A GP’s registration was suspended yesterday after he admitted using his Twitter account to post offensive language about people who opposed his pro-transgender views on social media.
Dr Adrian Harrop, 31, called one woman he disagreed with “a venomous transphobic bigot”, whose central aim was to “demonise trans people” while “excluding them from public life”.
He said in another tweet: “Cis people, on the whole, are just awful and there needs to be a massive state-sponsored programme of re-education”.
The fitness to practise tribunal said that the retweeting of “highly offensive” language by Harrop was wholly inappropriate and brought his profession into disrepute. It condemned the GP for retweeting messages about one woman, but rejected the claim that his attacks amounted to cyberbullying.
However, after the tribunal said that Harrop’s posts were inappropriate for a GP in a public forum, it accepted that the woman called “a venomous transphobic bigot” had not taken any personal offence and that Harrop had been joking with his posts.
In a statement, Harrop, a GP in Liverpool, said: “I am not transgender myself but I am a fervent supporter of transgender rights.”
The hearing was also told that in one tweet Harrop used the term “terfs”, which stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminists, and said that they “dress up their hatred and bigotry towards trans people in a veil of genuine concerns re safety and civil, intellectual debate, but in truth it’s complete nonsense. Terfs hate Trans. Simple as that”.
While Harrop told his followers that the campaigns of those he opposed “should be brought to an end, by whatever means necessary”, the tribunal decided that he had meant only “legal and legitimate” means.
The tribunal found that Harrop’s misconduct had impaired his fitness to practice and suspended his registration for a month.
It said: “The tribunal considered that Harrop’s actions in posting inappropriate tweets over a sustained period of time, in contradiction to the advice he was given, breached fundamental tenets of the profession.
“His actions brought the profession into disrepute, undermining public confidence in the profession and the standards of conduct expected from members of the profession.”
“Cis people, on the whole, are just awful and there needs to be a massive state-sponsored programme of re-education”.
fighting hate with concentration camps?
Ha bloody ha. Such a vile and zealous individual and I’m so glad he’s got his comeuppance. *Well only a suspension but at least he might be less of a nuisance on twitter going forward.
This was the shit he had to deal with:
>One woman who led the complaints against Harrop, who claims that the gay doctor bullied her online, tweeted that he is a “sick degenerate”, claiming “he and his ilk are a danger to children.”
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>The “journalist and broadcaster” goes on to claim that the work done by UK trans charity Mermaids is “child abuse”, and compares the organisation to “The Nazis”.
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>She continued: “If witch burning were still a thing the faggots would be piling up around me.” Facing backlash from her followers for using the offensive word, she claimed “it’s not meant as an insult to gay people though.”
Disgusting that transphobic and homophobic bullies are allowed a victory, and his patients are denied a critical caregiver at a time when the wait lists for gender-affirming care number in 3-4+ years.
how the fuck is calling a venemous transphobic bigot a venomous transphobic bigot “offensive”.
Just going to point out this article doesn’t mention he tweeted details of someone’s job and address and encouraged people to go and harass them.
Also tweeted info about someone’s children’s school, claimed they were only angry because of their period, used mysoginistic slurs, attacked people for their religion.
All of which, you know, happens here on the daily. But the issue is using his position as a doctor to promote these views. Very deserved suspension, particularly as he showed no ability to reflect and learn from it which is literally all he had to do to avoid this.
Can’t be having a GP be pro-trans, we might actually get decent healthcare on the NHS!
Aye keep up the downvotes, I know, you aren’t allowed to criticise the NHS even when it is shite.
Harrop has bought into the idea that if you don’t agree with someone then you can’t respect them- so he sees disagreement as hatred rather than an opportunity to exchange ideas.
Everything I’ve seen and read about this man tells me he himself cannot respect anyone who doesn’t follow his specific line of gender politics, and seems to have a real problem with women.
No they were uspended for leaking personal information and inciting harassment. But sure pretend its because people hate trans people. Hes a hateful bigot who uses fighting bigotry to allow him to insult ‘the right people’
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A GP’s registration was suspended yesterday after he admitted using his Twitter account to post offensive language about people who opposed his pro-transgender views on social media.
