
She drafted this, then emailed it to Carmichael for approval. Senior GIDS clinicians, including its director, Polly Carmichael, listened to Bellringer and afterwards one psychotherapist proposed writing a leaflet to forewarn parents of boys contemplating blockers. With insufficient skin for surgery, he was having to construct vaginas with stretches of bowel tissue, a more hazardous, expensive operation, prone to infection and an “unwanted smell”. Hannah Barnes is an investigations producer at Newsnight, one of the BBCs flagship television news programs, and she writes about what happened at Tavistock in her new book, Time to Think. eBook PDF Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistocks Gender Service for Chil by Amanda Dewi Limited Time Offer: Get 50 off the first year of our best annual plan for artists with unlimited uploads, releases, and insights. A specialist in creating “neo-vaginas” in adult trans women, he had noted that natal boys were being given puberty-blocking drugs so young that their penises hadn’t yet fully developed. Time to Think Light blue Hachette logo with icon and text.


In 2016, James Bellringer, an eminent consultant urologist, visited the Tavistock child gender identity development service (GIDS) to issue a warning. ‘Time to Think’ by Hannah Barnes review (Times book of the week)Įxposing the collapse of Tavistock’s gender clinic. Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHSs flagship gender service for children. Eliza and I are very excited that Hannah Barnes has agreed to join us for a live Zoom talk about her book, TIME TO THINK.
