BMA beclowning themselves over the SC judgement

[Theeyeballsinthesky]

Guess the TRA are still all over the committee then!

did they finish their review of Cass yet?

Okay, given people will insist on dragging people with (sex specific) differences of sexual differentiation into it, let's talk about them. I'm a paediatrician. On the most recent occasion that a baby was born at our hospital who looked to possibly have a DSD (we were 95% sure of the sex), what happened? Did we guess? Did we randomly assign? Or was the baby seen within 24 hours by a paediatric endocrinology consultant who organised ultrasounds and blood tests which absolutely confirmed the baby's sex well before the baby needed to be registered? That last is basically the normal approach in a developed country. In over a quarter of a century of working in paediatrics, 15 of those years as a consultant, I have seen literally one patient for whom it became apparent that the sex recorded at birth may not have been the full story. That's how uncommon it is, in the developed world.

I used to teach a Critical Thinking AS/A2 level. I based it around discussion of current affairs (including, among many topics, the introduction of e-cigarettes, childhood obesity - an issue even 20+ years ago - and the redefinition of torture by the US government). I really enjoyed teaching it.
I discovered that critical thinking ability does not always correlate with general academic ability, that students were never really taught, in any subject, how to construct an essay and that people tend to think that any argument that is not explicitly favourable to their own viewpoint is biased against it.
Of course, if I had been teaching it recently anything gender related would have been strictly embargoed, making a mockery of offering it in the first place.

Of course, if I had been teaching it recently anything gender related would have been strictly embargoed, making a mockery of offering it in the first place.

These bitter little ironies continue to be a feature, not a bug.

I have to say I am very glad I am no longer involved in the training of junior doctors if this is the standard of thinking among them.

It's a depressing thought. As someone who very much is still involved in the teaching of medical students and junior doctors. But, of course, those of us who are biological realists have to be very careful what we say at work, given that both most NHS hierarchies and the GMC are captured.