Did anyone else hear Helen Webberley on R4 this morning?

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She runs some medical websites in Wales that have been taken down while they are investigated by CQC
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-39520785

Helen Webberley runs a transgender advice and medical service that is renowned for giving prescriptions for cross sex hormones on the basis of an online appt and £50 prescription charge. She prescribes to children. She was very cagey about the nature of her "advice service" this morning
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/11/transgender-nhs-doctor-prescribing-sex-hormones-children-uk

It'll be interesting to see what happens!

Fantastic posts DonkeySkin. This is the next medical scandal upfolding before our eyes, with the full support of ethics committees, the Royal Colleges and GMC. The utter uselessness of the panoply of regulation is exposed (honourable mention to the CQC for closing down Webberly but that's mainly because she prescribes online, not because of what she is prescribing). The RCGP is on record as considering pre-transition counselling to be conversion therapy. These children are being utterly let down by the medical establishment. It's a disgrace.

Im a Trans woman who went through the system and im totally outraged at Dr Webberley. There are WPATH guidelines and NHS guidelines and Gender Identity Clinics are more than likely to refuse anyone treatment that has gone through Dr Webberley. She has no formal expertise in Gender Studies and in my opinion is putting people at greater risk. Yes gender clinic waiting lists are long but when you go to gender clinic not everyone who thinks they are trans actually are. She can cause other gps to lose their jobs. My own gp refused me hormones and i had to wait along with many who got to gender clinic. Yes the wait can be long as you dont get hormones the first time you visit a gender clinic. I do not recommend anyone to go to Dr Webberley and im coordinator of a Gender Service which does education, media work, lectures and public speaking and i always tell people yes its a long wait to get into a gender clinic but the wait is worth it to transition properly where you get the proper help than go to an online gp.

Thank you for your post, Shannon. It is interesting to hear other perspectives on this issue.

This is so shocking.

If you'd have asked me at 15 if I wanted kids, the answer would have been no. 18, no. 21, no. 27, no. Then I got married. decided I wanted kids after all, and discovered I couldn't have kids very easily. I spent a decade more or less trying.

I finally have children. Being pregnant, giving birth and feeding my babies and being their mum has been the best experience of my life by far. I just didn't have enough life experience when I was younger to make a decision about fertility. I just didn't. Children shouldn't be making these kind of decisions - it's why we don't let children vote, marry, drink or drive cars before a certain age. Why is this any different?

ads I am curious - what's your relationship like with your parents? Do you have a relationship with them individually?