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“As well as personal vindication for Appleby, the employment tribunal proceedings again highlighted how, rather than tackle the safeguarding concerns being raised about GIDS, the Tavistock Trust had instead attempted to penalize the person raising them. Appleby described a ‘full blown organizational assault’ against her in response to the concerns she had raised.”
― Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
― Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
“Speaking to BBC Newsnight in 2020, Taylor was explicit. ‘If you try to set out to please or comply with someone, whether you’re a parent or a clinician, then you won’t be helping them.’ It is vital for clinicians to keep an independent perspective, he added.”
― Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
― Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
“The pioneers of the Dutch protocol were well aware that the pathway they had devised – puberty blockers, followed by cross-sex hormones and surgery – would not work for all. They acknowledged that by lowering the age at which puberty was blocked, it might ‘increase the incidence of “false positives”.’ It is this group, the group for whom this pathway will not be of benefit, say Hutchinson and others, that has been ignored by gender clinics across the Western world, including GIDS.”
― Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
― Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
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