This doctor seems to believe that sex is a social construct

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Which is interesting...

Is there a ‘medical condition’ less easy to ‘diagnose’ with precision than sex?

I mean, it’s something the untrained eye can do with almost 100% certainty - at a glance.

Pregnancy tests aren’t that accurate. You can’t diagnose any cancer with that kind of precision. You can’t diagnose HIV or diabetes with anywhere near that accuracy. You can’t even tell if someone who drowned in cold water is dead with certainty.

As we say in Glasgow ‘ahhhh, the wean’

The rest of us just have a look at a person. Clocks what they are
This one spends hours or perhaps days agonising on what , actually I don’t know what
Neither did they

A young Doc confused sex with gender...
must have been on a student type bender
He misdiagnosed
a bloke in fem clothes
And took hours to find her pudenda

I see this supposed doctor is flinging around the old "1 in 15,000 people are intersex so that proves blahblahblah..." figure with abandon.
Aside from the fact that intersex has nothing to do with transgenderism, about 99% of people with the condition are either XX or XY - it's an umbrella term covering a range of conditions affecting the genitals and reproductive system. Many are born with genitals that are recognisably male or female and some don't have their condition diagnosed until adolescence. The most common intersex condition is probably hypospadia, which is a deformity of the penis.
Yes, some intersex people do identify as transgender, but that's their choice; most people with an intersex condition identify as their biological sex.

Now, how come I - an ordinary, nonacademic woman - know more about this than somebody who has supposedly spent years at medical school learning all about biology and anatomy?

I was looking at the further blogs (after the suggestion above) and the really humorous ones about going to the press cos ze wasn't allowed to wear zee's skirt in a gym seemed to go! Pufft!

Shame. I wonder if I was being useless or the monitors have the jungle drums a beating.

She seems like a intelligent but lost soul. Her blog is a mix of gender nonsense, and knitting really. I hope that she finds peace.

It's a little more than nonsense and knitting though. It's coming from someone supposedly already down the path of becoming a health professional.

TornFromTheInside
Olga - please tell me you're not an illiterate optometrist ;-)
Sadly nothing anywhere near as exciting although i am dyslexic!!

It was just me playing on the word 'optimist' and your comment on them being in the medical profession.

I took the liber in assuming you'd figure it! :-)

I know! Love your limerick btw!

Ah, she's clearly not exactly flying through her career, though. She graduated 2011, took 2 years to get fully registered, and is still only allowed to work under close supervision (APS). It isn't the career path of someone 100% healthy, unless they've had 7 kids along the easy. (All public info from the LRMP in the GMC)

I would ignore it. This is not mainstream medical thinking.

*way, not easy.

Oh that's interesting superchill
I only stumbled across the blog as someone suggested I look at her zombie knitting for a project I'm doing!

I did like her zombie knitting.

Yes me too!

I drove very carefully on the A1 to Newcastle for a uni open day. Didn't want to end up in A & E with Dr Craddock on duty. Now there is this one to avoid! Feel very sorry for anyone relying on the hospitals in the area with those two on the loose.

The doctors who are involved in this madness appear to either have APS restrictions (very unusual for a GP trainee) or be suspended already.

This is not something the medical profession are endorsing, there appear to be a few fringe enthusiast, every profession has its oddballs. I'm sure you'd be very safe attending A&E in the North East, these people are being watched.

What is APS restrictions?

Approved Practice Setting - a supported post for very junior junior doctor's, usually in the first year of full registration. They can't do any private work, or work outside that limited scope as a junior doctor. They are monitored. They certainly won't be prescribing hormones to kids.

All mouth and no trousers.

That apostrophe is due to predictive text.

Thanks