I promised to tell you how this all started….
In 2015, I founded @GenderGP and soon after I was told that I would be targeted by the very doctors who so desperately needed more doctors to help to provide care to cope with growing waiting lists. 1/23 🧵
The GMC recognised that the complaints had come from my colleagues and not from patients. I told them this had happened before. 2/23 🧵
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The first target was in the form of a veiled threat regarding my adult patients from Dr Leighton Seal from @TaviAndPort and GenderCare. 3/23 🧵
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His colleague and co-founder of GenderCare, Dr Stuart Lorimer, followed next, sending his concerns directly to the @gmcuk with the apparent backing of the small specialist group that currently provided this care. 4/23 🧵
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If you remember, Dr Lorimer and his other colleague from Charing Cross, Dr Barrett, were the ones that complained about Dr Russell Reid to the GMC when he started offering private care. 5/23 🧵
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In February 2016, Dr Lorimer wrote to the GMC again. He has never contacted me personally, he just chose to write to the GMC. Oddly his concerns included being vocal on social media and seeing patients by video, which he himself does! 6/23 🧵
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My husband was attacked in the same way that I was. We didn’t have the financial or emotional resources to defend his case and he suffered the worst penalty. 7/23 🧵
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Mr Yelland was next, a colleague of the private London Gender Identity Clinic consultants. He didn’t accept newcomers caring for adults either! 8/23 🧵
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And later in 2017, Mr Yelland referred me to the GMC. Usually colleagues would refer a doctor to the GMC for very serious matters indeed. But maybe trans healthcare is different…. 9/23 🧵
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Dr Barrett took a different route. His complaint went to the CQC, which was then referred on to the GMC. Maybe an attack is more successful if from multiple angles? 10/23 🧵
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Professor Gary Butler is obviously a key player in this and he started his attack when Patient A left his care to come under my care in 2016. Prof Butler wrote to many people, including the GP, to tell them how awful I was. 11/23 🧵
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Later in 2016, Prof Butler persuaded his Clinical Director, Prof Hindmarsh, to refer me to the GMC. Prof Hindmarsh took Prof Butler’s word for it and wrote the referral. The accusations were pretty terrible and very untrue and the GMC took it up 12/23 🧵
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The following year, Prof Butler is contacted by a child psychiatrist for advice about a patient under his care who was also under my care. Prof Butler advises him to refer me to the GMC as well. 13/23 🧵
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When Patient C’s GP phoned Prof Butler for advice, he is also told to refer the Webberleys to the GMC. It seems that Prof Butler really didn’t like us! 14/23 🧵
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The allegations were serious and the GMC were right to look into them, but they didn’t listen to my explanations and evidence along the way. This could have been avoided if they had simply listened. 15/23 🧵
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The UK expert medic was Dr John Dean. He had taken an interest in my work since the beginning and seemed supportive at first. After all, we were both GPs. 16/23 🧵
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But then Dr Dean added his own complaint to the GMC outlining his own concerns about the Webberleys. Oddly he didn’t think this would be a conflict in him being an impartial expert witness. 17/23 🧵
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Dr Dean had also had a lot to say when discussing my care and GenderGP with those higher up in NHS England. And he still didn’t declare it as a potential conflict. 18/23 🧵
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Dr Dean found that my care had been ‘seriously below’ the expected standard in all three patients, even though he had never looked after a young trans patient. 19/23 🧵
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Dr Dean was responsible for the majority of the allegations that I faced in my hearing. Yet when challenged on his expertise and opinion, he repeatedly told the Panel that this was outside his area of expertise. 20/23 🧵
During the time I have been under investigation, trans healthcare in the UK has got worse. The critics are allowed their voice, and any new doctors are either stifled or undercover. Things have to change. 21/23 🧵
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The doctors who reported me to the GMC get called out by the tribunal here…… 22/23 🧵
Tomorrow, I will find out the result of the appeal. I shall start a new thread that explains the main findings of the MPTS hearing and what that will mean for the future of trans healthcare. 23/23 🧵
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