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BPSWatch is keen to see a wider recognition of the contribution that Dr Anne Woodhouse, consultant clinical psychologist, has made to exposing the worrying deficiencies of the HCPC. Far from providing reassurance that their regulation offers the public protection, they waste resources and fail to deal with the worst of their trans ideology activist registrants who make malicious and unjustifiable vexatious complaints. Simultaneously, they are failing to investigate a myriad of potentially legitimate complaints about social media propagandising or serious specific practice issues in such contexts as expert witness provision. We recently made a fully referenced and evidenced complaint against a senior practitioner responsible for the Tavistock GIDS children’s service debacle and linked their professional behaviour to specific HCPC standards which were not met by that registrant in that key position over a number of years. Unsurprisingly, the HCPC chose not to investigate, stating that “… Concerns which relate to an organisation are outside our remit and should be resolved through the local complaints process…”.
Below, with the agreement of ScotPAG, we reprint their account of Dr. Woodhouse’s experience and pay tribute to her persistence and courage. This is a link to the blog and the original piece which itself has additional links to all the documentation of Dr Woodhouse’s Tribunal papers.
Our Homage to Dr Anne Woodhouse
Dr Anne Woodhouse is a member of ScotPAG. We are delighted that her recent HCPC Tribunal found that there was no case to answer regarding allegations of misconduct affecting her fitness to practice as a clinical psychologist.
The allegations were clearly vexatious, made by a LGBTQ activist and Depute Head Teacher of the school Dr Woodhouse’s daughter attended. The HCPC took the claimant’s unfounded allegations at face value, and failed to do any due diligence to establish the burden of proof, pursuing Dr Woodhouse for three years over fact-based tweets. This has been tantamount to harassment.
The HCPC has lost its way as a regulatory body, and it is time for similar organisations to wake up to their ignorance of what is actually happening in society. Instead of persecuting individuals like Dr Woodhouse, HCPC should have been supporting and congratulating her for her diligence and care. She had done her research, and had surveyed the evidence. Dr Woodhouse had also been alert to the failures of various organisations and public services which had, via their promotion of gender identity ideology, twisted and corrupted the original safeguarding regulations for women and children.
Gender identity ideology is a scam based on junk science, which has been visited on us all. It has caused terrible harm to countless children and their families, and it has hounded countless women and some men out of their jobs and livelihoods. It has upended many organisations and made them not fit for purpose. Politicians and many organisational leaders have proved themselves to be useful idiots to this authoritarian movement which demands the sterilisation of children and the compliance of all. If organisations like the HCPC, the BPS, the Scottish Government, the Labour Party and the BBC (plus too many others to mention), had actually done their homework properly, the gender identity ideology movement would have been ignored and labelled as the snake oil nonsense that it is.
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