In 2019, after some staff at the Tavistock raised concerns that children were being fast-tracked to transition, an internal review passed to Newsnight, the BBC’s flagship investigative programme, concluded that parents who preferred their child to be trans and straight, rather than ‘cis’ and gay, played a significant role in some referrals. Two clinicians said there was a dark joke among staff that soon ‘there would be no gay people left.’
