This Morning guests discuss their transgender four-year-old

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Dr Helen Webberley was interim suspended by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal panel after it was discovered she was running the unlicensed practice. She was fined £12,000 after she was found guilty of illegally providing healthcare services from her home under the firm Online GP Services Ltd.

But now Dr Webberley, who was working in Wales at the time, said today the service had been crucial to trans people as young as 12.

The GP had been prescribing hormones and ‘puberty blockers’ to children as young as 12 – many of whom had been previously denied treatment via the NHS.

Speaking to Manchester Evening News today, Dr Webberley encouraged communities not to “pass judgement”.

“People will often say we’re experimenting on young people,” she added.

“But doing nothing and waiting to see what happens causes puberty to happen.

“We can ask the transgender adults of today when they knew they were trans and they will say they knew something wasn’t right when they were growing up.

“They might not have known why they didn’t fit in or what the language was to explain it at the time but they knew from a really young age – even if they couldn’t describe it at the time as being transgender.

“Don’t pass judgement until you’ve spoken to these people who are begging for us to stop their puberty because you will be converted.”

The medic, whose 55-day tribunal will be held in Manchester, continued: “You will realise that they do know what they’re talking about.

“People are struggling so much that they’re harming themselves and contemplating suicide.

“The evidence is still there but you’ll still get people who don’t care to listen to it.”

The tribunal will hear how Dr Webberley was accused of ‘failing to provide good clinical care to three patients’ between March and November 2016 and how two patients were said to have been ‘prescribed inappropriately’ in September 2016.

It will also inquire into the allegation that she was ‘unaware of safeguarding policies’ during a CQC inspection in January 2017.

In addition, it will look into Dr Helen’s conduct and whether she was ‘dishonest’ in information provided to the GMC and the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board in Wales.

The tribunal will also consider whether Dr Webberley attempted to avoid the regulatory framework of the United Kingdom when acting as the principal provider of the GenderGP website.

It will also inquire into the two counts of ‘carrying on or managing an independent medical agency without being registered under the Care Standards Act 2000’ which she was convicted and fined for.

A General Medical Council spokesperson said: “Dr Helen Webberley is suspended from practising following an Interim Orders Tribunal at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.

“Interim Orders Tribunals do not make findings about allegations or decide whether a doctor’s fitness to practise is impaired but assess the risk posed by a doctor if they were to continue to practise while subject to an investigation by the General Medical Council (GMC).

“The GMC’s investigation concluded that the doctor should be referred to a Medical Practitioners Tribunal, which will make an independent decision on the allegations.

“Dr Webberley will appear before a Medical Practitioners Tribunal from 26 July.”

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