How come C4 have a TWAW Twitter account?

[BeanBagLady]

Channel 4 Pride. C4 LBGT staff network “driving change and celebrating diversity “

Of course celebrating diversity is good. Of course a major company having an employment policy that ‘drives change’ in terms of equality in the workplace, for example, is good.

But is it really C4’s job to sanction a corporate Twitter account that states as it’s policy TWAW, when this is subject to government consultation?

I’m curious really. My own organisation, which is open-minded, inclusive, hot on diversity, would not sanction a corporately branded account that took one particular campaigning direction. Even if it did say “views do not necessarily reflect...”

They are raising money for Mermaids, and campaigned for the Stonewall response to the GRA consultation.

because of Sue Pascoe?

Most major organisations have their own LGBT staff networks. It doesn't mean they're speaking for that organisation.

current thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3425052-Jake-Grafs-new-film-for-mermaids?pg=2

Channel 4 appointed a new 'inclusion consultant' this summer, Sue Pascoe.

Sue Pascoe described her late 'transition' in a piece for the Daily Mail in 2015,
'Master of the Hunt, 54, has cut-price gender reassignment surgery in India - and marks her last day as a man by going bowling and enjoying a burger with her two sons:
Graham Pascoe diagnosed with gender dysphoria in August 2014
While a man, she was master of her local hunt in North Yorkshire
Now Graham has transitioned to Sue and lives as a woman after surgery. She celebrated last day as man with her sons, with a burger and bowling'
here [[www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3163747/Master-Hunt-woman-age-54-marks-day-man-going-bowling-enjoying-burger-sons.html]]

Sue Pascoe is a trans activist with very strong negative views about women's groups, radical feminists etc.
Sue Pascoe is also a rising voice in the Conservative party, trustee of Yorkshire MESAMC with business connections in Leeds

threads:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3331095-Channel-4-appoints-a-new-advisor-on-inclusion

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3383926-Sue-Pascoe

apologies, not sure what happened to the DM link above:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3163747/Master-Hunt-woman-age-54-marks-day-man-going-bowling-enjoying-burger-sons.html

I suspect employing giddy-teenage-girl-identifying Sue Pascoe has something to do with it...

Oh, thank you.
I didn’t know that.

My own company has an LBGT Network / Advisory Group, and it is a really positive thing. There is also a ‘working parents’ group and various others. But the Social Media policy would not allow for partisan political campaigning. The ‘International Society’ would not have been allowed a corporately branded Twitter account promoting Remain (or otherwise), no group would be allowed a company Twitter account campaigning for or against abortion, so why do C4 allow it over the GRA?

Sorry if this has been dealt with already on MN.

Channel 4's position re affirmation of trans ideology pre-dates the appointment of Sue Pascoe of course.

Wiki
'In September 2011, Trans Media Watch and On Road Media launched the Trans Media Action initiative, with support from the BBC and Channel 4. Trans Media Action comprised a series of workshops and other initiatives designed to facilitate understanding between transgender people and journalists. Trans Media Action is now known as All About Trans.'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Media_Watch

thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/a3371942-Trans-Media-Watch-Twitter