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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Webberly Vs Joyce

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CassOle · 10/11/2025 14:49

https://nitter.poast.org/mollylguinness/status/1987891680964493390#m

'Join us for the Times Radio Gender Debate at 9pm on 20th November @HJoyceGender debates @HelenWebberley, presented by @Jo_Coburn live on @TimesRadio and on our YouTube channel.'

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HildegardP · 20/11/2025 22:35

user1471538275 · 20/11/2025 22:18

Jo Coburn did well there and took her headphones off with relief - I really wonder what the next few minutes in the studio were like.

I do get the posters that say it felt a bit 'mean girls' ganging up on the terribly nice and sincere Dr who just loves people and wants them to be happy.

HW's whose demeanour, facial expression were of sorrow and frustration that people just didn't understand - and she is a DOCTOR don't you know - and apparently a spokesperson too.

Whereas HJ looked thoroughly exasperated at HW's constant stream of 'chatting shit' and was left constantly trying to intervene to point out facts like 'Supreme court's judgment is actually law not guidance'

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Dunno, I think Webberly is approaching, if not already at, that point in the Andrew Wakefield saga where all his, "I'm a doctor doncha know & I care about these children, & I've got my very own research, & loads of my colleagues who you don't know because they go to a different hospital, agree with me" started to look plain shifty to people who up until then had no particular interest in the controversy he'd created. He naffed off to the US too.

Sure, she pulled sad faces, blustered, & tried to wring hearts but those aren't behaviours that normal people value in their childrens' doctors. When push comes to shove, people want to know that their children are getting the best that medical science can offer, not treatments based on vibes, & if that's what they want for their kids, it's a very small step to ask oneself if cranks like this should be anywhere near anyone's kids.

user1471538275 · 20/11/2025 22:37

@HildegardP SOME parents want the best evidence based care for their children.

SOME parents are utterly convinced that if they don't affirm their children great harm will come to them.

SOME parents would prefer their child to be the opposite sex for reasons of their own.

SOME parents like the attention provided by having such a 'special child'

ALL parents worry that whatever they do, they're doing it wrong.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 20/11/2025 22:38

I can’t believe Webberley came right out with it, and said that her colleagues are getting around the PB ban by prescribing other drugs that basically do the same thing.

Not, me, though, Guvnor - i’m not practicing as a doctor right now.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why she isn’t practicing at the moment?

Mum4MrA · 20/11/2025 22:39

So scary to listen to HW (still on the JB interview ). She doesn’t answer a question clearly and just keeps interrupting JB. Very difficult to listen to for more than 20 minutes, but I will persevere. I’m wondering where all the male rape victims are…

DrBlackbird · 20/11/2025 22:41

GCinAcademia · 20/11/2025 22:09

Do you think HW's gone home thinking "well, that was a good day of PR"?

Yes. There is no such thing as bad publicity. She’s only concerned with raising her profile to a converted audience wondering where to get the drugs. Now they know.

Niminy · 20/11/2025 22:42

Mum4MrA · 20/11/2025 22:39

So scary to listen to HW (still on the JB interview ). She doesn’t answer a question clearly and just keeps interrupting JB. Very difficult to listen to for more than 20 minutes, but I will persevere. I’m wondering where all the male rape victims are…

Re wondering where the male rape victims are: ask your gay men friends.

TheHereticalOne · 20/11/2025 22:43

Finished.

Possibly the most galling line repeated ad nauseum by Webberly in both the HJ and Julie Bindel discussion was, "well, I think we have to be very careful [about saying X completely reasonable and evidence-based thing]" vs a total absence of needing to be very careful about prescribing life-altering drugs to children (including in doses liable to quite literally kill them, as HJ pointed out).

I have come away from those discussions feeling that, while HW may well be operating according to a particularly malignant brand of self-interest in the stance she's taking, it is very clearly aided and abetted by a total want of basic reasoning skills.

NancyBlackettt · 20/11/2025 22:44

Mollyollydolly · 20/11/2025 21:32

She's a slippery bugger isn't she. I know she's talking bollocks but I can imagine how parents are taken in. It's all too polite, I just want to pelt her with tomatoes. Waiting for the details of Gender GP.

She has a kind of low-key, con artist charisma about her. Ever so calm, matter-of-fact and that soft-spoken, almost ASMR voice that sounds very reassuring. I can absolutely see lots of parents feeling in very safe hands with her. And that’s the scary thing.

ArabellaSaurus · 20/11/2025 22:46

Webberley is pretty good at staying calm, obfuscation, ducking out of answering by playing indignant, ignoring hard questions, and changing the subject. She made a lot of her medical background, which could sound convincing to someone without much knowledge (or awareness of her tribunals etc). And yes, she can end up quite often controlling the conversation.

She's a manipulator and very good at playing victim, changing it round, controlling the narrative, avoiding accountability. Slippery.

She knows what rhetoric to use for broad brush points, peppers her speech with key phrases like 'unkind' and 'trust' and 'believe'.

She is a very, very dangerous woman. Thank god she's at least not practising in this country, but how many children may she have harmed in addition to the ones we know about?

BruachAbhann · 20/11/2025 22:47

I'm exhausted after watching both interviews. I can't imagine how Helen Joyce must feel now! I think she did a good job but it's impossible to debate with someone like Webberly, with her ad hominem remarks about HJ not being a medical doctor (even though she isn't either) and refusal to comment on any signal case or acknowledge her own dodgy cases! She's so dangerous in that she could sound semi plausible to the novice listener. Though I think even if I knew nothing about the issue I'd still come away thinking she had committed serious malpractise and harm to children.

ArabellaSaurus · 20/11/2025 22:48

People with personality disorders are very, very hard to debate with. You have to play the game, and playing the game means you are playing their game.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 20/11/2025 22:50

NancyBlackettt · 20/11/2025 22:44

She has a kind of low-key, con artist charisma about her. Ever so calm, matter-of-fact and that soft-spoken, almost ASMR voice that sounds very reassuring. I can absolutely see lots of parents feeling in very safe hands with her. And that’s the scary thing.

Yes. I reckon she's had media training from the head tilt brigade. How to present yourself as unthreatening and victimised by all - while spouting dangerous views about sterilising children and claiming that of course 8 years olds can consent to their future infertility, incontinence and loss of sexual function.

I thought Helen made a great effort and Jo was good with questions. But it did highlight the challenges (that we all understand) of how to challenge all this effectively in the face of outright lies, fake stats and claims of perpetual victimhood.

EarthSight · 20/11/2025 22:53

Can't wait to listen to this.

@ArabellaSaurus True. It's hard to argue to with disingenuous, passive aggressive people because of all the dishonesty.

GCinAcademia · 20/11/2025 22:53

DrBlackbird · 20/11/2025 22:41

Yes. There is no such thing as bad publicity. She’s only concerned with raising her profile to a converted audience wondering where to get the drugs. Now they know.

That was what DH said too.

But I can’t comprehend a parent watching that, hearing her deny any accountability for the children she’d harmed (J for example), and think it was a good idea letting her have any say over medication prescribed to their DC.

ArabellaSaurus · 20/11/2025 22:58

GCinAcademia · 20/11/2025 22:53

That was what DH said too.

But I can’t comprehend a parent watching that, hearing her deny any accountability for the children she’d harmed (J for example), and think it was a good idea letting her have any say over medication prescribed to their DC.

There are plenty of terrified, confused, and credulous parents out there, as well as those who are abusive, deluded, mentally ill themselves.

Rightsraptor · 20/11/2025 22:59

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 20/11/2025 22:38

I can’t believe Webberley came right out with it, and said that her colleagues are getting around the PB ban by prescribing other drugs that basically do the same thing.

Not, me, though, Guvnor - i’m not practicing as a doctor right now.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why she isn’t practicing at the moment?

She said in the interview with GB News' Ben Leo the other day that her registration had lapsed/she'd not renewed it. As far as I know doctors are like nurses and midwives in that they have to do a certain number of clinical hours and professional development over a given period in order to renew their registration. Of course, if a doctor had been up before a fitness to practise hearing which had gone against them, even if that was overturned in the High Court, it might seem a convenient or even an elegant way of leaving the profession.

nicepotoftea · 20/11/2025 23:00

BruachAbhann · 20/11/2025 22:47

I'm exhausted after watching both interviews. I can't imagine how Helen Joyce must feel now! I think she did a good job but it's impossible to debate with someone like Webberly, with her ad hominem remarks about HJ not being a medical doctor (even though she isn't either) and refusal to comment on any signal case or acknowledge her own dodgy cases! She's so dangerous in that she could sound semi plausible to the novice listener. Though I think even if I knew nothing about the issue I'd still come away thinking she had committed serious malpractise and harm to children.

Isn’t HW a GP without any specialist training?

