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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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Time to Think

By: Hannah Barnes
Narrated by: Hannah Barnes
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 UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTER

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

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The detailed research of events that took place at Tavistock GIDS from a purely investigative journalistic standpoint. This is a must read for any individual where child safeguarding is a requirement of their job

A safeguarding must read!

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I am very impress with your work and the result. You’ve dealt with that subject with so much sensitivity and honesty. Somehow you’ve managed to lay down this complex multi generational story and we now understand how it came to this. Amazing job!

Great journalist work

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The author has laid out a very well reasoned and evidenced argument and the book, narration and information are among the best I’ve heard.

The material itself should be listened to by anyone who has an interest in the Trans conversation. Having listened to the travesty of immoral practices conducted across the US by supposed medical professionals it’s reassuring to hear that such lunacy will never happen again in the UK.

There are some demons in the story but this book is not a witch hunt with an agenda. Rather it simply presents the facts and the truth - something that has so far been missed from any of these conversations.

A very sad story excellently told

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This felt balanced and incredibly well researched. It is a compassionate and careful account of a story that is still unfolding. The end analysis was really enlightening too.

Fascinating and insightful

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Read excellently. A must-read in order to understand the reality behind what happened. The audiobook also has the updated material. Thank you HB for writing this! I cannot believe the public aren’t more versed after such shocking revelations. If they knew, there would be no equivocating about the harms and the negligence.

Compelling, necessary, crucial!!

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