The stupidity displayed by NHS Fife throughout this saga would put halfwits to shame. On Wednesday Isla Bumba, the health board’s head of “Equalities and Human Rights”, told the tribunal that she could not be sure of her own sex. “No one knows what their chromosomes are,” she said, a development which may surprise any woman who has, say, given birth.
Until recently, however, this was a statement that was simultaneously obtuse and orthodox. Multiple Scottish politicians have said similar things. Meanwhile, Upton says “I’m biologically female”, though we should also acknowledge that “the term biologically female or biologically male is completely nebulous”. I remind you that this person is a qualified physician.