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tyle=”padding-left: 40px”>It is the latest controversy around the clinic, which was set up in 2015 by Helen Webberley, 54, a doctor from south Wales, and her husband Michael, 57, a former gastroenterologist. It is able to defy NHS guidelines because it is private.

Michael Webberley was struck off in 2022 for “wide-ranging failings” in prescribing hormone treatments to patients as young as nine without proper assessments. One teenager was prescribed testosterone without any consultation of medical records. They took their own life a few months later.

A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) panel found there had been a “catalogue of failings” in relation to his care of the seven patients between February 2017 and June 2019.

None of this is mentioned on GenderGP’s website, in which he describes himself as “a highly experienced and respected consultant physician of 23 years’ standing.”

Helen Webberley is the public face of GenderGP. She was found to have committed serious misconduct by an MPTS panel in 2022.

Daniel Sugarman – thinking of Amos Oz:

of an exodus of volunteers if the charity's international parent body forces the policy on them. It also warned that women in need of support would be put off from attending meetings if trans women were present.

The report read: 'Opening meetings to males (of any gender identity) would exclude a significant number of our beneficiaries i.e. mothers.

'At meetings, they expose their breasts and share intimate experiences. Most are comfortable doing so around other mothers; many will not breastfeed around men, whether for religious reasons, modesty, previous (or current) experience of male violence or 'just' discomfort."

Obviously.

Update: Statement from the concerned LLLGB trustee group defending sex-based rights.

“La Leche League (LLL) has always been about mother-to-mother support to breastfeed. Being able to provide a female-only service is fundamental to the rights, safety and wellbeing of both mothers and babies.

“The volunteers at LLLGB have built a powerful legacy over 50 years, having helped thousands of mothers in a culture that is not always supportive of breastfeeding.

“Pressure to abandon mother-only breastfeeding services has been building internationally at LLL for several years as gender-identity activism has gathered force. We are now at the point that group leaders around the world are being told they must support ‘male lactation’.

“As a group of current trustees of LLLGB, we have exhausted every process available to us to defend sex-based services. LLL International and a small number of fellow trustees at LLLGB have undermined our efforts and left us with no choice but to alert the Charity Commission.

“We would like to reassure group leaders and the mothers who benefit from LLLGB’s services that we are confident the law is on our side, as mother is a sex-based term in UK law.

“Our primary focus is to serve mothers and their children, and we are determined to see through this turbulent time and secure the future of LLLGB as an organisation with mother-to-mother support at its heart.”

Manhattan ca. 1901. "St. Paul's Chapel and St. Paul Building — Vesey Street and Broadway, New York."

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The St Paul Building, on the left, was completed in 1898 – at the time one of the tallest skyscrapers in New York at 26 stories. It was demolished in 1958.

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.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68924299″>cleared Columbia's Hamilton Hall and made a number of arrests.

We heard yesterday about Iranian enthusiasm for the US anti-Israel campus protestors. Here's more:

Tehran University professor Foad Izadi, one of the leading mouthpieces of the Iranian regime, discussed encampments in American college campuses on an April 26, 2024 show on Ofogh TV (Iran). He said that Iranians like what they see on the college campuses, but “it should not end with this.” Izadi continued to say that these students are “our people.” He added that if tensions between America an Iran rise, “these are the people who will have to take to the streets to support of Iran.” Izadi said that Iran could potentially repeat what it did in Lebanon in greater measure, because its “Hizbullah-style” groups in America are “much larger” than in Lebanon. He further said that America is the Great Satan and Iran’s main enemy, but “we have hope.”

At the Isabella Plantation, Richmond Park:

Parent @UCLA gave permission to release this audio of her phone call with @UCLAPD as they describe the school's directive to allow protestors to restrict the movement of Jewish students.

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when you challenge that certainty, even in an empathetic way. A good therapist will skillfully try to move through this discomfort and encourage the child to understand that their certainty is not necessarily a helpful, healthy thing. This is already a challenge on an individual, clinical level. But the politicised culture around the trans issue makes everything worse.

For the longest time, not embracing gender-affirming care had you instantly dismissed as a bigot. This just isn’t true. Those of us who don’t instantly affirm a child’s identity are the ones actually interested in opening up discussion. We’re interested in exploring the variety of rich and complex ways that a person becomes who they are. We are not interested in pushing children into narrow gender stereotypes, which state that boys are always logical and play football, or that girls inevitably want to dance and wear pink. These beliefs, on which gender-affirming care relies on, are deeply regressive. That’s why exposing them to external scrutiny, as the Cass Review did, has been so important.