Mick Hartley

Helen Webberley, interviewed in the Times:

Webberley, 55, who co-founded GenderGP with her doctor husband Michael, 65, styles herself as an advocate for transgender people in the UK and across the world.

However, Michael has been struck off for treating transgender children, Webberley herself was taken to a tribunal (her suspension was later quashed), and the High Court has been told how a patient at the clinic was prescribed “dangerously high” hormone levels.

The issues have prompted concern about GenderGP, including from Dr Hilary Cass, the author of the comprehensive review of transgender healthcare in the UK.

One former GenderGP employee, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that staff at the clinic had been told they were treating 10,000 patients.

“When I started GenderGP I thought: ‘We’ll get a cohort of people that need us and then it’ll just stop’,” Webberley said this week in London. “(Then) everyday more and more. The demand… we’ve just never caught up. We have tens of thousands of people needing our care and more all the time.”

GenderGP is registered in Singapore, a country where gay marriage is illegal, and is not registered with England’s Care Quality Commission.

Webberley denied that the decision to base it in Singapore was to avoid scrutiny, explaining that they chose the nation due to GenderGP’s “mission to serve globally”.

Ha! 

Scrutiny has intensified on private gender clinics since the closure of the Gids clinic at the Tavistock Centre, which was shuttered after whistleblowers warned that children were being rushed through the service and set on a medical pathway.

Webberley agreed that the clinic needed to be closed, but said that it wasn’t affirmative enough. Traumatised parents told her that clinicians asked children “horrifically abusive” questions and conducted “horrific examinations”.

She added: “A few years later, we have the Tavistock scandal. And the Tavistock scandal is: they’re giving our children treatment too soon.

“And I’m like: ‘You could not be further away from the truth here’. So the Tavistock… got closed down for being too affirmative, when it was completely the opposite.”

But what about the whistleblowers?

“They don’t like trans people”, Webberley exclaimed, before defending the use of gender medicine.

She described puberty blockers as “the most natural medicine”. Testosterone, when used on people whose testicles don’t work, was the “most natural drug in the world”.

“People are alarmed at the side effects — well, these are the natural hormones we produce every day”, she added.

Puberty blockers as “the most natural medicine”?? They suppress the natural production of hormones in growing children. They're prescribed as treatment for prostate cancer and endometriosis. There's absolutely nothing natural about them – quite apart from the evidence that they almost invariably lead to hormone replacement therapy and invasive surgery. And girls' testicles don't work because they don't have any – which is why testosterone, for them, is not at all natural. Jesus.

Still, the money keeps rolling in…

Comments for the article turned off. Why do they do that? It would have been fun seeing the Times readers tearing into this appalling woman.