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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Aine Fox

Open and calm debate needed on young people and trans issues, says author

The author of a book about a soon-to-close gender identity clinic for children has said she hopes the full story on how it worked can lead to “open, calmer debate” on transgender issues.

It was announced in July that the clinic at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust would be shutting down, with two services led by specialist children’s hospitals in London and the north west due to be established by spring this year.

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