Dr Webberley and a conversation with Dr Hilary Jones
Recently, I took part in a studio interview with Dr Hilary Jones, alongside a trans woman, Shivone, sharing her own lived experience.
The conversation was wide-ranging, calm, and thoughtful. It covered areas that are often treated as flashpoints, gender identity, puberty blockers, access to care, discrimination, and public misunderstanding, but it did so without hostility or simplification.
What struck me most about this interview was not any single question, but the quality of the exchange.
The questions were asked openly, without assuming bad faith.
Shivone’s lived experience was given space alongside my clinical explanation.
Complex issues were allowed to remain complex.
Sadly, that is not always the case.
Over the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing short clips from this interview here. I’ve chosen each clip so that they focus on one question or theme that arose naturally during the discussion. From early awareness of gender identity, to the impact of delayed care, to why fear and misinformation so often dominates the public debate.
I’m sharing these clips because they show what is possible when conversations are based on a genuine desire to share, education and learn.
They also show something else that matters very much to me, that trans healthcare is about real people, real bodies, real childhoods, and real consequences when care is delayed, denied, or politicised.
This interview is not presented as a definitive account, nor as a model that every broadcaster must follow. It is simply an example of what happens when space is made for evidence, ethics, and lived reality to sit alongside one another.
Each post in this series will be clearly labelled as part of the Dr Hilary Interview and numbered, so readers can recognise them as a connected body of work rather than isolated clips.
This Substack exists to hold responses carefully and in context. This conversation is where that begins.
Clips will be shared gradually, alongside my other writing
Not every part of the interview will be published
Context will be added where it genuinely helps understanding