The health regulator is being sued over its decision to approve a private trans clinic for children which has been set up by former Tavistock staff.
Gender Plus was registered by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to prescribe hormones for those aged 16 and over despite a crackdown on such treatment by NHS England.
That decision will now be reviewed in the High Court after the judge granted permission for judicial review in a case brought by a Tavistock whistleblower and the mother of a trans teenager.
Paul Conrathe, Senior Consultant Solicitor at Sinclairslaw, said: “Despite well-known concerns about gender medical treatment for children with gender dysphoria, the CQC registered the first hormonal clinic run by ex-Tavistock clinicians.
“The High Court has ordered that a full trial should take place which could result in the clinic’s licence being revoked.”
The private clinic was set up by Dr Aidan Kelly, a clinical psychologist who worked at the Tavistock for five years, and it employs a number of former GIDS staff members.
It was registered with the CQC in January, making it the first of its kind to be approved by the health regulator to prescribe cross-sex hormones to over-16s. It is an offence for providers of regulated healthcare activities in the UK to operate if they are not registered.
The CQC made the decision despite previously publishing a highly critical inspection report which was instrumental in the closure of the Tavistock.
It approved Gender Plus just months before the publication of the long-awaited Cass review.
The report by Dr Hilary Cass, a paediatric consultant, made 32 recommendations, including calling for the “unhurried” care of those under 25 who think they may be transgender and an end to the prescribing of powerful hormones to under-18s.
Tavistock, and all involved with it need to go away forever!
Let the arrests begin. Why across the left are little children used and abused by these evil people? Full term abortions. Child sex slavery. Adrenochrome harvesting. And of late, the evil and hideous transitioning of children. And usually at the head of this? Women. In this case 3rd wave feminazis. The left women are seriously deranged. What was their concern at the election of POTUS? That they couldn’t have abortions. My body. My choice. Me me me. Trained like clapping seals to gorge down on lies by guess who? 3rd wave feminists usually in their 60s. You see them at demonstrations. The organisers. Draped in dirty clothes from a bygone era with nose piercings trying to look cool. Karens with a scream like a banshee telling their gaggle of useful idiots to scream louder, stand over there, attacking anyone that dares question them. And now they’re infecting schools with their fascism. A healthy society does not need them. A healthy society protects their most vulnerable - our babies and little ones, their elderly and vulnerable. This festering wound needs to be lanced and drained. And for a caring society, our most vulnerable among us needs to be protected.