“If I if I get struck off as a psychologist and I’ve got to go and stack shelves in Tesco, then at least I know I did the right thing. I can’t do this anymore.”
Dr P is a clinical psychologist and an expert witness in child protection. She has a severely disabled daughter in her twenties. Dr P does not believe trans women are women and has written extensively about this and her fight to get same-sex intimate care for her daughter, something the NHS appears unable to guarantee.
Dr P writes with passion and professional conviction on twitter, calling out the incoherence of gender ideology and highlighting its destructive consequences. As a result, she has become a target for trans rights activists. Dr P does not use her real name online. Her profile photo is one of the warrior women from Black Panther.
A notorious TRA has already discovered Dr P’s identity and made a complaint about what he calls her “transphobic” tweets to the Health and Care Professions Council, Dr P’s professional body. The HCPC began a fitness to practice investigation into Dr P on 25 June last year. She still does not know the outcome.
Now Dr P’s been doxxed. Two TRA accounts, one belonging to Freda Wallace, have posted a photo of Dr P, her full name, and, most worryingly, her home postcode. Dr P asked X to remove the tweets. It refused, so last week Dr P made a written complaint to the Metropolitan police using an online form. Dr P told the Met she wanted someone to have a word with Wallace and get him to take his posts down. Dr P is worried that one or more TRAs might use the information Wallace posted to target her home. “These men… are dangerous,” she says. “They are violent. A lot of them are psychopaths…. and I’m particularly worried because my daughter is disabled. And I just, I just thought, if they firebomb my house or something – how do we get her out, you know?”
Very transphobic
Dr P was away from home on Friday morning, working outside London. As she was waiting for a new client, she was called by someone who described himself as “PC Humphreys” from Lewisham Police Station. During their conversation Humphreys asked Dr P what she might have posted that would attract the ire of trans rights activists. Although she can’t remember her exact words, she “essentially” said “men can’t become women”. Humphreys’ reaction was apparently “instantaneous”. He told Dr P she was being “very transphobic” and that “gender is a protective characteristic. You’re not allowed to be transphobic”.
The conversation developed into an argument, not about the doxxing, but whether or not Dr P had been transphobic, the nature of transphobia, the Forstater and Supreme Court ruling and Dr P’s concerns about privacy and her disabled daughter. Dr P was taken aback by Humphreys’ attitude. “It was like literally like talking to a trans rights activist and not a police officer,” she said. “He just would not budge”.
After 15 minutes of back and forth, Dr P demanded the officer’s name and badge number and told him she would be making a complaint, asking him “how can I have any confidence that you would treat this properly and keep me and my family safe?”
Humphreys allegedly began goading her, saying that if she complained “nothing will happen”. This, said Dr P, shook her to the core. “I felt like I was living in some sort of banana republic” she said. “I didn’t feel like I was reporting something in a mature, functioning democracy anymore. It felt profoundly destabilising.”
Society is Failing
After the call, Dr P wondered if it was a coincidence that someone so obviously captured by gender ideology was assigned to her case. I asked her to summarise why she found the episode so concerning.
“Women feel this”, she told me. “We are frightened, Nick. We are frightened. I keep saying this to my husband. For you… it’s more removed. And I just felt like I wasn’t living in a proper functioning democracy… I just felt, for the first time, that our society is failing. The functions and the institutions have failed. And what’s so frightening is that we can’t see it. This policeman did not know his responsibility to keep me as a member of the public safe. He was more interested ideology than keeping me safe.”
Dr P has raged hard for a number of years against what she sees as a nutty set of beliefs, without any professional support. “As far as I know, I’m the only clinical psychologist in the country – there’s 13,000 of us – but I’m the only one who’s saying anything that goes against this ideology, and I’ve dared to put my head up above the parapet, and this is the result. This is the result. That’s what’s so frightening about this. It’s the failure of the institutions. The guardrails are just collapsing… Women and children are not protected. There’s literally nobody watching our backs now.”
When Dr P returned from work on Friday, she went to Lewisham police station to complain about PC Humphreys and repeat her request that the police do something about Freda Wallace and his tweets. On Saturday Dr P was called by a DS Tokar, who identified herself as PC Humphreys’ line manager. Tokar apologised for Humphreys’ behaviour, and said she would be “taking it up with him”.
It seems Freda Wallace is well known to the police. DS Tokar promised Dr P the Met’s “colleagues in Manchester would be investigating him”, though would not be more specific. Tokar also offered some security protections for Dr P’s family. Finally, Tokar told Dr P that she had been assigned a new investigating officer and he would call her on Sunday.
He didn’t, but Dr P has since had some contact with the Met’s “Crime Management Service” which has partially reassured her. At the time of writing, Dr P’s image, her home postcode and her full name remain in the public domain. She is already under enough pressure due to the ongoing investigation by the HCPC, but she refuses to be cowed, telling me: “If I if I get struck off as a psychologist and I’ve got to go and stack shelves in Tesco, then at least I know I did the right thing. I can’t do this anymore.”
I have asked the Met for comment and more information.
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