Mick Hartley

The BMA beclowns itself. From the Times:

Doctors at the British Medical Association have voted to condemn the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex as “scientifically illiterate” and “biologically nonsensical”.

The union’s wing of resident doctors — formerly known as junior doctors — passed a motion at a conference on Saturday criticising the ruling that a woman is defined by biological sex.

The doctors claimed that a binary divide between sex and gender “has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender-diverse people”.

I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. Nor, I imagine, do these doctors. A binary divide between sex and gender? Is that like the binary divide between vegetables and cooking?

The branch of the British Medical Association (BMA) — representing about 50,000 younger doctors — said it “condemns scientifically illiterate rulings from the Supreme Court, made without consulting relevant experts and stakeholders, that will cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary and intersex communities in this country”.

It is, embarrassingly, the BMA who are scientifically illiterate here. Doctors, ffs! Though they have history:

It follows the union’s decision last summer to lobby against the Cass Review and to call for an end to the ban on puberty blockers for children identifying as transgender.

Sex Matters, the campaign group, accused the doctors of being an “embarrassment to their profession” and said it is “terrifying” that people who have undergone years of medical training can claim there is “no basis” for biological sex.

The motion, seen by The Times, was passed on Saturday at an annual conference of the BMA’s resident doctors, and represents the stance of the BMA’s junior wing — with the wider BMA union not adopting the policy until it has been voted on at an annual meeting in June….

Helen Joyce, the director of advocacy at Sex Matters, said: “It’s terrifying that a group of young doctors, all of whom have been through several years of advanced education and training in biology, have been indoctrinated by trans activism to such an extent that they claim categorisation by sex — male and female — is ‘reductive’ and has ‘no basis in science or medicine’.

“These junior doctors are an embarrassment to their profession. What next: young geographers claiming that the Earth is flat, or junior vets who think it’s bigoted to suggest that cats can’t identify as dogs?"

If nothing else it shows the power of the gender cult. And the way that unions get taken over by the ideologically driven.