Time to Think

The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children

De: Hannah Barnes

Narrado por: Hannah Barnes

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

A must read for anyone who cares about trans kids.

If you care about trans kids and if you want what’s best for them, then you will not regret reading this book.

Troubling

The book is phenomenal.
It provides a coherent timeline of events, interviewed a wide range of viewpoints which it presents for the reader to evaluate and covers evolving science in a straight-forward, easy to understand manner.
And yet it's troubling and scary. The lack of accountability, oversight and bullying to keep people quiet by special interest groups and top staff should give anyone pause about the state of medical care, especially for children.
The Savior nature of some staff who prescribed hormones for kids quickly and eagerly without proper evaluation of other factors that might have made children uncomfortable in their bodies is scandalous.
Kudos to the author and those who tried to speak up, even at risk to their careers.

Everyone read this!!!

This is not just happening in trans medicine. The social justice/Marxist influence corrupts all of the West's institutions. GIDS is just the poster child for an otherwise well-meaning institutions made dangerous by the left.

Thank you for writing this.

Despite being such a long book with a narrow topic I was completely enthralled. There is so much I could say about the content but I will just say thank you, thank you for putting this together and thank you for reading it yourself, I really like it when journalistic authors read their own work and you have a beautiful voice.

The deceptiveness of transgender ideology revealed.

The author is a careful, and thorough journalist. She chronicles the rise and fall of the GIDS clinic. She interviews those on all sides of the transgender debate and leaves it to the reader to draw their own conclusions.

Compassionate and Thorough

I’ve been keeping up with the books published on this topic, and this is my favorite to date. The deep respect, compassion, and concern for the trans community is palpable. At the same time, the author is able to bring attention to just how horrific the situation is by letting clinicians and patients stories speak for themselves.

The health and well-being of these young people is certainly the fundamental concern of this book. At the same time, Barnes is able to articulate the mechanism by which this was able to get so out of control:

Labeling all scrutiny as “transphobia” shuts down vital opportunities to improve the lives of these children and trans individuals in general. Failure to recognize that transition isn’t a panacea promotes a denial of reality that needlessly alienates the very people best qualified to improve outcomes. The “trans rights” hysteria that we try to pass for public discourse is a perfect example of how our cultural and political institutions are failing society by weaponizing ideology rather than providing a platform for cultural maturation. This is true across the political spectrum, so it’s a relief to find an analysis on this situation that focuses on the lack of open discussion rather than virtue-signaling a specific tribe.

This is an important read no matter how you feel about gender transition.

How thorough this is

Amazing book if a bit long. Very thorough work on an exceptionally complicated topic. Well balanced.

Well written.

I work as a mechanic and listened to the book while working occasionally tears would come to my eyes due to how these children who are and were struggling needs were not met. I feel that the book gives me better clarity when it comes to my children.

Stunning and Disturbing

My son recommended this book to me after we had both listened to The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling. Hannah Barnes detailed investigation into the Tavistock is enthralling and disturbing as one realizes how even great institutions can lose their objectivity when money, their survival and to some degree power are on the line and stop protecting the most vulnerable in our society. She works very hard throughout her investigation to be objective, to offer all sides of the story and to stay as factual as possible. Her writing is excellent and I personally could not stop listening and of course had many interesting conversations with my son.

Devastating

In ten years when we look back, this book will stand out as beginning the process of exposing an inhuman medical experiment enacted on children due to a moment of cultural insanity as absurd as the Salem witch trials or 20th Century eugenics.