Dr Adrian Harrop, 31, called one woman he disagreed with “a venomous transphobic bigot”, whose central aim was to “demonise trans people” while “excluding them from public life”.
He said in another tweet: “Cis people, on the whole, are just awful and there needs to be a massive state-sponsored programme of re-education”.
The fitness to practise tribunal said that the retweeting of “highly offensive” language by Harrop was wholly inappropriate and brought his profession into disrepute. It condemned the GP for retweeting messages about one woman, but rejected the claim that his attacks amounted to cyberbullying.
However, after the tribunal said that Harrop’s posts were inappropriate for a GP in a public forum, it accepted that the woman called “a venomous transphobic bigot” had not taken any personal offence and that Harrop had been joking with his posts.
In a statement, Harrop, a GP in Liverpool, said: “I am not transgender myself but I am a fervent supporter of transgender rights.”
The hearing was also told that in one tweet Harrop used the term “terfs”, which stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminists, and said that they “dress up their hatred and bigotry towards trans people in a veil of genuine concerns re safety and civil, intellectual debate, but in truth it’s complete nonsense. Terfs hate Trans. Simple as that”.
While Harrop told his followers that the campaigns of those he opposed “should be brought to an end, by whatever means necessary”, the tribunal decided that he had meant only “legal and legitimate” means.
The tribunal found that Harrop’s misconduct had impaired his fitness to practice and suspended his registration for a month.
It said: “The tribunal considered that Harrop’s actions in posting inappropriate tweets over a sustained period of time, in contradiction to the advice he was given, breached fundamental tenets of the profession.
“His actions brought the profession into disrepute, undermining public confidence in the profession and the standards of conduct expected from members of the profession.”
“Cis people, on the whole, are just awful and there needs to be a massive state-sponsored programme of re-education”.
fighting hate with concentration camps?
Ha bloody ha. Such a vile and zealous individual and I’m so glad he’s got his comeuppance. *Well only a suspension but at least he might be less of a nuisance on twitter going forward.
This was the shit he had to deal with:
>One woman who led the complaints against Harrop, who claims that the gay doctor bullied her online, tweeted that he is a “sick degenerate”, claiming “he and his ilk are a danger to children.”
>
>The “journalist and broadcaster” goes on to claim that the work done by UK trans charity Mermaids is “child abuse”, and compares the organisation to “The Nazis”.
>
>She continued: “If witch burning were still a thing the faggots would be piling up around me.” Facing backlash from her followers for using the offensive word, she claimed “it’s not meant as an insult to gay people though.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vevb/adrian-harrop-british-doctors-career-could-be-ended-by-tweets-defending-trans-rights
Disgusting that transphobic and homophobic bullies are allowed a victory, and his patients are denied a critical caregiver at a time when the wait lists for gender-affirming care number in 3-4+ years.
how the fuck is calling a venemous transphobic bigot a venomous transphobic bigot “offensive”.
Just going to point out this article doesn’t mention he tweeted details of someone’s job and address and encouraged people to go and harass them.
Also tweeted info about someone’s children’s school, claimed they were only angry because of their period, used mysoginistic slurs, attacked people for their religion.
All of which, you know, happens here on the daily. But the issue is using his position as a doctor to promote these views. Very deserved suspension, particularly as he showed no ability to reflect and learn from it which is literally all he had to do to avoid this.
Can’t be having a GP be pro-trans, we might actually get decent healthcare on the NHS!
Aye keep up the downvotes, I know, you aren’t allowed to criticise the NHS even when it is shite.
Harrop has bought into the idea that if you don’t agree with someone then you can’t respect them- so he sees disagreement as hatred rather than an opportunity to exchange ideas.
Everything I’ve seen and read about this man tells me he himself cannot respect anyone who doesn’t follow his specific line of gender politics, and seems to have a real problem with women.
No they were uspended for leaking personal information and inciting harassment. But sure pretend its because people hate trans people. Hes a hateful bigot who uses fighting bigotry to allow him to insult ‘the right people’