NHS services treat girls who "don't like pink ribbons and dollies" as if they have been born in the wrong body, a Tavistock whistleblower has warned.
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 are put onto puberty blockers go on to take cross sex hormones, he added
Dr Bell said that rapid progression to drugs and even surgery in the NHS is “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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He told a conference organised by Genspect, a parental support group for those concerned about the treatment that their children are receiving, that those “unwilling or unable to conform to gender stereotypes” are “misunderstood” as being transgender.
Medical intervention is therefore supporting a “rigid, binary construction of gender”, he said, warning that the view was that “if you don’t like pink ribbons and dollies you are not really a girl”.
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