Have MSPs considered the harm the gender reform bill could cause?

I am a doctor who has been acutely aware throughout my career of the possibility of doing harm with good intentions. The world-famous Dr Spock sold millions of books from the 1950s which recommended putting babies to sleep on their front. It seemed sensible at the time – surely they would be less likely to choke on vomit? But while the advice might have been well intended it was wrong. We now know, through research, that it is safer if babies sleep on their backs. Thousands of babies died from sudden infant death syndrome because of this wrong advice. We did not test Dr Spock’s assumption for years – and we did not know we were doing harm until we did the research. 

In a similar way, the Scottish government has now passed the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill in order to, as they put it, make it easier and quicker for transgender individuals to change their legal sex.