Why read Time to Think?

Book cover of Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING

'This is what journalism is for' - Observer

Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS's flagship gender service for children.

The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), based…

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Simon Edge

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As anyone who has read my satires will know, I’m hugely concerned by the rise of extreme gender ideology with its impact on vulnerable children.

Hannah Barnes’ calm, readable, but ultimately devastating book chronicles the medical scandal that led to the closure of the UK’s only child gender clinic. She based the book on more than 100 hours of interviews with clinicians and former patients, revealing that an institution set up to provide talking therapies now almost entirely spurned those therapies in a rush to medicalise confused children.

In the future, when people want to know how this madness was…

From Simon's 3 favorite reads in 2023.