Tom Clownfish elected as British Medical Association chair

Strange how you only care when it comes to people who are trans tho. Probs just a coincidence.

I didn't say they were minors, I said young people. Adults can be young. I find cosmetic surgery a very problematic area. Lots of money making opportunities from making people unhappy with their looks and promising them the earth.

I don’t like cosmetic surgery for any girls and young women. I think I actually did talk a colleague out of a breast enlargement once, though maybe she just wasn’t that into the idea - I wasn’t really trying to persuade, I was just horrified. Equally horrified when a young female cousin had a bilateral mastectomy in order to present as more masculine. It all looks like self harm to me.

If you were in the slightest bit informed, you would know that the UK doesn't do trans surgeries with anyone who isn't an adult. Sadly you're not at all concerned about cisgender girls having elective surgery.

As a BMA member, I certainly wasn't offered an opportunity to vote. Many others have said the same.

There was an excellent interview on Times Radio on Friday with a doctor complaining the BMA had been taken over by student type activists and are an embarrassment to the profession

I left the BMA. I joined the HCSA not an option for everyone I know but at least it’s a trade union. You just can’t argue with stupid. 😞

Can I just say, OP, I adore the nickname Tom Clownfish? 😁

Multilayered!

The BMA is just one more 'captured' trade union amongst so many others, but a lot of people think that the 'British Medical Association' is some kind of serious national governing body which can speak with authority on medical issues.

So when TRAs say 'Look, even the British Medical Association disagrees with Cass', it carries more weight than it should.

I would like to think that people like you who have egged vulnerable confused young people on to have unnecessary and irreversible surgery and to take hormones in quantities their bodies have not evolved to cope with, leaving them as infertile, lifelong medical patients with poor sexual response, reduced quality of life and shortened life expectancy might one day look back and feel shame, but I'm not holding my breath.

Dr Ruth Pearce (not a medical doctor) along with other non-medical academics (including Sally Hines) co-authored an article advocating that trans-identifying females should be able to take take testosterone while pregnant despite the proven and potential risks to the unborn child.

This is not a person whose opinions on the Cass Report should be taken seriously 🙄

More details on Dr Pearce, as collated by Glinner.
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/what-fresh-hell-is-this

And don’t forget the ones who advocate for castration, such as those lovely men at WPATH…

I also left the BMA last year, very glad I did.

I think there are doctors stuck in the same trap that Helen Joyce raises about the parents of trans children. If they don’t keep claiming what they have done and said is right they will have to face up to the lifelong harm they have done to vulnerable children.
They have to be right because being wrong will shatter their self image as a moral being in a sea of bigots. They have, perhaps subconsciously, tied their identity to this issue and now they have to maintain their position or question themselves.

Bee likes to come into threads, drop bullshit "evidence" to tell us why we are wrong, then clearly flies off to visit rainbows.

@BeeSouriante how did you acquire your sex? You’ve forgotten to tell us on the other thread.

Me too unfortunately. If they can lose all sense of reality when it comes to sex and gender and in particular the treatment for children then what else have they also been blindly going along with?

Ah dear, dear Ruthie.

Not a scooby.

The BMA used to be a highly respected organisation, which I’d expect. I am stunned by its behaviour over the past few years, showing absolute lack of concern for children or for medical ethics, in deference to a destructive ideology.

I feel very much less automatic respect for doctors now.

Yeah, I mean
Ruth Pearce, healthcare activist, punk musician, and feminist researcher, specialising in transgender studies and community development, transgender studies and community development
or
Hilary Cass,* *Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, who is or has been chair of the British Academy of Childhood Disability, established the Rett Clinic for children, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital for 15 years and honorary physician in paediatric disability at the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust...

it's a tricky one all right, Miss Scarlet. Rock scissors paper to decide who to trust?

Or a transactivist. Remember that children’s safety and health are unimportant. Men must have whatever they want, at whatever cost.

Surely the absolute best way to debunk the Cass review is to release the adult data showing all the wonderful success stories? Anyone got a link to that data?

You've missed the joke- TRAs love to tell anyone who stands still long enough that sex isn't a binary, because clownfish can change sex. Then they stick their fingers in their ears and go, "LALALA!" before anyone can point out that humans, unlike clownfish, are not sequential hermaphrodites.