book is phenomenal.
It provides a coherent timeline of events, interviewed a wide range of viewpoints which it presents for the reader to evaluate and covers evolving science in a straight-forward, easy to understand manner.
And yet it's troubling and scary. The lack of accountability, oversight and bullying to keep people quiet by special interest groups and top staff should give anyone pause about the state of medical care, especially for children.
The Savior nature of some staff who prescribed hormones for kids quickly and eagerly without proper evaluation of other factors that might have made children uncomfortable in their bodies is scandalous.
Kudos to the author and those who tried to speak up, even at risk to their careers.

Troubling

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This is not just happening in trans medicine. The social justice/Marxist influence corrupts all of the West's institutions. GIDS is just the poster child for an otherwise well-meaning institutions made dangerous by the left.

Everyone read this!!!

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Despite being such a long book with a narrow topic I was completely enthralled. There is so much I could say about the content but I will just say thank you, thank you for putting this together and thank you for reading it yourself, I really like it when journalistic authors read their own work and you have a beautiful voice.

Thank you for writing this.

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The author is a careful, and thorough journalist. She chronicles the rise and fall of the GIDS clinic. She interviews those on all sides of the transgender debate and leaves it to the reader to draw their own conclusions.

The deceptiveness of transgender ideology revealed.

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I work as a mechanic and listened to the book while working occasionally tears would come to my eyes due to how these children who are and were struggling needs were not met. I feel that the book gives me better clarity when it comes to my children.

Well written.

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My son recommended this book to me after we had both listened to The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling. Hannah Barnes detailed investigation into the Tavistock is enthralling and disturbing as one realizes how even great institutions can lose their objectivity when money, their survival and to some degree power are on the line and stop protecting the most vulnerable in our society. She works very hard throughout her investigation to be objective, to offer all sides of the story and to stay as factual as possible. Her writing is excellent and I personally could not stop listening and of course had many interesting conversations with my son.

Stunning and Disturbing

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This book provides a detailed, fact-based history of what exactly happened at the UK’s gender clinic. It is unbiased in its approach and the information revealed is critical to understanding the current social contagion (especially among young girls) of transgenderism.

This is a must-read

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Hannah offers us a window i to GIDS at the Tavistock, through the eyes of clinicians, patients, parents and safeguarding professionals. It’s a compelling read: detailed, compassionate, heartbreaking at times. It’s also utterly damning to medical professionals who have failed ethically through overcommitment, ideological capture and greed. This needs to be read widely — detransitioners are not the only ones who will have serious regrets.

Earnest, Compassionate, yet Devastating Documentary

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As a transgender American, this was really quite an interesting and compelling listen. There’s a lot to be ashamed of in this story — from the medical negligence and malpractice, from the failure to build what could’ve been such an important data base, from the misalignment of politics and healthcare — but it really is a story worth hearing and, hopefully, learning from. I thought the language delicacy often required in these kinds of dialogues was well-executed by the author and her balance between clarity, respect (for both individuals and the record), and genuine inquisitiveness at the situation helped make for a very personable narration. The actual narrator was great too, I couldn’t pause this one.

A story worth listening to

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