'Cowboy' trans care clinic ran by ex-NHS GP and self-proclaimed 'champion of ... trends now
A private clinic offering puberty blockers to British kids questioning their gender is registered in Singapore — where the powerful drugs aren't given to children.
GenderGP is ran by Dr Helen Webberley, an ex-NHS GP who describes herself as an 'advocate for LGBTQ+ healthcare rights and inclusivity'.
Critics told MailOnline GenderGP has shattered any 'pretence' that it cares about those rights by setting up in the south east Asian nation.
Her business, which boasts of helping anyone 'however old they are', advertises its £270 puberty blocking injections online, despite campaigners calling for an urgent crackdown on 'cowboy clinics'.
Children can no longer get the drugs on the NHS after a landmark ruling last month, meaning they have to go private to get them.
Dr Helen Webberley is the face of private care for gender questioning youth in the UK an area of increasing controversy in the wake of the Cass review
Health chiefs said there was no evidence the drugs, which pause physical changes of puberty like breast development and the growth of facial hair, were either safe or effective.
Ministers have since pledged to 'look carefully' at ordering a ban on private clinics after a bombshell report by expert paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass expressed concern over their behaviour.
In the wake of the review, a defiant GenderGP said children 'will suffer and die' if the Cass review recommendations are taken forward.
GenderGP is an off-shore organisation that's registered in Singapore, which doesn't recognise gay marriage.
The island nation only repealed a ban on sex between men in 2022.
Singapore also doesn't permit any under-18s to get puberty blockers and cross sex hormones on its equivalent of the NHS.
Kids can get hormones privately from the age of 16, however.
Because it is based outside the UK, it does not need to be registered with the regulatory body the Care Quality Commission.
The landmark Cass review on gender care for children in the UK put services like that of Dr Webberley's under the microscope.
Led by expert paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, the scathing review found children were being set on a path of irreversible change despite 'remarkably weak evidence' to support medical treatment like puberty blockers and cross sex hormones.
Dr Cass's review also singled out private services, finding GPs had been 'pressurised to prescribe hormones' by patients who had seen a private clinician.
The report, which ran to nearly 400 pages, issued a stern warning over 'the use of unregulated medications and of providers that are not regulated within the UK'.
Dr Cass said GPs should resist attempts by private providers to prescribe puberty blockers or hormones, 'particularly if that private provider is acting outside NHS guidance'.
UK advocacy group LGB Alliance chief executive Kate Barker told MailOnline: 'Unregulated private clinics that sell puberty blockers to these children are cashing-in on their confusion.
'Any pretence at "caring" is debunked by the hypocrisy of registering a clinic in a tax-haven which is actively hostile to gay rights.'
Dr Webberley's GenderGP offers a range of treatments to youngsters experiencing doubts over their gender identity.
Its website states that it doesn't enforce a strict age criterion for assessment and doesn't require parental consent.
However, it does add children don't need medical intervention until they reach a particular stage of puberty.
It uses EU-based prescribers to issue scripts for drugs like puberty blockers and hormones which are valid in the UK under a post-Brexit agreement.
This allows patients, even children, to bypass NHS guidelines on who should get these drugs.
On its F&Q page explaining its system it states that UK pharmacies are 'not allowed to refuse to dispense' such scripts without 'good reason'.
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