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Dr Helen Webberley: We meet children’s need for gender-change hormones The GenderGP founder on the Cass report, her battle with the establishment and why she supports the continued use of puberty blockers Dr Helen Webberley, a transgender advocate, co-founded GenderGP but faces opposition JOSHUA BRATT FOR THE TIMES James Beal , Social Affairs Editor Friday June 28 2024, 10.00pm BST, The Times D r Helen Webberley would not divulge the exact number of children in the UK using her online gender clinic — but she did say that overall patient numbers were staggeringly high. The former GP from south Wales said that there were “definitely” more than 10,000 people of all ages, including children, on the books of GenderGP. How many patients has the  controversial clinic  — which facilitates treatment for children as young as eight — seen since its inception in 2015? “I don’t know the numbers — but 10, 20, 30,000?” she said. “It’s just huge, and obviously not just from the UK. We have pe...

  LIBBY PURVES Talking up teen suicide risk is sick opportunism Claims that gender-questioning children will take their life if deprived of puberty blockers has no foundation in fact Libby Purves Monday July 22 2024, 12.01am BST, The Times Share D on’t wince away, bored from gender wars and Wes Streeting’s restriction on puberty blockers that suppress hormonal changes in physically normal children. Focus on one serious wickedness: the moral blackmail of troubled parents, a reckless and cruel spreading of lies. As to sexuality and gender itself, its private mysteries offer plenty for philosophical debate, and a civilised country should respect idiosyncrasy and the right to be unusual. As for the privacy of woman’s spaces,  plenty has been written  in these pages in defence of that. Rather, I want to talk about a particularly despicable propaganda foisted on frightened parents of children who, out of the blue, declare themselves “trans”, either spontaneously or pressured by...