Britain’s biggest gender identity clinic has closed

The Gender Identity and Development Service (also known as GIDS) at London’s NHS Tavistock and Portman finally closed for good on Sunday. The health service insists that new regional hubs in London and Liverpool will be ready to open on April 1, but experts are still concerned about continuity of care for vulnerable children. Once the world’s largest gender identity clinic for children, the Tavistock was ordered to close in July 2022 after a report from Dr Hillary Cass found the current service “unsustainable” and called for a “fundamentally different” model. The original plan to replace it with two regional hubs has already been delayed by more than a year.