Another formerly serious institution in America has gone woke.
The American Medical Association, a professional association and lobbying group for physicians and medical students, issued a report in June calling for eliminating biological sex on birth certificates.
The policy change is being promoted on WebMD social media, which is why it’s suddenly garnering more attention.
The American Medical Association’s formal statement on the matter is filled with woke jargon and pregnant with left-wing ideological views.
“Designating sex on birth certificates as male or female, and making that information available on the public portion, perpetuates a view that sex designation is permanent and fails to recognize the medical spectrum of gender identity,” Dr. Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, chairman-elect of the AMA’s board, said. “This type of categorization system also risks stifling an individual’s self-expression and self-identification and contributes to marginalization and minoritization.”
This from someone whose website describes her as a board-certified doctor of internal medicine in Atlanta and adjunct associate professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.
So, is this about individual “self-expression” or science?
The AMA did not suggest stripping biological sex from the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth, which relays information to the government for statistical purposes. Instead, this change would apply to the birth certificate, which also includes information about...