ned about gay children who were referred to the service having been bullied. This may have motivated some to say they wanted to change sex and that he “tried hard not to let [them] get drawn into the service”.
Bristow told the clinic that gay staff felt they “had to keep sexuality on the agenda, as otherwise it was completely ignored as a topic”. He said there was a group of gay clinicians with these worries and that four had left at the time of his exit interview.
Despite the loudly proclaimed concerns by groups like Stonewall that conversion therapy is a threat to lesbian, gay, bi and trans people alike, this is the real scandal: convincing troubled young people, who'd very likely develop as perfectly healthy lesbians or gays if left alone, that they're somehow born into the wrong body and require puberty blockers and all kinds of serious medical interventions as the only route to happiness. This is conversion therapy – in the name of gender ideology.
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