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Episode Guide
The Gender Clinic
Series: Kids on the Edge
Series Progress: Episode 1 of 333% Completed
Synopsis
It's the first question that's asked, before we're even born - 'is it a boy or girl?' But for an increasing number of children, the answer isn't straightforward. The first programme in this series, directed by Bafta-award-winning Peter Beard (My Son the Jihadi), follows two families who attend the Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service, through life-changing decisions. The Tavistock's gender service is the country's only NHS-run gender clinic for children and young people with gender dysphoria - a profound distress caused by feeling they've been born into the wrong body. With transgender issues and stories rarely out of the news, the gender specialists have seen a 100% rise in referrals, but still understand very little about why children feel this way. Led by Consultant Psychologist Dr Polly Carmichael, the gender team have to decide whether or not to prescribe controversial drugs to children and teens. Ash and Matt are two of the children who regularly visit the gender clinic. Ash, who is eight and lives as a girl, has just moved to a new primary school, where no one knows she was born a boy. She doesn't want to tell her new friends her secret in case she is bullied again. Matt doesn't want to talk about his gender, or the fact that he was born a girl - this is not helped by his diagnosis of autism and his problems with communicating. He just wants people to accept him. While mum Rachel must grapple with losing her daughter, she must also give consent to give 11-year-old Matt hormone blocking drugs to stop him becoming a woman.
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📊 Series Binge Profile
Total Content Density: 3 hours 15 minutes (3 episodes)
Intensity Rating: Relaxed Watch - Easy viewing. Perfect for casual watches.
Binge Milestones
1 episode/day: 3 days
3 episodes/day: 1 days
5 episodes/day: 1 days
Episodes (3)
- S01E01 - The Gender Clinic Viewing
- S01E02 - Last Chance School
- S01E03 - Troubled Girls