CV NEWS FEED // Nearly 400 children between the ages of three and six were sent to the United Kingdom’s (UK) now shuttered taxpayer-funded Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), reports show.
Of this group, 73 children referred to the disgraced facility were reported to be three or four years of age.
“The GIDS clinic, run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in north London since 1989, had no lower age limit on referrals,” the UK-based Daily Mail indicated Tuesday:
Statistics produced by the trust show the astonishing growth in numbers of young people seen there over the past decade, from 136 in 2010-11 to 3,585 in 2021-22.
Further details show that 12 three-year-olds were referred to the clinic over that period, along with 61 four-year-olds, 140 five-year-olds and 169 six-year-olds.
As CatholicVote previously reported, Tavistock ran “an infamous facility that gave so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ to minors until it was shut down by Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) last year.”
“The disgraced Tavistock children’s gender clinic was seeing kids as young as THREE,” Women’s Forum Australia CEO Rachael Wong wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday.
“This is on the clinic and it’s on the activists, but where were the parents in all this?” Wong continued:
The notion of gender identities is unintelligible to a 3-year-old.
Someone has projected this onto them.
Someone also brought them to the clinic.
Parents, PLEASE wake up for the sake of your children.
“I’ve no faith left in the British system,” commented former British politician James Wells (known professionally as James Freeman). “Why should I when this is allowed to happen?”
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The practices of Tavistock’s GIDS have been thoroughly rebuked across the political spectrum. In fact, the operation was even criticized in The Guardian, a British newspaper that usually defends the “transgender” movement.
In a February op-ed that appeared in the left-wing publication, Rachel Cooke wrote favorably of the BBC’s Hannah Barnes’ exposé on the facility, “Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children.”
“Such a book cannot easily be dismissed,” Cooke stated:
To do so, a person would not only have to be wilfully ignorant, they would also – to use the popular language of the day – need to be appallingly unkind. This is the story of the hurt caused to potentially hundreds of children since 2011, and perhaps before that.
Cooke added that Barnes’ journalistic account, which was based on interviews with dozens of former Tavistock employees, “feels like some dystopian novel.”
“But it isn’t, of course,” she noted. “It really happened, and she has worked bravely and unstintingly to expose it. This is what journalism is for.”
CatholicVote noted in September that the UK’s “closing of Tavistock was part of an ongoing trend of European countries taking steps to restrict so-called ‘gender-affirming’ procedures being performed on children.”
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