![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This ambiguity seems to be a fatal flaw in the service as clinicians operated from different theoretical perspectives. Whether GIDS operated within the framework of gender identity theory or a more developmental understanding of gender dysphoria never seemed to be properly clarified. The story begins in 1989 when a psychoanalyst called Dr Domenico di Ceglie became convinced there was a need for a clinic that focused on gender identity issues in children. This account of medical misadventure happening within plain sight at the Gender Identity Development Services (GIDS) in the Tavistock and Portman Trust in London demonstrates in explicit detail how none of this happened behind closed doors indeed concerns were raised and a litany of reports made recommendations about GIDS from 2005. When journalist Hannah Barnes carried out an exposé on the Tavistock for Newsnight in 2019, she was so shocked at what was uncovered that she took time out from working at the BBC to write her book, Time To Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children. ![]()
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