Disgraced GenderGP founder loses UK licence to practise

The disgraced doctor who founded the controversial trans clinic GenderGP is no longer legally permitted to practice medicine in the UK.

The General Medical Council (GMC) has confirmed that Helen Webberley failed to revalidate her licence within its required five-year time frame. The revalidation process calls for doctors to demonstrate that they are “up to date and fit to practise”.

Last month, the founder of GenderGP – notorious for prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children – boasted that people are obtaining the experimental drugs overseas to evade the UK’s recent restrictions on dispensing them to gender-confused children.

Undeterred

Responding to the GMC’s decision, Webberley said she had “fought incredibly hard” to keep her licence, but vowed to continue her work.

She claimed that she was no longer treating patients individually, explaining: “With GenderGP we have a whole team of professionals who do that.”

A GMC spokesman said: “Every licensed doctor must take part in the revalidation process, which provides assurance that they are keeping their knowledge up to date, are fit to practise and that no concerns have been raised about them.”

He added: “If doctors do not comply with our guidance on revalidation without reasonable excuse, we may withdraw their licence to practise.”

Catalogue of failings

In 2018, the GMC suspended Webberley from working in the UK after she was found guilty of running her illegal online clinic from her home in Wales.

A 2022 Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel then found her guilty of “serious misconduct” and imposed a two month ban after it ruled the controversial medic had put three children at “unwarranted risk of harm”.

It reported that the GP did not follow up on two patients aged twelve and 17 who had been prescribed testosterone, and that she did not warn an eleven-year-old of infertility risks associated with puberty-blocking drugs.

Earlier this year, GenderGP – which is now based in Singapore – was accused of issuing a “dangerously high” dose of cross-sex hormones to a 15-year-old girl with autism.