I hope the BMA are taking note of this, although given their level of arrogance and misogyny they probably aren't. Luckily for them they've got the resident doctors' potential industrial action to distract everyone from their inability to understand biology and the law. At the recent ARM they chose to pass this:
70.
Motion by LONDON REGIONAL COUNCIL: That this meeting calls on the BMA:-
i) to affirm the right of all LGBTQ+ patients and staff to identity-based care and working conditions - defined as care and policies that actively account for the individual’s lived, intersecting identities (including sexuality, gender, neurodivergence, race, and cultural background);
ii) to produce pan-UK guidance and a lobbying strategy to embed this principle into NHS equality standards, training frameworks, and institutional policies.
Interesting how neurodivergence, race and cultural background are now somehow added to LGBTQ+.
They didn’t seem to get round to these other tabled motions:
EM21
That this meeting notes the Supreme Court judgment of 16 April 2025 which clarified that the protected characteristic of “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 means biological sex.
The Court also clarified the rights of people with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment to be protected from discrimination and harassment.
This meeting notes the Public Sector Equality Duty obligation on NHS and health care organisations, unions and employers to balance the rights of all those with a protected characteristic to be protected from unlawful discrimination under the Equality Act.
This meeting calls on the BMA to review its policies to ensure they are compliant with the Equality Act, taking account of the legal clarification of the Supreme Court that “sex” in the Equality Act means biological sex.
EM22.
Following from the Supreme Court ruling definition of a ‘woman’ with respect to the Equality Act as a binary biological sex identity, this meeting recognises the evidence-based definition of sex as a bimodal spectrum of identities, which are determined by factors including but not limited to chromosomes, gene expression, hormonal profiles, external genitalia, internal reproductive organs, and secondary sexual characteristics. We recognise that one individual may present various combinations of all these characteristics. Therefore, this meeting:-
i)calls on the BMA to assert its position on affirming the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals to live their lives with dignity, and respect;
ii) believes that the Supreme Court’s ruling defining the term ‘woman’ with respect to the Equality Act as being based on ‘biological sex’, referring to a person who ‘was at birth of the female sex’, is not based on scientific evidence;
iii)notes the exclusion of expert scientific and transgender voices during the Supreme Court evidence gathering to reach its final ruling on the definition of a ‘woman’.
EM23.
That this meeting believes that the BMA should act in accordance with UK law. While recognising the rights of all people within the UK under the Equality Act, we note that the UK Supreme Court has stated that “woman” means biological woman. This meeting calls on the BMA to:-
i) accept formally the UK supreme court judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd;
ii)acknowledge the rights of women to sex-based rights;
iii)acknowledge the rights of people with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment to be free from discrimination;
iv)work towards ways to manage the conflicts in rights that might have arisen from the judgment, including ensuring freedom of speech in this area.
You can find all these in the Wednesday document of motions passed at ARM 2025 linked on this page:
https://www.bma.org.uk/what-we-do/annual-representative-meeting/highlights-from-arm-2025