Junior engineers say it won’t collapse
Oh really?
Doctors brand Supreme Court trans ruling ‘scientifically illiterate’
Really? Then why haven’t all doctors always known that men are women if they say they are?
The subhead perhaps hints at a reason:
Junior medics claim binary divide between sex and gender ‘has no basis in science’
Ah. Junior medics. The ones who don’t want to be called harsh names by their friends.
The British Medical Association’s (BMA) resident doctors – previously called junior doctors – have voted to “condemn” the judgment, which ruled that trans women were not legally women.
Of course “legally” is not the same as “medically” so one wonders why doctors are butting in anyway. The Supreme Court is not a medical body, and ruling that men are not legally women is not a medical ruling.
The doctors passed a motion at a conference on Saturday criticising the ruling as “biologically nonsensical”.
The doctors claimed a binary divide between sex and gender “has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender-diverse people”, according to a motion seen by The Times.
And yet, men don’t get pregnant, and men don’t get woken up at midnight to nurse the baby. Neither legally nor medically.
The wing of BMA, which represents about 50,000 doctors in training, said it “condemns scientifically illiterate rulings from the Supreme Court, made without consulting relevant experts and stakeholders, that will cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary and intersex communities in this country”.
Notice any stakeholders missing? Yeah: women. It’s funny how women are always missing from these discussions.
Helen Joyce, the director of advocacy at Sex Matters, told The Times: “It’s terrifying that a group of young doctors, all of whom have been through several years of advanced education and training in biology, have been indoctrinated by trans activism to such an extent that they claim categorisation by sex – male and female – is ‘reductive’ and has ‘no basis in science or medicine’.
“These junior doctors are an embarrassment to their profession. What next: young geographers claiming that the Earth is flat, or junior vets who think it’s bigoted to suggest that cats can’t identify as dogs?”
Planets are lima beans! Oak trees are iguanas! Oceans are ginger ale!
But nothing like the ‘real world harm’ caused by a rapist-turned-drag-queen loose in a womens’ facility.
(Or maybe that should read: caused by a rapist-turned-drag-queen erect in a womens’ facility.)
Doctors in training… maybe finishing their training should involve them being taught about sex, and sex differences. I wouldn’t want someone so sexually illiterate working on me.
One of the classic argumentative styles of the era goes like this. I’m going to number it out because I’m a nerd.
1. Your opponent says X. But you believe Y.
2. State, or at least imply, that these options exist in binary opposition such that either one or the other must be the case.
3. Restate X such that it is very specific. Keep Y vague for now.
4. Offer a variety of undercutting defeaters for X. “It’s more complicated than that,” is an evergreen attack because most things are more complicated than the short, specific statements to which you have reduced your opponent’s position.
5. After a while at this, declare X to be refuted.
6. State, or at least imply, that Y has therefore been proven.
7. Now that Y has allegedly been proven, get more specific.
I first noticed this from Christian apologists back in the 00s. They’d argue something like this: “Materialists think that the only things that exist are matter and energy, but, patterns exists, and they’re neither. Ideas exist and they’re neither. It’s more complicated than that. Now that we’ve established that materialism is false, let me tell you about a mystical spiritual dimension that our eternal souls inhabit after our deaths. I trust you’ll have no reason to doubt it since the only alternative has fallen.”
Once you start seeing this argumentative pattern you can’t stop seeing it.
That’s very good. Nerdy numbering is useful.
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I’ve read elsewhere that(and sorry I can’t recall where), that the BMA is increasingly being taken over by gender activists, especially at younger levels, to the extent that doctors actually rooted in reality are choosing to resign or disengage. Expect more of this, rather than less.