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the cass review, as it s called, came out last week, and it recommends a new approach for clinicians. this is a polarising subject for some people. so, what mightjournalism do differently in how it covers it? hannah barnes is a former bbc producer who investigated some of the uk s gender identity services for the corporation s newsnight programme. she went on to write a book about it. i asked her when she first started her investigation. first came across it at all in 2017. i was off on my first maternity leave and there was a piece in the times byjanice turner which was talking about this really rapid increase 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 ....
which was talking about this really rapid increase 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 be going on. so, that s ....
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 be going on. so, that s what started it. so, what were you doing? were you approaching them at that point? were you trying to find out who these whistle blowers ....
hearings, and i ve covered dozens of them. when a top presidential aide is facing a hostile committee, the lawmakers conduct something of an inquisition, and the witness eventually jabs back at what he or she considers unfair questioning. so the stage was set when the house oversight committee began pummeling merrick garre canland for hours on the hunter biden investigation. but the attorney general was use as a punching bag, he did not punch back. instead, he repeated the same basic answer over and over and over again. he had named david weiss, a delaware federal prosecutor who had been running the investigation, as special counsel and stayed out of it. mr. weiss was a longstanding career prosecutor, was pointed appointed by president trump. i m not permitted to discuss ongoing investigations. mr. weiss is an experienced federal prosecutor with extensive experience and with sufficient credibility to be appointed by president trump. i just have no grounds for interf ....
of illicit information. it was exciting. you felt like a spy. i don t know to this day how many people have heard my deepest secrets, my desires. but phone hacking was not practised by the mail on sunday or the daily mail. you have just about anybody who s ever appeared - in a tabloid newspaper saying, give me large wodges- of cash, please. i think it s actually a legal scandal. i it s not the money i m after. it s to expose their guilt. it s justice. as long ago as i can remember, all i ever wanted to do was act. that was it. that s my only memory. i ve been lucky that i have loved myjob. but the other side of it, which i was completely and utterly unprepared for, was overwhelming. i fell very much in love with my first co star and got papped with him, and the next day had ten people outside my house. and that was it. it was from one day to the next. it was not there, and then it was very much there. tv reporter: ever since jude got together with sienna - on the set ....