Mail: Parents of three-year-olds 'took their children to NHS Tavistock clinic claiming they were trans when they just wanted a child of a different sex', psychiatrist says

[ResisterRex]

Article in the Mail on views and experiences of GIDS from a former psychiatrist who worked there until 2012. Referrals only increased after that time, as is documented.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11342541/Dr-Az-Hakeem-says-parents-claimed-kids-trans-NHS-Tavistock-transing-factory-clinic.html

"Parents of children as young as three were fabricating stories that their toddlers were transgender, a former psychiatrist at the Tavistock child gender clinic claims.

Dr Az Hakeem worked at the controversial NHS clinic for 12 years until 2012 and said he expressed concerns the procedures followed by staff 'were mad', describing Tavistock as a 'transing factory'."

@ResisterRex would you mind share the thread link please? Or the title? 🙏

I'm not Rex, but I got here first, so there. www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4660470-to-think-that-transing-young-children-is-a-medical-scandal?page=10

Ha! Sorry was doing chores! Glad you got there

Ah! Thanks to you both then 🤗

This. It's fucking terrifying.

If you look at the about us section of the new NHS gender clinic in Manchester, you might come up with a hypothesis.

The service is the culmination of several years of work to develop an improved model of care, which is local, timely, and easier to access.

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We know that trans and non-binary people are the experts of their own experience, and that is why this service has been developed by and for trans communities. Our services are trans and non-binary led, with trans and non-binary people guiding and feeding into them at all levels.
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A team of care navigators with lived experience works with people who access our services to help them to get the most out of the service and enable them to connect with local organisations

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...

If these kids are being seen aged 4 or 5, how old were they when they were referred? The Mail article reads like they were actually seen in clinic, and we are forever being told the waiting list is 2 years or thereabouts? Are these the babies who expressed their transgender identity by unsnapping their onesies, or pulling out their hair clips? Or maybe they knew they were trans in the womb, because isn’t that a thing now? www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11280475/amp/Harvard-hospital-claims-babies-know-WOMB-transgender.html

'gender disappointment' is a complicated and very human emotion. Strong feelings and thoughts about having children are inevitable, and lots of things may stir up emotions unexpectedly as parents. There's never anything wrong with feelings or emotions; only with actions.

Sorry for telling you about the thread and not posting the link! Was on my way out the door.

It has got a lot of replies. Inc a couple from a poster whose child's school was really pushing her to socially transition them. Horrifying.

So selfish to try to force your kids to fit into your ideal of what they should be. Just let them be themselves. But to take it another step and start destroying their bodies to reach your end goal… That is really sad…