A couple of weeks ago Dr Helen Webberley won her appeal.

A GP offering treatment for transgender patients online has won a High Court appeal against her suspension as a doctor and can now work again.

Note the word “treatment.”

Dr Helen Webberley has been unable to practise medicine since last year after a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel found she committed serious misconduct.

But on Friday, a High Court judge said the panel’s determination was “wrong”.

Dr Webberley said she was celebrating a return to her “life saving work”.

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Mr Justice Jay said he had “concerns” about “certain aspects” of Dr Webberley’s “practice” in relation to Patient C – including a “failure to have a face-to-face consultation on the issue of fertility”. But he added: “It is far from clear to me that what did take place should be strongly criticised.” The judge went on: “The sole focus of this appeal has been the quality of the appellant’s clinical practice in relation to one patient, Patient C. This appeal does not raise any wider issues about the wisdom or otherwise of administering puberty blockers to the younger age group who wish to undergo interventions for gender reassignment with full parental agreement.”

But Webberley is treating it as endorsement of everything she does.

In a statement on her website, Dr Helen Webberley thanked her supporters and said she had faced “discrimination” because of her work. “Today marks the day where I am free to practise in my profession again,” she said. “The GMC proceedings against me are over, and I have been fully cleared to continue my work. The High Court judge has ordered that the case be closed with no further action. I am simply a well-meaning, well-educated GP who was willing to learn how best to provide this care and I was brave enough to stand against the outdated NHS model of care which is evidently not fit for purpose in its current state.”

Now to today and a post by Maya Forstater:

The recent TGEU “Landscape report” on what it terms the anti-gender movement in Europe tells this short story:

“Attempts at defunding have impacted the charity Mermaids, which supports trans children. An anti-trans social media campaign convinced the Big Lottery Fund to review their grant, though funding was upheld when the claims were found to be baseless.”

How were the claims “found to be baseless”? They asked Susie Green and she said no. That’s some high quality finding right there!

This refers to events in 2018/19 when Mermaids was given a £500,000 grant by the National Lottery Community Fund. Over 800 people wrote to the fund (both for and against awarding the grant). It undertook a review and raised the concerns with Mermaids, which denied them all. The lottery took these denials in good faith and awarded the grant.

Lottery fund: “Hello, Mermaids? National Lottery here. We have concerns. Are we right to have them?”

Susie Green: “No.”

Lottery fund: “Righty-ho! The check is in the post.”

Yesterday, in the wake of Dr Helen Webberley winning her appeal against the General Medical Council, Green (who now works for  Webberley’s private prescription service Gender GP) tweeted an extraordinary thread which gives a quite different account than that given to the National Lottery review.

Extraordinary how? The no turns out to be a yes. That’s how.

Maya gives the details of what the Lottery asked and what Green answered. Does Mermaids push medical transition as opposed to less permanent and drastic actions? Green said no then and says you’re damn right we do now.

Susie Green now says that she encouraged GenderGP to extend its practice to children. Gender GP practices a model that does away with lengthy psychoanalytic assessment processes which it calls “intrusive and over-bearing questioning”, and instead offers hormone prescriptions based on “acceptance and informed consent”.

Read Maya’s post, then read it again. It will make your hair stand on end.