Finally some positive news on the gender front.  The Tavistock Centre in the UK is to be shut down because they are not adequately helping the children sent there. The BBC reports

“Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has been told to shut the clinic by spring after it was criticised in an independent review.

Instead, new regional centres will be set up to “ensure the holistic needs” of patients are fully met, the NHS said.

The trust said it supported plans for a new model due to a rise in referrals.

The changes will take place after an independent review, led by Dr Hilary Cass, said the Tavistock clinic needed to be transformed.

She said the current model of care was leaving young people “at considerable risk” of poor mental health and distress, and having one clinic was not “a safe or viable long-term option”.

Challenging Gender identity is career kryptonite for mental health care professionals.  Speaking out against it carries a high social cost as transgender activists and those on board with the anti-reality transgender ideology have made the the scientific debate and conversation around the issue nearly untouchable.  The similarities to religious dogma and how heretics were punished/excommunicated is apt in this situation.  It took an independent review and court cases to shine the light on dubious practices – gender affirmation therapy for instance – and bring them into question.

“There were rising referrals and a long waiting list but at the same time some former staff were raising concerns about the way it operated.

Then, former patient Keira Bell went to court saying she had not been challenged enough about her decision at 16 to take drugs that began her transition from female to male – a decision she later regretted.

Earlier this year, Dr Cass’s report said there was a lack of understanding about why the type of patients the clinic was seeing was changing, with more female to male patients and more autistic children. Dr Cass also highlighted inconclusive evidence to back some of the clinical decision making.”

Yeah, the gender-magic has run afoul of good evidence based medical practice –

In an interim report earlier this year, Dr Cass said:

  • The service was struggling to deal with spiralling waiting lists

  • It was not keeping “routine and consistent” data on its patients

  • Health staff felt under pressure to adopt an “unquestioning affirmative approach”

  • Once patients are identified as having gender-related distress, other healthcare issues they had, such as being neurodivergent, “can sometimes be overlooked”

Most of the current psychological treatment of gender disorders has been warped by transgender ideology and activists.  Gender dysphoria is the only body morphic disorder that has a affirmative care approach.

What does this look like?  Well consider Anorexia – the idea behind most treatments is to guide the patient back to a body image that comports with reality and to dispel the illusions and misconceptions of being “fat” while in fact being severely underweight and malnourished.  Affirmative therapy would agree with the anorexic’s self diagnosis and would look for ways for them to flourish in their quest to be thin…

Gender affirmation therapy starts with the preordained conclusion that the child or person in question perception of their gender and body are correct and work toward that goal.

Ludicrous.

“Dr David Bell – not related to Keira Bell – is a former consultant psychiatrist at the Tavistock NHS Foundation Trust, where he raised concerns. He said it was a “good thing” the service was closing down.

Proper funding was needed for mental health services for children and adolescents, he said.

He told the BBC: “Some children have got the double problem of living with the wrong treatment, and the original problems weren’t addressed – with complex problems like trauma, depression, large instances of autism.”

The tide is beginning to turn against this wave anti-science, transgender ideology, and not a moment too soon.