You would hope that medical journals were free from political correctness, but if so you would be sadly underestimating the thoroughness with which our intellectual redoubts have been colonised and taken over, so to speak, by people of a certain rather uniform general outlook.
They are the kind of people who use the words equality and equity interchangeably, who believe that poverty is having an income of less than 60 per cent of the median income irrespective of what the median income actually is, that you can have positive discrimination without negative discrimination, and that all differences in outcomes between groups must be the result of social injustice. Their most cherished freedoms are those to take drugs, have abortions and change sex. Of freedom of speech and opinion they are rather less certain; but they have a tendency to discover rights whose existence was unsuspected until quite recently.
