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janterry

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Tue Nov 23, 2021, 07:21 AM Nov 2021

Girls who don't like dolls are treated as transgender, claims Tavistock clinic whistleblower [View all]


Dr David Bell said that those “unwilling or unable to conform to gender stereotypes” are “misunderstood” as being transgender

Dr David Bell, a former governor at the gender identity NHS trust, said that under the influence of political lobby groups such as Stonewall, clinicians believe that the “only acceptable explanation” for a range of complex issues is that a young person is transgender.

The consultant psychiatrist described his former employer, the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, as a “gateway to puberty blockers”, which put children and young people on the path of a lifetime of medical treatment. Around 98 per cent of teenagers who were put on to puberty blockers went on to take cross sex hormones, he added.

Dr Bell said that rapid progression to drugs and even surgery in the NHS was “a form of conversion therapy” as with “proper” treatment, many of the children would go on to be gay or lesbian.

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In recent years, the number of girls being referred has increased dramatically. Last year 1,512 females were referred, compared to 704 males. In both sexes, children as young as three were sent to the service.
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He said that as he was preparing the 2018 report into the Tavistock, around a quarter of all clinicians working in the London clinic contacted him to express “deep concern” about the treatment and some “were no longer sleeping because they felt that they were unwillingly being complicit in doing harm to children”.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/girls-dont-dolls-treated-transgender-171030304.html
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