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 20/11/2025 23:02

Rightsraptor · 20/11/2025 22:59

She said in the interview with GB News' Ben Leo the other day that her registration had lapsed/she'd not renewed it. As far as I know doctors are like nurses and midwives in that they have to do a certain number of clinical hours and professional development over a given period in order to renew their registration. Of course, if a doctor had been up before a fitness to practise hearing which had gone against them, even if that was overturned in the High Court, it might seem a convenient or even an elegant way of leaving the profession.

Ah, right. Thank you.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 20/11/2025 23:02

I've only watched the Julie Bindel one so far but Webberley is terrifying. It doesn't matter that she's talking illogical bollocks, she's not doing this for us, she's setting out her stall as someone to buy meds from, and she is very professionally putting across the points that trans people want to hear. They will lap up what she says, and disregard what her opponent says as Webberley comes across as very reasonable and concerned and knowledgeable.

I think a PP.l described her as a psychopath and I don't think that is far.off.

TempestTost · 20/11/2025 23:07

FWIW, it's a medical degree that makes someone a medical doctor, not the medical licence. The only reason you'd not be able to call yourself a doctor any more is if your degree was obtained fraudulently or something like that.

user1471538275 · 20/11/2025 23:11

There's a definite whiff of Dolores Umbridge about HW.

One has to be cruel to be kind you know. 'little trill'

HildegardP · 20/11/2025 23:13

Niminy · 20/11/2025 22:26

The trouble is, if you already know about those things (as we do) we can see through her, but most people have no idea about them. Most people will have to go on how credible they think a person sounds, and I'm afraid that if you didn't know anything you might well think the most credible person was HW. And you might certainly think she was more sympathetic and being attacked by both interviewer and responder.

That's why I said "come to bite her in the arse", the mere mention of the Eunuch chapter was good - it will have given a large number of male listeners a powerful shock & a reflexive discomfort around the inguinal canals. Even that superficial discussion of it will have shocked a lot of people of either sex who didn't know about it, & what, if any, is their immediate referent? The now-jailed "Eunuch Maker" Marius Gustavson & his accomplices.

You & I already know that MG was a longtime contributor to the Eunuch Archive & that WPATH members in good standing brought EA contributors into the construction of WPATH's SOC8 Eunuch Chapter, contributors including the lead gender "expert" on the chapter, Thomas W. Johnson, but so far that story hasn't hit hard or with all its ramifications. Now though, someone has taken HW herself there, made that undeniable link between her, her "professional" body, & all the weird, illegal world of the Eunuch Archive & nullos that gave us 3 years of red-top headlines.

(It's worth bearing in mind that some of the people who've slithered under the banner of "TQ" campaigning in the UK are people who've been fighting since 1990 to overturn the final ruling in the famous Spanner Trials that says you can't consent to GBH.)

BruachAbhann · 20/11/2025 23:19

ArabellaSaurus · 20/11/2025 22:46

Webberley is pretty good at staying calm, obfuscation, ducking out of answering by playing indignant, ignoring hard questions, and changing the subject. She made a lot of her medical background, which could sound convincing to someone without much knowledge (or awareness of her tribunals etc). And yes, she can end up quite often controlling the conversation.

She's a manipulator and very good at playing victim, changing it round, controlling the narrative, avoiding accountability. Slippery.

She knows what rhetoric to use for broad brush points, peppers her speech with key phrases like 'unkind' and 'trust' and 'believe'.

She is a very, very dangerous woman. Thank god she's at least not practising in this country, but how many children may she have harmed in addition to the ones we know about?

Yes, I think it's extremely disturbing listening to her talking. I'm struggling to even explain to myself how I feel. Seeing someone who seems to actually believe they are doing the right thing (can she truly believe this though?), at least justifying it to themselves, and acting like they are doing the right thing is terrifying. I think it would be possible to be fooled by her if you were a parent looking for 'gender affirming care' and the thought of all the harm she has done makes me feel physically sick.

BruachAbhann · 20/11/2025 23:20

user1471538275 · 20/11/2025 23:11

There's a definite whiff of Dolores Umbridge about HW.

One has to be cruel to be kind you know. 'little trill'

that's how Helen Joyce described her in her substack today.

HildegardP · 20/11/2025 23:22

Mum4MrA · 20/11/2025 22:39

So scary to listen to HW (still on the JB interview ). She doesn’t answer a question clearly and just keeps interrupting JB. Very difficult to listen to for more than 20 minutes, but I will persevere. I’m wondering where all the male rape victims are…

136 confirmed in the Manchester area from one perp alone, Reynhard Singa. Police believe he raped or sexually assaulted at least 206 young men before he was caught, the odious slimeball.

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