A medical tribunal has found that a doctor who ran an online clinic for transgender children failed to provide follow-up care.

Dr Helen Webberley, the founder of website Gender GP, was accused of failing to provide good clinical care in 2016 to three patients.They were aged 11, 12 and 17, all of whom were transitioning from female to male.A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) panel found that 83 of the allegations made by the General Medical Council (GMC) that were made against the doctor could not be proved.However, the panel found that 36 allegations, including the doctor failing to provide adequate follow-up care to a 12-year-old who was prescribed testosterone, could be proved.

Emails, which were later shown at the tribunal, showed that the mother of Patient A had attempted to contact Dr Webberley after the prescription of testosterone for her child had run out. However, the doctor would never reply.The tribunal found that: "The correspondence cited above between August 2016 and February 2017 demonstrates that, notwithstanding the anguish which Mrs A and Patient A were experiencing, Dr Webberley did not deliver follow-up care to patient a in respect of psychosocial monitoring, or in fact physical monitoring and laboratory testing.""

Had she instituted a review system at the outset, she would not have been dependent upon Patient A or his mother requesting a review. If she was not going to arrange it herself, it was incumbent upon her to arrange for it to be provided by another."The Tribunal's chairman, Angus Macpherson, said: "The tribunal finds that the reluctance of the Endocrine Society and others to embrace enlightened views of transgenderism is symptomatic of the tendency in all professions to be slow to move with the times."This inertia in respect to medical attitudes to transgenderism mirrors past attitudes to homosexuality, which was classified by the APA as a mental illness until the 1973 edition of their DMS."