Interesting response article from the BMJ the journal of the BMA basically making the council look daft:
Puberty blockers: BMA calls for lifting of ban on prescribing to children
A total of seven papers by the York University systematic review group were published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood in April.4 The papers found that the evidence on the use of puberty blockers and hormones in young people with gender related distress was “wholly inadequate, making it impossible to gauge their effectiveness or their effects on mental and physical health.”5 Nick Brown, editor of the Archives of Diseases in Childhood, told The BMJ, “A common thread in the review findings was the breathtaking dearth of quality evidence to guide care in this vulnerable group of young people.”
Brown is adamant that the York research is robust. “All of the systematic reviews underwent expert, independent peer review, and each was revised accordingly. We were, and remain, entirely confident as to their veracity. Counter to claims to the contrary, rigorous methods were adhered to at every step,” Brown told The BMJ.
Brown continued, “Criticisms of the methodology hold no water. The single search strategy used by the York group is far more yielding than the scattergun approach advocated by those still struggling to come to terms with the findings.”
https://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q1722
The BMA vote is a floundering attempt to keep a leaky ship afloat. Without evidence they are going to fail. There is no evidence.