Biased BBC article promoting Lily Madigan

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ferntwist · 01/12/2017 10:55

BBC Newsbeat reporter Michael Baggs has taken it on himself to launch Lily Madigan's career as an MP with a shockingly biased article today.

www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/42167494/lily-madigan-i-want-to-be-labours-first-transgender-mp

Anne Ruzylo is described as having been dismissed because of 'perceived transphobia' - she resigned because she was harassed for her feminism! Baggs also gets the CLP wrong. Most importantly, Anne Ruzylo is not given any right to reply.

In fact, the article doesn't interview a single feminist or a single Labour women who is concerned about males taking women's opportunities, but gives huge prominence to an unpublished letter from women who have already benefitted from the Jo Cox scheme.

Michael Baggs casts Lily as a brave battler against transphobia - entirely missing the real story here, which is that women are being bullied from speaking out against the loss of their opportunities to men.

I am absolutely gobsmacked that such a biased, unbalanced puff piece on such a divisive wannabe politician has made it onto the BBC.

Really makes you think there's something going on, doesn't it?

If you would like to complain, here's where to do it. Takes a minute.
ssl.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/?lang=en&reset=&uid=494878240

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Thelilywhite · 01/12/2017 11:31

My husband just showed me this. He is raging. Peak peak trans. We will both complain to the BBC thanks for the info
reallybadidea

Datun · 01/12/2017 11:27

If anyone’s on Twitter can they tweet the BBC with Jimmy Savile‘s apprentice thing?

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ferntwist · 01/12/2017 11:21

Nice one reallybad and langcleng. Damn right Anne could sue for libel - this is absolutely shocking reporting from the nation's broadcaster.

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LangCleg · 01/12/2017 11:18

Done:

This article is inaccurate and biased. Anne Ruzylo resigned because the level of harassment from transactivists meant she could not do her job. Her entire CLP committee also resigned in support of her. The CLP is incorrectly identified. No space has been given to the alternative, FEMINIST, viewpoint from within or without the Labour Party. Lily is not a woman under the current legislation - no GRC, no surgery, no hormones. Lily could be legally a woman if the proposed changes to the GRA become law. The Jo Cox programme is acting as if this law were already on statute. How can anyone reading understand what the argument is over if you, the public broadcaster, don't tell them?

reallybadidea · 01/12/2017 11:12

You can respond directly on Twitter too mobile.twitter.com/BBCNewsbeat?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Saying Anne Ruzylo was dismissed is libellous, surely?

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ferntwist · 01/12/2017 10:57

This article needs a major re-write or to be taken down immediately. What has happened to the BBC?
I'm fuming.

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