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BMA hand-wringing about the Supreme Court ruling

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Opinionpolecat · 30/05/2025 08:37

The BMA have put out a hand-wringing statement about the Supreme Court ruling.
They say "access to care should not be determined by a perceived hierarchy of rights." That's right BMA, men's feelings that "require" them to be on women's wards, in women's changing rooms and women's toilets are not more important than women's need for privacy, dignity, and safety when they are patients or staff in the NHS. You need to wake up to the fact that women have rights too.

They say there is increased pressure on the NHS because of the need to find alternative accommodation for trans patients, all because men can no longer be placed on women's wards. They say "we support informed, respectful, discussion by medical professionals of the best ways to manage individual patients, taking a patient-centred approach, which respects their dignity, autonomy, and human rights". It's a shame they didn't take this approach when it came to respecting the dignity, autonomy, and human rights of women to single sex spaces.

They talk about a BMA report which showed high levels of transphobia experienced by NHS staff, but completely fail to mention the high levels of sexism, sexual harassment, and sexual assault experienced by female doctors and medical students, collected by organizations like Surviving in Scrubs. They also fail to mention the ingrained sexism within the BMA, which was revealed by the Romney report, and which they clearly are still perpetuating.

They say "our commitment to supporting our trans and non-binary members, and the wider community of medical professionals and patients remains unwavering." It's a shame they have no commitment to support female BMA members, the wider community of female medical professionals and female patients whose right to single sex spaces had been taken away from them, and continues to be denied to them by the NHS.

https://www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/statement-of-support-for-doctors-affected-by-the-supreme-court-ruling

Statement of support for doctors affected by the supreme court ruling

Statement of support for doctors affected by the supreme court ruling

We reaffirm our commitment to supporting trans and non-binary members, and the wider community of medical professionals and patients

https://www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/statement-of-support-for-doctors-affected-by-the-supreme-court-ruling

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Helleofabore · 30/05/2025 09:44

I really want organisations to stop framing additional privileges as human rights. Far too much emphasis is placed on the safety and dignity of one group to the detriment of other groups safety and dignity. They continue to ignore the lack of symmetry.

Helleofabore · 30/05/2025 09:42

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 30/05/2025 09:25

In 2022, a BMA report in collaboration with GLADD revealed that almost half (49%) of trans respondents working in the NHS had directly suffered from transphobia at least once in the past two years and almost a quarter (24%) had experienced verbal attacks or name calling.

as noted above, I would be interested in the proportion of women staff who had experienced sexism, and the overall percentage of staff who have experienced name calling.

And was transphobia misgendering and being recognised as male in instances when sex matters?

heathspeedwell · 30/05/2025 09:25

Looking forward to seeing what Hannah Barnes has to say about this. I really think it's time that doctors got together and booted these few rogue TAs out of the union. They keep pretending to represent the entire BMA and yet time after time it turns out they have made statements that were never put to a vote of the members.
They are bringing the entire medical profession into disrepute.
And what happened to their review of the Cass review? I thought it was supposed to be published last year.

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 30/05/2025 09:25

In 2022, a BMA report in collaboration with GLADD revealed that almost half (49%) of trans respondents working in the NHS had directly suffered from transphobia at least once in the past two years and almost a quarter (24%) had experienced verbal attacks or name calling.

as noted above, I would be interested in the proportion of women staff who had experienced sexism, and the overall percentage of staff who have experienced name calling.

https://www.bma.org.uk/media/6340/bma-sogi-report-2-nov-2022.pdf

TheOtherRaven · 30/05/2025 09:24

It is so terrible that women have rights too, that can't be obliterated to indulge men.

I mean we don't want the wretched sex class to have privacy, dignity, equality, that kind of thing, but the horrible SC made us.

Gagagardener · 30/05/2025 09:07

@Opinionpolecat Hope you're going to send a version of your critique to BMA!