Resident doctors condemn court ruling on gender

Resident doctors have criticised a recent Supreme Court ruling on gender, calling it scientifically unfounded and harmful to transgender and gender-diverse people.

Medics at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) resident doctors conference in London passed a motion which states that “attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine”.

The court declared that the words “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

The Department of Health and Social Care said on Tuesday that “following the Supreme Court ruling, it is clear healthcare should be based on biology”.

However, the union’s resident doctors conference passed a motion which states: “This meeting condemns the Supreme Court ruling defining the term ‘woman’.”

The motion adds: “We recognise as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender-diverse people.”

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Source: Medscape, 29 April 2025