Gender GP: Malpractice in Plain Sight
For years it was clear the Webberleys' Gender GP clinic was endangering children's health. A new judgment confirms this and calls into question the entire gender affirming healthcare model.
Two weeks ago a judgment by the Family Division of the High Court exposed jaw-droppingly shoddy care at a private clinic. At any normal time this would be merely a side-bar, a story that came and went. Incompetent doctors harming patients is, after all, a tale as old as medicine itself. But these are not normal times.
This is a longer and more discursive (and ruder) version of an article Spiked Online has asked me to write about Gender GP. I’ve tweeted about this ghoulish clinic in the past.
The article will appear early next week. They tend to take out my rudest comments!
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Thanks, by the way, for all the comments about my last article on Kevin Spacey. Feisty! The producers of a podcast that takes a very different line also got in touch and asked me to listen to it. I’m in the process of doing that and I can already recommend it. Absolutely fascinating. The awful John Barrowman (whom I can’t stand) is a minor character.
The team were also the producers of last year’s drama reconstruction of the LGB Alliance v Mermaids Tribunal, where I’m told the biggest laugh was John Nicolson MP solemnly reading out my insulting comments on Twitter which effectively said he was a prize a-hole.
Clearly people then whose opinion I value. I’ll let you know my reaction after I’ve listened to the whole series.
The signs that trans ideology is collapsing around us have become loud and unmistakeable, from the discrediting of Gender Self-ID and the Cass Review to a string of employment tribunals that have upheld the right of employees to believe that biological sex is a factual reality. Who knew? This latest medical scandal though may be the most important sign of all and deserves to have lasting consequences.
The reason is that it involves one of the luminaries of so-called gender affirming healthcare, the medical pathway championed by the LGBTQ+ lobby. A pathway that has become the centre of fierce debate across the Western world, and a touchstone for both Left and Right.
The case involved Gender GP an online hormone clinic that has long been held up by the trans movement as a model of its ideal clinical future. Its founders ex-GP Helen Webberley and her husband Michael, a retired gastroenterologist, embraced the core claims of trans ideology, that children know they are trans from a very early age and the job of doctors is not to question the child’s claim -or that of a dodgy parent for that matter- but to provide the powerful hormones they demand with as little medical gatekeeping as possible.
It's an approach this case has revealed to be dangerous.