Dr Michael Webberley

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• haven't had a chance to keep an eye on his tribunal, but from what I'm reading:

'Dr Michael Webberley applied for voluntary erasure from the GMC register. The Tribunal say it is "unfortunate" that was not determined prior to the hearing today.

MW had two requests for postponement declined & has now provided new medical evidence for an adjournment'

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This is fucking hearbreaking.

I'm wondering if angry endocrinologists might be quite the growing phenomenon around puberty blockers being used to 'treat' children. After all, they're being positioned to carry the can for the debacle at the Tavistock's GIDS service.

‘If you leave them alone they end up reasonably happy with assigned sex at birth’

'RQ: this idea if you let a little bit of puberty happen, the child will suffer greatly, isn't true. There's a difference between I feel like the opposite sex rather than 'I don't want that to happen to me'. They are enormously different'

'His practice was to give the customer what they wanted even if not in their best interests. Treatments he used were extreme and invalidated. Failure of diagnostics and therapeutics and I think failure of humanity'

I am just catching up on this morning's tweets - this is in relation to a different patient. Holy moly.

Is Mermaids still signposting to GenderGP?

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This is fucking hearbreaking.

Isn't it just. RQ's fury is palpable, just from the tweets. Imagine being the families and children embroiled in all of this. It's utterly sickening.

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'His practice was to give the customer what they wanted even if not in their best interests. Treatments he used were extreme and invalidated. Failure of diagnostics and therapeutics and I think failure of humanity'

I am just catching up on this morning's tweets - this is in relation to a different patient. Holy moly.

I know. If I wasn't on the iPad I'd have C&P'd more. It just goes on and on. It feels different in tone to HWs.

Here are some more from this morning:

'although he speaks of raising T levels, the ref range he quotes, is way over any I've ever seen. I've never seen an upper limit like that, he's basically invented an upper level of normal.'
[14:30]
'MH seems to terrify patients into treatment and talks about risks that aren't there'
[14:32]
' the regime is not what he initially said. He then goes into the full dose stacking regiment and it's like he's reverted to type and... what can I say...it's just incredible'
[14:32]
'one feels this is a vulnerable adult taken advantage of and put a risk. By treating stuff that isn't there and not treating stuff that is there'
[14:33]

Helen seemed to do more of the public facing stuff.

And here's Gender GP's lead therapists latest tweet:

'If am asked to verify what JKR has said that is transphobic, I reply, what has she done that wasn’t transphobic? I mean, has she represented trans people accurately in her books, has she given a large donation to a trans charity or is it only Cis children that deserve her money.'

twitter.com/OakesMarianne/status/1509132707988705280?cxt=HHwWgMC4qfiMwvEpAAAA

Anyone who hasn't given a large donation to a trans charity? Transphobic.

They do love large donations, don’t they?

And all the time, medically illiterate and blasé with regards to their ethical responsibilities.

Everything is transphobic. Except for taking your child to a quack who doesn't give a hoot about them and will quite happily ply them with off license drugs.

Do you think any of this will make anyone listen? If I'd chosen GenderGP for my child I know I'd be keeping track of this tribunal. And where are the TRAs in all of this? No one saying a word, or simply fingers in ears La La La laaaaa because it's all transphobic?!

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RQ:' this is extraordinary. There's almost no indication of prescribing PBs to a child of 9. This is exceptional for special paediatric endocrinology. It would be exceptional for a gender service and initiated by a doctor without TG knowledge or paediatrics...I'm speechless'

I've just been reading that one on twitter.

Nothing I can add 😶

'If you flip back to MW CV he appears as superman, he can do everything' - RQ again

Re Gender GP: 'there's noone qualified to prescribe hormones'

RQ: 'it says there's a specialist nurse but doesn't say what the specialism is. There's no peadiatric nurse Specialised in gender. Noone qualified to diagnose GD or prescribe hormones. Dr A, not qualified to make gender assessments or trained adequately'

Panel: you don't see an adequate MDT process?
RA: the problem is the MDT membership they can talk to each other as much they want but if they can't prescribe there's no point.

Panel: I was never asked to review Dr A's curriculum ...Dr A has never trained with a recognised centre in gender to get that experience
Panel: we're not concerned with Dr A
RQ: yes but just to make the point MW couldn't have got exp from Dr A

Chair: when you say noone is qualified, do you mean they don't have exp necessary and out of area competence?
RQ: yes whereas by contrast if there had been a qualified prescriber in MDT and Dr A had been the GP then as part of shared care agreement

Surely we are in criminal territory here? This isn't just malpractice, this is abuse.

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Surely we are in criminal territory here? This isn't just malpractice, this is abuse.

I was just about to ask this. It is gross malpractice. Is there any criminal case following this court case?

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Surely we are in criminal territory here? This isn't just malpractice, this is abuse.

Following the case and I agree

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Surely we are in criminal territory here? This isn't just malpractice, this is abuse.

It seems to me to go far beyond negligence. A doctor 'terrifies' people into treatment?

'RQ: to stop a chds puberty is a major step, it's not a neutral action and for bone density purposes, we hope it'd recover but we'd need to see'

'RQ: Children with delayed puberty have got vertabrea that's narrower and that's an irreversible thing that's not gonna change. When you stop growing that's it'

'RQ: children with GD tend to revert to birth sex, adolescents seem to not revert. It's not a neutral step and I would reiterate if you have a difficult case, for goodness sake make sure it goes by the most experienced ppl on your team'