Hannah Barnes, the award-winning journalist of the BBC's Newsnight, a prominent current affairs program, and a great specialist in dubious and often tragic gender reassignment interventions for young people with gender problems, has now written a book about the gender reassignment procedures of London doctors.

He has already shared dozens of investigative reports and information that contributed to the British National Health Service (NHS) launching a comprehensive review of gender reassignment clinics, and also brought to the surface evidence that was later used in several court proceedings,

among others, parents whose children had irreversible changes caused by gender reassignment clinics and who were lied to about it.

Now Barnes went even further and with sufficient courage wrote a book about the gender reassignment procedures of the London clinic managers and doctors, about those hasty, thoughtless, and in one case life-threatening hormone treatments and gender reassignment surgeries that irreversibly changed the lives of children and teenagers.

Hannah Barnes' new 557-page book ("Time to Think" - "It's time to think") finally sheds light on, as Le Figaro writes, "one of the biggest medical scandals of recent decades" by Hannah Barnes.

Barnes shares several accounts and stories in his book, such as the story of a mother whose obsessive-compulsive son left his room only to take a shower, repeating this five times a day. After a consultation at London's Tavistock Clinic, the teenager was immediately diagnosed as female by specialists "just by looking at her" and was then referred to an endocrinologist (hormone specialist) to begin the gender reassignment process. The boy refused treatment and it was later revealed that he was actually homosexual.

The Tavistock Clinic

The state clinic, which opened in 1989, was originally intended as a therapy center for young people who, entering adolescence, have questions about their sexual or gender identity. In his book, Barnes shows, among other things, that several of the workers at the clinic were already concerned in 2005 that many of their patients, as in the example cited above, were immediately referred to endocrinologists, who ended up prescribing hormone blockers to delay puberty.

These drugs were originally recommended for people over the age of 16, but according to Barnes, a 12-year-old boy was treated with this drug in 2011 and a 10-year-old boy in 2016 at the Tavistock Clinic. Barnes also points out that these are not isolated cases, on the contrary,

in ten years, the number of patients treated at the Tavistock clinic has increased continuously: from 97 in 2010 to more than 2,500 in 2020 (this is an increase of more than two thousand percent!).

As a result, more than 1,000 children have been prescribed these hormone blockers, many of whom then undergo hormone treatment before full gender reassignment surgery. So what started as an exception has become the main direction of the clinic. Shockingly, the doctors of the clinic prescribed this treatment after only two consultations, without any checks or even consultation with other specialists. They officially told the parents that the effects were completely reversible, while later it turned out that this was not the case at all, they lied to the parents in Hungarian.

Depression, sexual disorders, osteoporosis (deterioration of bone tissue), interrupted or disrupted growth... - the list of disorders caused by such treatments given to children is chilling, Barnes writes in his book. But even worse, a group of young people has become especially vulnerable: the patients of the Tavistock Clinic more than a third suffered from an autism spectrum disorder - and according to UN statistics, one in every 160 people around the world is affected by this disorder.

The abuses were committed under the pressure of gender ideology

According to Barnes, the children's illness was clearly abused, and based on the practice of the clinic, several startling conclusions can be drawn. One of these is that the professionals running the clinic were inexperienced and careless about their work.

But the role of those non-governmental, civil organizations, who, using the clinic, waged a war in the name of gender identity ideology under the pretext of helping children with problems due to changes in their identity or body during adolescence, is even worse than this.

And these ideologies are fueled by frivolous and delusional theories about gender, according to Barnes.

"Le Figaro" hastens to point out that Hannah Barnes' investigative book aims first of all to expose a medical scandal and in no way can be considered a manifesto against transgender or transsexual people - as the book's attackers are quick to state.

As they put it, "this book irrevocably casts a new light on the debate that has been moving our societies for many months about whether it is 'transphobia' if we dare to criticize or even question the above-mentioned treatments and their widespread spread".

There is no doubt that in her book, the journalist also gives space to people who were seriously helped by the changes. However, these confessions do not obscure the point, precisely that it is a matter of political exploitation of a psychiatric illness that afflicts a part of the population, in such a way that the treatment of the illness is applied to as many people as possible, thereby serving extreme identity politics or even dirty financial interests (the costs of an intervention can range from 20,000 euros to hundreds of thousands of euros).

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