by Shaun Wooller, Daily Mail
The doctor who spearheaded the British Medical Association’s opposition to the UK’s puberty blocker ban has been elected as its new leader.
Dr Tom Dolphin tabled the motion that led to the union controversially lobbying against the findings of the Cass Review into children’s gender services.
The BMA’s governing council sparked fury in July last year when it voted to ‘critique’ the work, without consulting wider members.
This set the BMA apart from the NHS, government and other leading medical organisations who universally backed the study, which took four years to complete and reviewed data from 113,000 children.