A whistleblower from the Tavistock trust expresses shock over the refusal of adult gender clinics to participate in research. The lack of co-operation was revealed in a major report commissioned by Dr Hilary Cass, who aimed to track the journeys of young people transitioning from the now-closed Gender Identity Development Service.
A Tavistock trust whistleblower said he was “shocked” that adult gender clinics had refused to take part in research.
The research could have encompassed outcomes for approximately 9,000 young people who moved from Gids into NHS adult gender dysphoria clinics. motivation and political interference, with fears the resulting “high-profile national report” could be misinterpreted or misrepresented. She said the study “follows usual NHS research practice” and was “only novel because of the sensitivity of the subject matter”.
Asked about it as her report was published on Wednesday, she told of her surprise that the adult services “weren’t keen to collaborate because I would have expected them to have a professional curiosity about what was happening in terms of long-term outcomes” for young people. “They seem to be wanting to, instead of being transparent, keeping the curtains shut so that we can’t be allowed to see what happens.NHS England has written to local NHS leaders informing them that a planned review of adult services will now become a “broader, systemic review of the operation and delivery” of gender dysphoria clinics .
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