Tavistock To Be Sued By 1,000 Families
The Tavistock gender clinic is facing mass legal action from youngsters who claim they were rushed into taking life-altering puberty blockers. The Times has more.
Lawyers expect about 1,000 families to join a medical negligence lawsuit alleging vulnerable children have been misdiagnosed and placed on a damaging medical pathway.
They are accusing the gender identity development service [GIDS] at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust of multiple failures in its duty of care.
This includes allegations it recklessly prescribed puberty blockers with harmful side effects and adopted an “unquestioning, affirmative approach” to children identifying as transgender.
Last month NHS England announced it was shutting the Tavistock clinic over safety concerns following a damning external review. Care will be handed to regional children’s hospitals.
The law firm Pogust Goodhead has since announced it is pursuing a group litigation order against the trust, which has treated 19,000 children with gender dysphoria (the feeling that one’s emotional and psychological identity differs from one’s birth sex) since 1989.
Former patients given puberty blockers are joining the “class action” lawsuit and papers are due to be lodged at the High Court within six months.
Tom Goodhead, chief executive of Pogust Goodhead, told the Times: “Children and young adolescents were rushed into treatment without the appropriate therapy and involvement of the right clinicians, meaning that they were misdiagnosed and started on a treatment pathway that was not right for them.
“These children have suffered life-changing and, in some cases, irreversible effects of the treatment they received… We anticipate that at least 1,000 clients will join this action.”
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This isn’t negligence this is GBH and the perpetrators of this Maoist self-indulgent gender agenda bender need prison time.
Couldn’t agree more but, if you look at the sign for the clinic, you might notice in the top right hand corner, that it says NHS… and it is the NHS>government>us that will be sued.
I’ll bet you £10 to our favourite charities that none of the clinicians will be struck off or pay a penny, as the NHS blob closes ranks around them an utters platitudes that ‘lessons will be learned’.
The people responsible know this, and know that they can act with impunity, it’s why they were confident enough to put these poor kids on the path that they did.
I cannot, in all honesty, express how vile I find these people, though having just paid a fiver so that I can rant about it, you might guess!
C-words, the lot of them… which, I suppose, is a bit ironic, when you think about it…
“Couldn’t agree more but, if you look at the sign for the clinic, you might notice in the top right hand corner, that it says NHS… and it is the NHS>government>us that will be sued.”
Ooh look, NHS “heroes”!
“C”owards indeed.
I don’t doubt that the victims of Tavistock deserve their day in court, and quite possibly large compensation pay outs. However the total compensation bill could run into hundreds of millions of pounds, and ultimately it’s us as tax payers who will have to foot the bill. It’s a shame that woke charities such as Stonewall can’t be sued to reclaim some of this money.
As I already wrote in another comment: The idea that people have an existence independent of their possibly wrong bodies is nothing but the Christian concept of the worldy body which must thus perish and the immortal soul which came from and ends up with God, repackaged. If people want to believe in this, that’s their prerogative. But they certainly should be allowed to proselytize in schools and nurserys.
I suspect you missed out a “not” in your last sentence. Interesting parallel with Christian belief in souls separate from bodies because someone else I was reading recently, Malcolm Kendrick, was pointing out how very medieval and superstitious the origins of belief in vaccines is. There is a general/widespread tendency for retrogressive thinking at the moment. Climate change fears ( punishment and repentance ) included.
PS. John Carter at Barsoom substack has just written an awesome three parter ( of 4 ) on the Roman origins of the Jesus Christ gospel stories. Fascinating stuff.
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-gospel-of-mark-antony-1-the-jesus
Thanks.
Christian (or Jewish or atheist) schools (or indeed homeschooling) should be allowed giving an education compatible with these various beliefs. Bringing up children according to one’s beliefs is not necessarily brainwashing and is, by the way a fundamental liberty. . What I object to is state schools teaching political and philosophical beliefs as the undisputed truth (I also object to parents sending their children to private schools effectively paying two or three times over for their education).
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The point was supposed to be: Did anyone consciously send his children to school to have them educated in the religion of transsexualism and when did that become the state religion, anyway?
As someone thankfully pointed out: This should have been shouldn’t be allowed.
Gender dysphoria, as far as I can see, is a made up concept with no biological evidence of any kind to support its existence.
I would stay away from any doctor that considers gender dysphoria a real thing. Clearly they’ve lost the ability to distinguish between what is real and what isn’t within what is supposed to be their own area of expertise and so are completely unreliable.
Or, they’re spineless and are prepared to go along with something that they don’t believe in, in which case, they can’t be trusted because what else are they going along with just to save their own professional arses?
That’s true for all so-called mental illnesses. But our knowledge of much of the function of the body is much too limited to rule something out just because we don’t know about it. That’s not the issue, anyway. The issue is the claim that chirugically mutilating a healthy body into a biologically (partially) dysfunctional one is supposed to be regarded as cure of something. Instead of telling the people that they can believe to be or want to be whatever they want but that’ve got only one body and that it’s better for them is this one body isn’t uselessly damaged at an early age.
I don’t agree that making conditions up is not the issue.
Allowing people to imagine medical conditions is the precursor to the inventing and promoting harmful treatments.
If you’re going to resist the pressure of treating imaginary conditions, why not address the root of the problem and resist the pressure to accept conditions that aren’t real?
Assuming you All just hypochonders! theory was true, this would be harmless in itself. But chirugical mutilation of generally healthy bodies to make them superficially look in a different way isn’t. Regardless of the actual or perceived reasons for that.
I agree that bodily mutilation is the immediate issue to be addressed as it is irrevocable, but I’m not sure encouraging people to believe they were “born in the wrong body” is much better. Acceptance of things you can’t change is pretty much fundamental to true happiness, and God knows us humans are terrible at that at it is without going to even more extremes.
The notion that people can be born in the wrong body is either an absurdity or a religious conviction. But that’s a tangential point here: If the proverbial consenting adults want to undertake such a procedure because they firmly believe it will help them, there’s no reason to stop them from that, even despite it would abstractly make more sense to come to terms with an inevitable reality.
I’d be surprised if it stopped at 1,000
Isn’t this marvellous news for TPTB? A story that can run and run and all the while they can get on with further enslaving the population.
Bittersweet this news. Let’s hope those responsible for this travesty are held to account (I won’t hold my breath) but let’s be honest, the costs of defending the indefensible plus any compensation awarded is coming out of taxpayers pockets.
Well, in that case thank heavens for the recent increase in National Insurance to help fund our ‘wonderful NHS’
How would your average wokester assimilate this into their mainframe?
So it’s not just the Jab doctors who are willing to risk maiming young healthy people ! The more we find out about these fools the less we know, “First do no Harm” seems to have gone out the window long before Covid ! Bastards!! Mengele would be so proud 🤯
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“A 1000 families” … And all the time the Tavistock and others will be using these figures to “prove” how real the problem is and just how many people need their services.
Little chance of those responsible for this outrage being suitably punished. The public sector is practiced in circling their wagons.