Providing trans healthcare to children is criminal harm
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull said:
“I would like to see some criminal responsibility for people who have harmed children, like, um, Helen Webberley. I would like to see those people criminalized.”
Framing a doctor's practice as child harm and calling for criminal prosecution sounds like a serious safeguarding concern, which most people would take seriously on instinct.
No criminal conviction has been established against me, and calling for one based on the provision of gender-affirming care is a political position, not a legal finding. Regulatory proceedings and criminal guilt are not the same thing, and presenting them as equivalent in a public broadcast, by name, is a serious conflation. The care I provided to young people followed recognised clinical frameworks, and the evidence base for gender-affirming care is endorsed by major medical organisations internationally. The person who pays when a doctor is publicly named as a criminal for treating trans youth is not only that doctor: it is every young person whose path to care becomes a little steeper, a little more frightening, because the adults who might help them have been told that helping is a crime.
Helen Webberley directly, through reputational damage from an unsubstantiated criminal allegation, and trans young people whose doctors are publicly branded as criminals for treating them.
I have answered this one in full: How can we hold people accountable without criminalising disagreement?