But when Hopper’s fitness to practise was assessed at a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing in May this year, which looked at whether Hopper should be allowed to continue as a doctor, the tribunal found “an extremely high level of seriousness and risk in this case, and that Dr Hopper has not demonstrated any meaningful insight or remediation into the impact of his behaviour on public protection”. Recommending that he be struck off the medical register, Robert Dudley, on behalf of the GMC, said: “The doctor’s professional life cannot be separated from his personal behaviours.”
That's an interesting paragraph if you consider he had a sexually motivated fetish and was a doctor. They are saying he took his fetish to work and that his personal behaviours were so much part of his identity they could not be separated from his professional life.
His defence barrister told the court that Hopper had suffered from lifelong gender dysphoria, as well as body dysmorphia, which manifested in a loathing for his feet. “They felt like an unwelcome extra.” He had tried to fill his life with family and work, but could not quiet the “constant noise” and “persisting, never-ending discomfort” caused by the idea of his feet. (Gustavson’s legal team had made similar arguments at Gustavson’s trial: that he had body integrity disorder and had simply been offering a service to others like him.) But the sexual content, both in the videos Hopper watched and in the communication he sent Gustavson while he was harming himself, are undeniable. Hopper was aroused by what he saw, and what he did
These are not an insignificant comments.