BBC removes trans charities from support page

This should give strength to the arm of anyone challenging these groups being signposted within schools. Now when you're saying "please don't send students to mermaids" you can add "big organisations like the BBC have started withdrawing x, y, z lobby groups from their advice pages due to the tremendous controversy around them". Once one or 2 big orgs start backtracking, smaller ones get nervous and try to keep up. No one wants to be caught out on the wrong side of history, and the right side of history was never the one sterilising gay, lesbian, and autistic children.

I've just seen there's another FOI request about this.
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/minutes_from_meeting_resulting_i

Reply due from the BBC by 12th August.

Request made by someone representing Gendered Intelligence and Gender GP. It seems everyone wants to know why the BBC have made this change.

How will they explain 'I am Leo'?

Yes I do get the impression they are seeking to disassociate themselves so they will be on the “right side of history”. Then they will tell everyone how they were one of the first big organisations to “do the right thing”; any others who follow now are “inspired” by them. In fact, the BBC were “against this all along and others were just so slow to catch on!” The BBC “leading the way!”
Friggin Animal Farm again.

This is really huge!

You know what though - when the heroes that have worked so hard to fix this, have fixed it, we're all going to be gaslit and told that "it was never that bad". "the BBC would never have promoted that," etc.

I'll remember, though. You lot will remember.

This is the lot of feminism. every feminist position that is fought for is considered to be insane, demanding, deranged, selfish, bitter and wrong - till it is won; then it is considered to be so manifestly reasonable that no one believes it was every fought for, in the teeth of violent opposition.

I think you're right on the money there. Given how snottily the BBC have responded to any complaint I've ever made about their coverage, that's bollocks. They are going to get a big backlash for dropping Mermaids. They would not have done that just because some readers and viewers complained.

I don’t for a second think complaints have anything to do with it. We’ve been complaining for years about the BBC more or less advertising for Mermaids and nothing has been done. I think a bloody great torpedo is heading for the good ship Mermaids and the BBC are evacuating sharpish. There have been rumblings of something big waiting to pop for a while and the BBC have just found out and shat themselves, I’d put money on it.

... as a bunch of Northerners put it.

It feels like a rather large tremor.

Just caught up with this. Really good news. The tanker is turning.

I don't care why it's been removed, I'm just glad that it's gone.

Many people trust the BBC as a reliable source for facts. Dangerous pseudoscience like pink brains has no place within the BBC.

Btw: Hi Susie! (I know you're reading this)

That's frustrating OldCrone

Something big is about to drop isn't it?

I can’t quite believe this

I honestly was preparing myself for it all being put back again with some minor tweaks.

This is a seriously important decision. Recognition that Mermaids are not some benign GOSH-like ‘children’s charity’ but promoters of a particular line of ‘treatment’ that is now finally undergoing intense scrutiny and criticism. Finally, it seems the penny is dropping. Thank f**k for that!

I would be really interested to know the decision making behind this.

Someone tried to find out via FOI, and they refused because:

The information you have requested is excluded from the Act because if held it would be held for the purposes of ‘journalism, art or literature.’ The BBC is therefore not obliged to provide this information to you and will not be doing so on this occasion. Part VI of Schedule 1 to FOIA provides that information held by the BBC and the other public service broadcasters is only covered by the Act if it is held for ‘purposes other than those of journalism, art or literature”. The BBC is not required to supply information held for the purposes of creating the BBC’s output or information that supports and is closely associated with these creative activities.

www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/information_and_support_gender_i#incoming-1606151

I've been reading this twitter thread. Has anyone seen the clown from IT gif? Made me chuckle.

Me too. Tick tock.

Ova

Me too. I doubt this is just because of audience complaints, we have seen on here the dismissive responses the BBC give to complaints. I suspect there is far more to it.

I would be really interested to know the decision making behind this.

Are the BBC cleaning house before a big story drops? Has all the markings of an organisation running its metaphorical shredders hot.
That's what I was wondering.

I'm distraught.

OK, I'm not really

beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1160575&subId=0

£43,000 in 2019, £70,000 in 2018, £12,000 in 2017

Are the BBC cleaning house before a big story drops? Has all the markings of an organisation running its metaphorical shredders hot.

BBC Children in need has given a significant sum to mermaids

www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/children-need-2018-these-are-wakefield-projects-supported-your-donations-213760

Interestingly I can no longer find a reference to this funding on the BBC CIN funding pages

Crumble crumble the walls are coming down