The Tavistock clinic – NHS England’s gender identity service for children – has been threatened with court action over ‘missing’ emails to the pro-trans organisation Mermaids.
A concerned parent placed a Freedom of Information request asking for details of emails between Mermaids and the Tavistock clinic between 2014 and 2018, but Tavistock initially refused.
After the matter was referred to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust claimed that after ‘an extensive search of emails’ it ‘does not hold the requested information’.
