Episode 155: Hannah Barnes On The Collapse Of One Of The Most Important Youth Gender Clinics In The World
Episode 155: Hannah Barnes On The Collapse Of One Of The Most Important Youth Gender Clinics In The World
This is probably a preview of things to come in the United States
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While Katie is stranded somewhere in flyover country, buried under 15 feet of snow inside her van with her wife and dog, Jesse interviews Hannah Barnes, the author of Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children. Consider this foreshadowing for what is likely to happen in the States.
Barnes’ book
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Think-Collapse-Tavistocks-Children-ebook/dp/B0BCL1T2XN
Tavistock gender clinic gets shut down
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62335665
Singal’s very nerdy work on DSM criteria
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.
Tavistock puberty blocker study published after nine years
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55282113
Jamie Reed’s sworn affidavit
Jesse explains how self-reported studies are quite weak
Cass interim report
https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-report/
The UK’s new guidelines
Mermaids is controversial!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/17/mermaids-why-has-the-trans-charity-been-in-the-news
BBC: Children's gender identity clinic concerns go back 15 years
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54374165
Tavistock trust whistleblower David Bell: ‘I believed I was doing the right thing’
Image: LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 29: A general view outside The Tavistock Centre on July 29, 2022 in London, England. The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic at Tavistock and Portman NHS foundation trust in North London is the UK's only dedicated gender identity clinic for children and young people. It is set to close after an independent review criticised its services. (Photo by Guy Smallman?Getty Images)
Episode 155: Hannah Barnes On The Collapse Of One Of The Most Important Youth Gender Clinics In The World
Jesse says at the end of the interview that once the right wing came in hard against this stuff it became a huge culture war.
I think that prior to a couple years ago conservatives were not engaged much on this issue, but it was a simmering culture war within liberal spaces. And the trans activists were mopping the floor with us. We were effectively silenced. I was afraid of talking about this IRL with the local political groups I was a part of.
I have been commenting mildly and politely and anonymously on trans articles in NYT and WAPO since 2013. I have had TRA's calling me a murderer, terrorist and Terf for years. I have been told ( in comments only, thank God) to suck their lady dick.
The only opponents to the trans ideology I knew of were politically moderate feminist people like myself.
So you had one side saying "Hey, lets look at this issue with some nuance" and the other side saying "That is literal violence you cunts!"
The small, mean part of me doesn't mind that the TRA's are getting forceful pushback in the same style they have employed for years.
I continue to be impressed by how nuanced and kind Jesse’s work on this subject has been. After the abuse he’s received from trans activists on Twitter it would have been easy for him to ACTUALLY become anti-trans. I respect him for never misgendering anyone or really being unkind to anyone at any point. He has more integrity than most, myself included.