in the referrals of teenage girls to gids — the gender identity development service — and she had spoken to two clinicians who worked at the service. it wasn't really a big sort of whistle—blowy piece but they had talked to her and said — what they'd seen and itjust — i thought it was very interesting, but i was off and, you know, spending time with my baby. and there was also a documentary that same year on bbc two about a gender clinic — a children's gender clinic in canada. and then, it was really a leak of a report in the autumn of 2018, going into 2019, that really got me interested in this, which was a report where ten members of staff from gids had gone to... ..a doctor called doctor david bell — he's an adult psychiatrist at the tavistock — and they had relayed some very serious concerns and ijust thought, we don't often get nhs whistle—blowers. to have ten from a tiny service, something must