Hannah Barnesis an award-winning journalist at the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme Newsnight. She led its coverage of the care available to young people experiencing gender-related distress, which helped precipitate an extensive NHS review and unearthed evidence that was later used in several sets of legal proceedings. Newsnight’s reporting also led directly to an inspection by the healthcare regulator the Care Quality Commission, which branded the NHS’s only youth gender clinic in England ‘Inadequate.’ The management team of the clinic was disbanded as a result and the work was nominated for an array journalism awards, including the prestigious RTS Television Journalism Awards. FiLiA: Yeah, that was a line that actually I wrote down because I thought it was such a striking line from one who's working within the medical sphere to even be contemplating it like that. Because obviously from an outsider's perspective, you want to just be able to say, well, of course, you're always going to put the patients first. This shouldn't even be a question. But then it comes to those sorts of human factors and the relationships. I think you at one point characterise the feeling of being within GIDS as being almost like a start-up. The book charts the course of concerns being raise about the service. This started in 2005 with an internal review. There were then recommendations that the number of people who could be seen be capped in 2014. After that in 2018 the Bell Report was written that deemed GIDS ‘not fit for purpose’. In 2021 the Care Quality Commision (CQC) rated GIDS as ‘Inadequate’, the lowest rating. Finally GIDS was closed in 2022 and that regional centres in children’s hospitals would be used that emphasized mental health more.

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What is most inexcusable in this story is the fact that the failures of the early days of the service have simply been repeated down the years. The GIDS not only failed to take account of its own data, learn from it and put in place structures to ensure a safe service for children, it doubled down, allowing pressure from activists to dictate. The service became increasingly ideological, not less.Barnes mixes the stories of people working at GIDS with stories of children who have been through the clinic. There are some de-transitioners and some who had issues with the clinic. Dr Anna Hutchinson is a clinical psychologist who has specialised in adolescent mental health and embodied distress over many years. She was a senior psychologist in the GIDS service between 2013 and 2017 and her concerns relating to the clinical practice she witnessed there formed a key part of the narrative in “Time to Think”. LOCATION

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MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window)Many children referred to the service had suffered trauma, had mental health problems or had experienced ‘deprived or injurious upbringings.’” This book is a testament to the moral courage of Hutchinson and colleagues who sought to expose the chaos and insanity they saw while practising by stealth the in-depth therapy they believed young people deserved … And Hannah Barnes has honoured them with her dogged, irreproachable yet gripping account’ – The Times Clinicians Paul Moran and Donal O’Shea have helped hundreds of people transition successfully. “For people who are ready, have a clear, stable understanding of their gender, social supports, and are physically and mentally healthy, I see it as a fantastic thing,” Moran is quoted as saying.

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Waterstones has said “there is no truth” in claims that some of its shops were refusing to sell copies of two books by gender-critical feminists. Edit: to those saying the book is based on first hand experiences. The book interviews four people. Just four out of the thousands and thousands successfully treated. Do we base the success of a place on four people or the many thousands? about 70 per cent of the sample had more than five ‘associated features’ – a long list that includes those already mentioned as well as physical abuse, anxiety, school attendance issues and many more”It is stressed repeatedly throughout the book that many senior clinicians who desperately tried to raise concerns with management and executive members were not only being repeatedly ignored or silenced, but were also very often - if subtly - being told their view was wrong and if they couldn’t get on board with what GIDS was doing, perhaps they should look for another job. The book is not transphobic. At no point does Barnes question that many people are happier being trans and that those people should be treated well. It was only when the first referrals were old enough to have their care transferred to the adult service at St Colmcille’s Hospital in Loughlinstown that concerns were raised.