Disgraced GP boasts puberty blockers positively impact gender-confused kids

The founder of notorious clinic GenderGP has boasted that people are obtaining puberty blockers overseas to evade the UK’s recent restrictions on dispensing experimental hormones to gender-confused children.

In an interview with The Times, Dr Helen Webberley claimed to know parents who are “just going on holiday” in order to buy the drugs.

In light of an emergency ban until 3 September, under-18s are no longer allowed to obtain the experimental drugs via private prescriptions from the UK or Europe. GenderGP, which is based in Singapore, is affected by the ban as it issues prescriptions via Europe.

Cass Review

In April, the Cass Review of England’s gender services found insufficient evidence to support the safe or effective use of puberty blockers and trans drugs for children.

However, in her interview Webberley claimed the review had already led to deaths and that “hundreds” of parents believe that it has “put their children at risk”.

She also accused the highly respected paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass of using different research to the “world’s medical experts in transgender health”.

Dr Cass has repeatedly clarified that only research of at least moderate quality was used for the report’s conclusions, discounting 43 of 103 studies.

Tavistock

The GenderGP founder agreed with the closure of the Tavistock clinic, but said this was because it wasn’t ‘affirmative enough’ of children’s ideas that they were the opposite sex.

She claimed that instead of pushing children to undergo trans procedures, it was “completely the opposite”, and accused whistleblowers who raised safeguarding concerns of simply ‘disliking trans people’.

Tavistock’s replacement services at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and Liverpool’s Alder Hey opened in April and are set to operate under NHS guidance informed by findings from the Cass Review.

Dangerous

Earlier this year, GenderGP was accused of issuing a “dangerously high” dose of cross-sex hormones to a 15-year-old girl with autism.

In a court hearing over the child’s access to the drugs, expert witness Dr Jacqueline Hewitt said she had never seen such a “massive” dose given to a child in her 20 years of practice.

Judge Sir Andrew McFarlane found that GenderGP did not consult a doctor before issuing cross-sex hormones, and urged other courts to proceed with “extreme caution” before approving its practices.

Dr Webberley moved the business overseas, after she was found guilty of running her illegal online clinic from her home in Wales.