Gender GP: inside the world of private trans healthcare
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Gender GP's Helen Webley
Helen Webley is 56 and lives in Central Cardiff with her husband and one of their five adult children. She trained as a GP but was always more interested in how people felt than in complex diagnoses. Says she always has to look up the right prescription but she can read her patients like a book. It all started for her in 2015 when a patient walked into her surgery in Blannell, South Wales who wanted to take female hormones. Even early on, when she knew so little about treating gender dysphoria, she's a million times more certain than the director of the Tavistock Clinic,. Polycom Michael told me much of their job was about managing uncertainty.
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