Doctors’ union votes for ‘identity-based care’ despite warning over lawfulness

The doctors’ union has voted in favour of a motion to affirm identity-based care (Alamy/PA) -

The doctors’ union has voted for transgender patients to have “identity-based care” and called for this approach to be embedded into training.

But the British Medical Association (BMA) has been warned the move risks going against the law, after the Supreme Court ruling in April that the terms woman and sex in the 2010 Equality Act “refer to a biological woman and biological sex”.