“Those who were gay were told they were ‘too close’ to the work, and, according to one former senior clinician, anyone who spoke out was ‘made to feel hysterical’ in some way. ‘The more anxious and worried you became, the more it was framed that you weren’t really someone who could handle it.’ It was ‘a brilliant way to divert it away from what we’re actually doing, which was changing children’s bodies’, they say. It is not credible to explain away the concerns of so many experienced clinicians either by accusations of transphobia or allegations that they are simply not up to the task at hand.” HealthcareHomophobiaTransphobiaInstitutional Failure Book:Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children Source: Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children