Top Harley Street psychiatrist accused of 'conversion therapy' by trans patient – PinkNews

Thousands demonstrate outside Downing Street in a stunning call to ban trans conversion therapy. (Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images) The UK’s General Medical Council (GMC) is investigating a complaint into a Harley Street psychiatrist who has been accused by a trans patient of conversion therapy. According to the i, the complaint was submitted by an anonymous 18-year-old trans man, who attended a psychiatric assessment with Dr Az Hakeem. On his website, Hakeem, a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists who has appeared on TV shows like Big Brother and Wife Swap, describes himself as a “gender critical psychiatrist”. Hakeem offers “specialist psychotherapy for gender dysphoria”, and says that he “does not try and persuade or dissuade anyone from pursuing physical sex interventions such as hormones or surgery but his role is to provide a neutral exploration space to think about sex and gender”. But in a complaint to the GMC, the anonymous former patient said that he was 17 when he attended an assessment with Hakeem, and alleges that the psychiatrist “invalidated my opinions, then imposed his view of gender”. “He made it clear from the very start that he was sceptical of my gender and expressed doubt…
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