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

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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.

Bouman is currently active on LinkedIn and his LinkedIn profile still lists him as:

Honorary Professor School of Medicine
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Aug 2018 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

Consultant in Trans Health
Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health · Part-time
Oct 2017 - Present · 5 yrs 8 mos
Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities include provide clinical care, including hormone treatment for trans people; training and education in transgender healthcare; as well as involvement in national and international organisations promoting the care and rights of trans people.

But his name is not found anywhere on either the University of Nottingham or the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health websites.

He links to a "Meet The Team" document on LinkedIn for the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health (NCTH) but the document does not exist.

This is the actual "Meet the team page" and he is not on it:

https://ncth.nhs.uk/meet-the-staff

His contact link goes to a page on Nottinghamshire Health Care NHS Trust that does not exist.

However, he is still listed by the Government as working for NCTH:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gender-recognition-certificate-list-of-medical-practitioners-in-gender-dysphoria/doctors-and-psychologists-specialising-in-gender-dysphoria#east-midlands

He is still registered with the GMC:

https://www.gmc-uk.org/doctors/3502251

He is still registered as a member of the College for Sexual and Relationship Psychotherapy:

https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/therapist/walter-pierre-bouman-iajymaac/

Both Nottingham University and the NCTH are mentioned in his bio for the GenderCOS project researching "Core Outcome Sets for Genital Gender Surgery":

https://www.gendercos.org/team

Yet, bizarrely, he does not get the slightest name-check on the websites of the two UK institutions with which he claims affiliation: Nottingham University and Nottinghamshire Health Care NHS Trust's Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

Even if he is only an Honorary Professor in the Medical School at Nottingham University and a part-timer at NCTH it is weird that neither mention that they are associated with such a big cheese in WPATH and EPATH.

I don't know what to make if it.

Maybe some of the medics on the thread can make sense of it?

Ah, yes, it's coming bck to me know.

Bauman co-authored a book with Meg John Barker and Christina Richards

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Genderqueer-Non-Binary-Critical-Approaches-Sexuality/dp/1137510528/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1684590442&refinements=p_27%3AWalter+Pierre+Bouman&s=books&sr=1-1

Co wrote this paper with Arcelus, published last month. He's still regularly publishing papers.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S152169342300038X

Is this why Professor Hindmarsh had to step down and is no longer working ??? I read he had made the complaint to the GMC? He is an amazing endocrinologist but I’m
wondering if him stepping back (? Voluntarily or forced) linked to this case ?