The senior leadership team at GIDS desperately tries to hold the team together. One accuses the service of fast tracking young people onto puberty blockers after just one meeting with clinicians.
Whistleblowers are publicly critical of GIDS. The internal divisions at GIDS and the wider Tavistock centre spill out into the open. Polly Curtis tries to make sense of this change and goes to Blackpool which has the highest referral rate of anywhere in England. There are now two natal girls for every natal boy, a complete reversal of what it had been a decade before. But the decision in 2011 to start offering puberty blockers to under-16s, and in 2016 to widen the professionals who could refer a child to GIDS had a major impact. The numbers of people on the waiting list ticked inexorably up, until the clinic felt it could barely cope.Īs the increase in referrals to the Gender Identity Development Service increases, the profile of the young people seeking treatment changes too. “I remember our office was literally a room that had probably been a broom cupboard at one stage”, she recalls. Polly Carmichael became the director of the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock in 2009. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable. If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at /support-us.
For early and ad-free access to all our investigative series and daily and weekly shows, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts. For the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists, download the free Tortoise audio app. Why has it attracted such criticism and what is the best way going forward of treating young people with gender dysphoria? Journalist Polly Curtis has spent months trying to understand what happened. Critics of the service celebrated, its supporters were left in despair. In the summer of 2022 the NHS announced it was winding up the Gender Identity Development Service for children and young people at the Tavistock.
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