BBC is at it again

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53894172

An article on period poverty in UK schools, that uses the word girls only once (in a quote from Plan International). It’s all about children and people struggling with period supplies.

Although when it's about fishy-smelling vaginas, they don't seem to have any problem with the word women: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53901800

(And, no, I'm not being offended that they point out that a fishy smell is associated with bacterial imbalance in women's vaginas.)

Well well well who'd have thought it.

Note they have chosen a student note about periods that says protect trans kids and be kind.

Do you think the subeditor forgot to erase the last remaining ‘girl’ from the period article? It does seem odd that they’ve purposely avoided using it throughout except for that one instance!

To be fair to the BBC, the government guidance is also gender neutral.
www.gov.uk/government/publications/period-products-in-schools-and-colleges/period-product-scheme-for-schools-and-colleges-in-england

The scheme is to provide period products for all learners who need them, including "girls, non-binary and transgender learners".

"girls, non-binary and transgender learners"

Yes, girls. Not children or people. Girls first and foremost, including girls who think of themselves as something different.

What data should a school draw upon in order to work out how many of its pupils might require period products?

A previous version of the article had a picture with various phrases about 'period poverty' and one of the phrases was Protect Trans Kids. I wonder why they changed it? I have no screen shots, it didn't occur to me.

@Poota

A previous version of the article had a picture with various phrases about 'period poverty' and one of the phrases was Protect Trans Kids. I wonder why they changed it? I have no screen shots, it didn't occur to me.

It's still there, in all its glorious irrelevance.

Together with a wonderfully incoherent sentence: staff delivered products to the homes of pupils who were eligible for free school meals.

"If the reader has to stop to work out what the sentence means - it's piss-poor journalism." Said to me by the Editor of the Radio Times, when it was still owned by the BBC.

Only women bleed

Teaching children that everyone can experience a period is madness not to mention completely untrue and contradictory to what children are taught in science and biology ? Only biological females have periods , PERIOD

I really worry about the implications of such vague language all the time.

A girl who hasn't started her periods by 16 needs a medical check up.

By removing the word girls, girls might just assume they are amongst the people/young people/learners who don't get them.

I've complained to the BBC before about this and got standard inclusive email nonsense response back.

Bloody oppression top trumps all the time. Can't possibly highlight any other demograohic having issues as a class.

Does it say 'boys bleed 2 [too]' or 'boys bleed?' on the bottom left of that image?

I mean, yeah, if they get cut, of course they bleed. Menstruate? Nah.

Have there been any attempts to target the teaching of biology in schools?
Facts are at odds with all the rubbish being promoted.

@itsor

Does it say 'boys bleed 2 [too]' or 'boys bleed?' on the bottom left of that image?

I mean, yeah, if they get cut, of course they bleed. Menstruate? Nah.

Yeah, right next to the picture of a tampon and a tampon-sized pad with wings - and a string. Not, I suspect, drawn by a woman, let alone a schoolgirl.

Staff delivered products to the homes of pupils who were eligible for free school meals.

Not to ALL pupils eligible for free meals, one assumes. But however did they decide which ones?

However indeed