The Medical Practitioners Tribunal is hearing witnesses and experts on the fitness of Dr Helen Webberley to practise medicine. The GMC present evidence on Webberley’s treatment of patients and calls expert witnesses. Webberley is defended by her own legal team and will call her own experts. Three weeks into the Tribunal, she has not yet presented her own witness statement.
The Endocrine Society USA has a position which seems to be led by Joshua S Safer MD who runs the Mount Sinai Centre for Transgender Medicine and Surgery. See his press release 'Endocrine Society condemns efforts to block access to medical care for transgender youth' April 14th 2021. Endocrinologists in UK, Sweden and Finland are diverging from his supposed "evidence based" protocols. The American College of Pediatricians inc 3000 physicians have expressed alarm and concerns re promotion of experimental treatments as the gold standard/best practice for transgender children and adolescents which the Biden administration has endorsed. They say “Doctors should never be forced to perform a controversial and often medically dangerous procedure that goes against their best judgment, their conscience,especially when it involves vulnerable children experiencing mental and emotional confusion,” Blake’s statement said. “To force doctors to engage in experimental medicine that poses a risk to patients—or face huge financial penalties, withdrawal of federal funding, or removal of their ability to practice medicine—is an extreme violation of doctors’ constitutional rights and certainly not in the best interest of the patients they serve.”
I cannot say enough bad things about endocrinologists, who are rated as the worst specialists. I cannot receive proper thyroid care due to their utter idiocy. My husband has all the symptoms of a Type 1 diabetic -- constant hunger, weight loss despite eating a lot, etc -- and the endocrinologist he saw was at a total loss. She wanted to put him through a glucose tolerance test, which is always done without medical supervision, and I said absolutely not because he would black out (he has blacked out numerous times due to hypoglycemia). Someone on here said that the profession psychopaths prefer is surgeon; well, endos are not far behind.
Whether child or adult, there needs to be significant psychiatric input in these cases. It is no more normal for someone to want to chemically and physically mutilate their body because they think they belong to a different sex than it is for them to want to kill or starve themself (as in anorexia). Dysphoria is primarily a mental illness, and needs to be treated as such. By all means, let's have an escape path from psychiatric care in the most intractable cases, but it needs to be the opinion of more than one consultant psychiatrist, and never a GP. A recent court case has allowed that adult anorexics can ultimately refuse force-feeding, subject to strict conditions, though this goes to refusal of treatment rather than consent to it. The law around brain surgery for psychiatric reasons might be a better guide, since the results change fundamental aspects of the person irreversibly, just like treatment for dysphoria.
The Endocrine Society USA has a position which seems to be led by Joshua S Safer MD who runs the Mount Sinai Centre for Transgender Medicine and Surgery. See his press release 'Endocrine Society condemns efforts to block access to medical care for transgender youth' April 14th 2021. Endocrinologists in UK, Sweden and Finland are diverging from his supposed "evidence based" protocols. The American College of Pediatricians inc 3000 physicians have expressed alarm and concerns re promotion of experimental treatments as the gold standard/best practice for transgender children and adolescents which the Biden administration has endorsed. They say “Doctors should never be forced to perform a controversial and often medically dangerous procedure that goes against their best judgment, their conscience,especially when it involves vulnerable children experiencing mental and emotional confusion,” Blake’s statement said. “To force doctors to engage in experimental medicine that poses a risk to patients—or face huge financial penalties, withdrawal of federal funding, or removal of their ability to practice medicine—is an extreme violation of doctors’ constitutional rights and certainly not in the best interest of the patients they serve.”
I cannot say enough bad things about endocrinologists, who are rated as the worst specialists. I cannot receive proper thyroid care due to their utter idiocy. My husband has all the symptoms of a Type 1 diabetic -- constant hunger, weight loss despite eating a lot, etc -- and the endocrinologist he saw was at a total loss. She wanted to put him through a glucose tolerance test, which is always done without medical supervision, and I said absolutely not because he would black out (he has blacked out numerous times due to hypoglycemia). Someone on here said that the profession psychopaths prefer is surgeon; well, endos are not far behind.
Dead behind the eyes; no Duchenne lines when smiling.
Whatever the motivation for this abuse, I don't know, but she needs to never practice again, nor any practitioners like her.
Whether child or adult, there needs to be significant psychiatric input in these cases. It is no more normal for someone to want to chemically and physically mutilate their body because they think they belong to a different sex than it is for them to want to kill or starve themself (as in anorexia). Dysphoria is primarily a mental illness, and needs to be treated as such. By all means, let's have an escape path from psychiatric care in the most intractable cases, but it needs to be the opinion of more than one consultant psychiatrist, and never a GP. A recent court case has allowed that adult anorexics can ultimately refuse force-feeding, subject to strict conditions, though this goes to refusal of treatment rather than consent to it. The law around brain surgery for psychiatric reasons might be a better guide, since the results change fundamental aspects of the person irreversibly, just like treatment for dysphoria.
The time given by volunteers to reporting is so appreciated
So, good news? Will this inflict any splash damage to Mermaids seeing as they were complicit in this?