Mick Hartley

At least some doctors are speaking out about that ridiculous BMA vote on the Supreme Court ruling:

The British Medical Association has been accused of “destroying trust in medicine” and perpetuating “medical misogyny” after its members condemned the Supreme Court’s ruling on sex….

Dr Louise Irvine, co-chair of the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender, said: “­It is really worrying for female patients to think that doctors are seriously arguing that sex is not a clear-cut category in healthcare. Doctors have to recognise sex in order to be able to practise medicine properly and safely.

“As a doctor, you need to know sex for accurate diagnoses. Sex matters for NHS service provision and single-sex wards. It is misogynistic to negate or ignore women’s rights. Medical misogyny is a huge problem. The profession has a long, long history of misogyny. Now the BMA is making out that sex is a nebulous concept and category. If doctors don’t understand sex then I don’t think they should be doctors.”

Biology in Medicine, a group of doctors who campaign for patients to be treated according to their sex, said: “Activists are destroying trust and integrity in our profession. The denial of the biological reality of sex by the BMA is the culmination of a few activists infiltrating key BMA committees and forums.”…

Irvine urged other clinicians to “reassure patients that motion does not represent the views of the majority of doctors”.

She added: “The BMA say the Supreme Court ruling is scientifically illiterate, but they are the ones being scientifically illiterate because their motion implies that sex is not binary. That is unscientific: sex is binary. There are only two sexes; there is no third sex. They are revealing their own ignorance.”

And…a Times poll: