A doctor with a key role in reforming a controversial gender identity clinic for children has been recorded questioning the need for change
A senior doctor has been recorded questioning why changes to the controversial Tavistock clinic are needed..
However, BBC Newsnight has learned Prof Butler - the current service's most senior doctor - has publicly questioned the need for change and described Dr Cass's recommendations as "slightly unusual". Speaking about the new proposals, he said instead of expanding gender care, "they've almost contracted it".
Gids will now remain open until at least March 2024. Meanwhile, there are more than 8,000 young people currently waiting for care. "They push the drugs on you so early on," Em, a 19-year-old trans man, who has identified as male since early childhood, told Newsnight. Em says he was offered medication during his second appointment, adding: "I was 11."
He stopped taking puberty blockers in 2019 and hasn't chosen to take hormones to masculinise his body. Since being discharged in 2020, neither Gids nor UCLH has been in touch with Em. In a statement, the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust said it had reviewed Newsnight's claims, adding that they "do not align with the evidence we have", though it declined to give specifics about that evidence.
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