Times Article - Webberleys Ignore Court Ruling

[rogdmum]

I think most people know they have vowed to carry on but this Times article is quite good.

“The General Pharmaceutical Council, which regulates pharmacies in England, Wales and Scotland, said: “We are carefully considering Tuesday’s High Court ruling and any actions we should take as the pharmacy regulator.”

“ Following the judgement, criminal barristers have been instructed to consider whether or not any criminal offences have been committed. It is being considered whether doctors were reckless as to the consequences, and reckless as to whether children were properly able to give informed consent. There is the possibility that this could lead to criminal proceedings.”

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Fabulous. This is what needs to come next.

Those responsible for dishing out dangerous untested medication and doing dangerous, unnecessary surgery need to be sued. And locked up.

Also, schools that persist in teaching children lies about being 'born in the wrong body' or that puberty blockers are a safe, reversible treatment, also need to realise that in choosing to ignore their safeguarding responsibilities, they will face direct repercussions from Ofsted. Or conceivably be sued too.

And as the Guardian article www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/06/keira-bell-lawyer-warns-on-internet-coverage-of-transgender-issues states, websites that knowingly promote dangerous treatments should also face sanctions (I assume in the same way pro-ana websites are agreed to be harmful).

@PigletJohn

What does "plan the parents" mean?

Sorry, typo. I meant they said they'd "blame the parents".

I wonder what other circumstances would parents be able to put their child forward for a medical experiment that would likely sterilise them and doctors would just shrug and say "OK sure, if you say so, I'll do it, no worries".

Times article says
Despite being overseas, GenderGP has continued treating patients in England using a legal loophole which means drugs prescribed by doctors in the European Economic Area can be dispensed in the UK, allowing young people to circumvent some NHS safeguards and waiting lists.

Will this still apply after 1st January? I genuinely have no idea whether by leaving Europe we will also have left that arrangement and thus closed the legal loophole.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime I was just going to ask the same question about whether Brexit would affect this prescribing from Spain/Cardiff thing. That would be a surprise upside to Brexit.

There has to be one!

Oh, Helen

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Interesting reading some of the comments on this article. So many saying parents should be referred for child abuse etc. Makes a refreshing change to reading comments in other papers talking about how devastating the judgement is.