Send ‘Time to Think’ to the people who need to read it

Will you sponsor a copy?

Hannah Barnes’ book Time to Think is a forensic examination of the care provided to vulnerable young people at the NHS’s flagship gender clinic for children. The book exposes how safeguarding concerns got lost as professionals came under pressure to affirm children’s identity and prescribe puberty blockers.

It is meticulously evidenced based on internal documents, legal testimonies and hundreds of hours of interviews with clinicians, patients and parents.

The NHS is now restricting puberty blockers for gender-questioning young people to medical trials. However in New Zealand puberty blockers are still widely available and used on gender-questioning young people at more than 10 times the rate in England.

The chart below plots the treatment rate per head of adolescent population in the two jurisdictions for the 12-17 age group. Data are sourced from Pharmac and the NHS. If the NHS now considers the much lower rate in England to be inappropriate and requiring futher restriction, then what of New Zealand's much higher, and still increasing, usage of puberty blockers? A medical scandal is playing out and our medical leaders must act. Our letter will ask book recipients to support an independent inquiry of gender identity services for children and young people in New Zealand as the UK has done with the Cass Independent Review

Puberty Blocker Treatment Rate Comparison - NZ vs England and Wales

We are looking for 100 people to sponsor a copy to send to key politicians and medical leaders. If you donate $30 today we will get the book in the post with a letter and a copy of Professor Charlotte Paul's recent December 2023 North and South article A Terrible Trap.

You can still donate to our affiliated organisation Genspect, of course. Your donations will help us follow up and make sure the books get to the people who need to read them.

Help us get it read!

Just as important as getting the book into the right people’s hands is making sure it is read.

If you have a personal connection to a politician, medical school, medical association, health NGO, or Te Whatu Ora leadership your connections could help. If uou would be willing to follow up with a personal letter and a request for a meeting please let us know by emailing [email protected]

If you have a suggestion for people that you think need to read Time To Think then please get in touch as well. We are starting with key politicians and we will add to and update the list below as we send out copies.

Key Politicians

Dr Shane Reti — Minister of Health (National) Karen Chhour — Minister for Children (Act) Matt Doocey — Minister of Mental Health (National) David Seymour — Associate Minister of Health (Act) Casey Costello — Associate Minister of Health (NZ First) Simeon Brown — Minister (National) Melissa Lee — Minister (National) Todd McClay — Minister (National) Chris Penk — Minister (National)
Dr Ayesha Verrall — Labour Health Spokesperson Ingrid leary — Labour Mental Health Spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime — Labour Children and Youth Spokesperson Hūhana Lyndon — Greens Health Spokesperson Ricardo Menéndez March — Greens Health Spokesperson Chlöe Swabrick — Greens Mental Health Spokesperson Kahurangi Carter — Greens Children and Rainbow Communities Spokesperson Tamatha Paul — Greens Youth Spokesperson Laura Trask — Act Mental Health Spokesperson Shanan Halbert — Labour Rainbow Spokesperson
Sam Uffindell — Chair of the Health Select Committee (National) Dr Hamish Campbell — Deputy Chair of the Health Select Committee (National) Dr Carlos Cheung — Member of the Health Select Committee (National) Cameron Luxton — Member of the Health Select Committee (Act) Jenny Marcroft — Member of the Health Select Committee (NZ First) Debbie Ngarewa-Packer — Member of the Health Select Committee (Te Pāti Māori) Dr Vaneesa Weenink — MP and former GP (National) Helen White - MP (Labour)

Professional bodies

Dr Luke Bradford — RNZCGP (Medical Director) Dr Michael Shepard — Paediatric Society of New Zealand Dr Owen Sinclair — Paediatric Society of New Zealand

Medical Council
New Zealand Association of Counsellors
New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists
New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists
Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa NZ
Royal ANZ College of Psychiatrists
Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Notable medical experts

Sir Peter Gluckman — Paediatrician and for Chief Science Advisor

Public Sector Organisations

Te Whatu Ora leadership
Medical directors
Health and Disability Commissioner
Children's Commissioner
University of Otago Medical School
University of Auckland Medical School

Who are you?

We are "Fully Informed", a group of people from across New Zealand concerned about the legality and long-term impacts of prescribing puberty blockers to children. We are affliated with the international organisation Genspect. Some of us are parents. We have several decades of experience in policy, medicine, research, and the law.

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