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GenderGP - something afoot?

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umbel · 05/10/2020 20:41

Looks like something is about to drop.

GenderGP - something afoot?
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rogdmum · 06/10/2020 09:27

The BBC slot was very good- mentioned that GenderGP has been mentioned 500 times by parents (am assuming that’s individual messages rather than individual threads!) in the last year. I’d really like to know how much business GenderGP get via Mermaids.

OldCrone · 06/10/2020 09:09

On the GenderGP site it said that Faye Kirkland was writing something for the BBC. She's tweeted that she'll be talking about 'the latest investigation' on the BBC news channel at 9.20.

mobile.twitter.com/FayeKirklandGP/status/1313383407150411781

teawamutu · 06/10/2020 08:31

Good piece but bit too much detail on how to sign up IMO.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 06/10/2020 08:07

Hopefully people will also click through and read the "Related Articles".

Interesting that Gender GP has been bought by a Hong Kong company - must be money in it...

CuriousaboutSamphire · 06/10/2020 07:44

Woah! That last part!!

How to sign up for GGPs services... really?!?!?!?!?!

StandUpStraight · 06/10/2020 07:30

Thanks Nonny. Good to see Mermaids featuring in that sordid little tale. They won’t like that. I can hear a clock ticking...

OldCrone · 06/10/2020 01:01

Times article today.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chemist-sells-hormones-for-trans-children-online-cbgtxlbdr

It's about Clear Chemist who dispense drugs in the UK for GenderGP. There were some threads on here about that last year.

Suffrajester · 05/10/2020 23:32

Their YouTube channel is still up last I checked, both Webberleys feature and make some very wild claims indeed. Saying that hormones are in our bodies in small amounts naturally, so taking extra can't be that bad for you; dismissing the idea of psychiatric assessment before getting these hormones; saying you're likely more than a bit trans if you like wearing clothes or doing activities stereotypically associated with the opposite sex; the whole thing feels like even they themselves don't realise how grossly unethical and cavalier it all sounds. I would've thought they'd take it down after the GMC suspension but they really don't seem to think they've done anything wrong or realise how dangerous this misinformation is.

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 05/10/2020 23:02

The GMC needs to take stronger action against these people.

Gender GP were supposed to be setting up a clinic in Glasgow, but, that has not yet materialised.

Good.

OneEpisode · 05/10/2020 22:21

It sounds like the Mirror found evidence of the business model, but GenderGP are treating the expose as an advert, and the Mirror decided not to go to press. GenderGP have no shame.

ByGrabtharsHammerWhatASavings · 05/10/2020 22:09

I don't know what the legal limits if their practice currently are, but last time I checked reddit there were plenty of people (current patients) saying they were still being treated by them despite the move. That was right around the time of the suspension though, I haven't checked recently. Can't wait to see what shows up in the Times. Didn't they also prescribe hormones and blockers to patients they'd never even met after a single phone consultation, or over email, or something else insane? They're completely nuts. Posie has a great video of "Dr Wobberly" somewhere on her channel.

rogdmum · 05/10/2020 21:55

I wish we could get stats from GenderGP on numbers of children/adolescents and puberty blockers/cross sex hormones plus ages. I suspect rather a lot go through them rather than waiting the 3+ (or whatever it is now) waiting list on the NHS.

rogdmum · 05/10/2020 21:53

With GenderGP it’s not so much the age that puberty blockers are given that are a problem, it’s the lack of proper assessment/counselling and also the age where they have OK’d cross sex hormones - I.e. below the lower age limit of 16 on the NHS.

OldCrone · 05/10/2020 21:52

@persistentwoman

Is this the doctor who openly admits to prescribing puberty blockers to 12 years olds?
She prescribed testosterone to a 12 year old girl.
persistentwoman · 05/10/2020 21:50

Thank you. Another one of those 'this never happens' facts. Hmm

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 05/10/2020 21:44

And here it is on the website:

www.gendergp.com/without-dr-helen-webberley-my-son-wouldnt-be-here-a-letter-from-the-12-year-olds-mum/

Suffrajester · 05/10/2020 21:44

@persistentwoman

Is this the doctor who openly admits to prescribing puberty blockers to 12 years olds?
Yup, from the BBC interview:
ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 05/10/2020 21:43

@persistentwoman

Is this the doctor who openly admits to prescribing puberty blockers to 12 years olds?
According to this piece, yes.

www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/transgender-treatment-nhs-webberley-jayden-16504026

persistentwoman · 05/10/2020 21:34

Is this the doctor who openly admits to prescribing puberty blockers to 12 years olds?

Thingybob · 05/10/2020 21:29

@RozWatching

And isn't their business now registered in Belize or somewhere like that to get around the GMC ban? I'm surprised it's taken this long but better late than never.
Their website says Hong Kong
PronounssheRa · 05/10/2020 21:24

I assume that whilst the Wobberleys can't practice that they can employ doctors who can to do their work

That is my assumption. Interesting that the website has names of the therapy team, but I can't seem to find names of the doctors working for gender gp.

SunsetBeetch · 05/10/2020 21:19

@notyourhandmaid

The paranoia!
Or guilt?
Cascade220 · 05/10/2020 21:19

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RozWatching · 05/10/2020 21:19

And isn't their business now registered in Belize or somewhere like that to get around the GMC ban?
I'm surprised it's taken this long but better late than never.