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Helen Webberley Gender GP urges Dr Hillary Cass to adopt WPATH standards of care

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ArabeIIaScott · 16/05/2023 17:38

https://www.gendergp.com/dr-helen-webberley-open-letter-dr-cass/

'the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) has published their Standards of Care version 8.These give very clear and evidence-based recommendations on how to care for transgender people. These recommendations were jointly published by 130 international experts coming together to share their knowledge and expertise and having evaluated the research.
These should be immediately adopted to form the core standards of care that is provided in the UK rather than allow the current UK specialists, who did not take part in the development of these standards, to reestablish their own protocols and care pathways.
One of the allegations that the GMC made against me was that I had failed to follow WPATH guidance, and that of the Endocrine Society. These allegations were not found proved but during their determinations, the Tribunal found ‘that WPATHSOC7 has the status of peer-reviewed expert guidance.’ To not adopt this guidance puts our UK doctors at risk of criticism by their regulator.
The MPTS also found that the University of San Francisco and California (UCSF) Guidelines ‘had the status of peer-reviewed expert guidance’. It was, in other words, ‘the practice accepted as proper by a responsible body of medical men skilled in that particular art’.’ (Para 223)
The WPATH SOC8 and the Endocrine Society Guidelines 2017 and the UCSF Guidelines endorse the use of puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones* after having extensively reviewed the literature. I see absolutely no reason why you cannot recommend that UK clinicians adopt these excellent guidelines, and start providing care to these patients, today.'
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'by all means evaluate the data to inform future best practice, but do not withhold care pending your research programmes.'
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'you are ignoring adopted best practice from across the world. Trans children are dying, and something needs to be done. Today.'

*and also suggest treatment to affirm 'eunuch' gender.

Open Letter to Dr Cass

Dr Helen Webberley responds to Dr Cass' journal entry letter. She explains the potential harms Dr Cass' approach could have on young transgender people.

https://www.gendergp.com/dr-helen-webberley-open-letter-dr-cass

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WarriorN · 16/05/2023 17:49

the practice accepted as proper by a responsible body of medical men skilled in that particular art

Medical men? Are they having a laugh?!

How do we know if they're men or identify as women? Or are trans men?

WarriorN · 16/05/2023 17:48

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howdoesatoastermaketoast · 16/05/2023 17:43

Alongside flat earth / vaccines / and the existence of sex I can add castration nay / yay ? as questions I thought we'd already answered

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