BMA members resign in revolt over transgender children stance

Transgender people and their supporters protest against a ban on puberty blockers that was recommended after a four-year review WIKTOR SZYMANOWICZ photo

by Eleanor Hayward
August 26 2024

Doctors are leaving the British Medical Association in revolt at its opposition to the Cass review, amid claims that the union has been taken over by an ideologically driven “vocal minority”.

Hundreds of members, including NHS clinical leaders and former presidents of medical royal colleges, have gone public with their “dismay” at BMA leaders for voting to reject the Cass review into the care of transgender children and reverse a ban on puberty blockers.

Some have resigned from the union after up to 50 years as members, and others said that the BMA’s “abysmal” leadership was “increasingly bonkers” and “ideologically captured”.

The rift began on July 31 when the BMA announced that it would lobby against the implementation of the Cass review, a four-year