Since the UK Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that the word “woman” in equality legislation really does mean woman, other decisive steps have been made in the national trans debate.
First, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said—albeit unconvincingly—that he was pleased with the ruling. Then, it was announced as a follow-up also to last year’s Cass review that the National Health Service will now test all children who believe they are transgender for neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism and ADHD. Medics will also evaluate each child’s sexual development, including possible same-sex attractions, whereas such individuals were previously misdiagnosed, and at great cost.
But efforts are also underway to undermine what campaigners described as the “incredibly worrying” Supreme Court verdict.
A group of British Medical Association doctors said over the weekend that the ruling on biological sex was “scientifically illiterate” and “biologically nonsensical,” which suggests they could disrupt new trans guidelines in the near future.
The union’s wing of resident doctors, representing about 50,000 junior doctors, voted to condemn the Supreme Court decision which they claimed “will cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary and intersex communities in this country.”
MCC Brussels Director Frank Furedi noted in response that it was “very scary to know that some of these idiots might be treating you or a member of your family.” He added:
If you don’t know the difference between a man and a woman you should not have a licence to practice medicine.
One effort to challenge the ruling through the courts had received over £250,000 (€295,000) from more than 7,000 donors as of Tuesday. The ‘Good Law Project’ campaign says it has “put together a legal team involving several KCs and at least one trans barrister” and will be “supported by heavyweight policy specialists in equalities law,” claiming:
This is no small undertaking—but, for the trans community in Britain, it is literally existential.
After one embarrassing U-turn, the Labour government is now likely to say as little about the future developments surrounding this ruling as possible.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
