BBC training told journalists to lobby MPs on transgender rights

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Corporation’s impartiality questioned as trainees given lessons on influencing politicians’ views on trans issues

BBC training instructed journalists to lobby politicians and protest for trans rights, raising questions about impartiality.

Trainee journalists were told to use their “magical ally powers” to “influence politicians” and change the minds of the media in favour of rights for people who wish to change gender.

One journalist who attended the training session, run by a trans group, said that it conflicted with the BBC’s code on impartiality and left him questioning whether he was being instructed to break those rules.

Stephen Nolan, a BBC presenter who revealed the training on his show, said that corporation staff “are not protesters, they are journalists”, adding: “If these new impressionable young trainees are being told at the beginning of their BBC careers to be lobbyists, how is your news impartial?”

The course run by Global Butterflies included a slide which told corporation staff to use “their magical ally powers”, and one of those present said that they “were given a lot of different points of how allies could use their influence to affect trans rights for people”.

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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/16/bbc-training-told-journalists-lobby-mps-transgender-rights/

There's a thread on this:

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4570650-bbc-breaching-impartiality

That's outrageous!

Sound illegal

I am staggered that this has not become more of a scandal.

Did the BBC just hand the Government a loaded weapon to use against them?

This could be serious for the BBC, couldn’t it? Maybe that’s actually the reason it’s not more of a scandal. The Government could organise an inquiry into their lack of journalistic ethics, but maybe they’d rather use the threat as leverage with the BBC.

Yep I think you nailed it. Sadly.

There is another article on this on the Telegraph quoting a whistle blower at length:

"“Stories from the ‘gender critical’ – pro-woman, pro-safeguarding – point of view are being pitched by individuals, but they are rejected because the top of news won’t commission them,” the whistleblower said.

“Any story that doesn’t affirm gender ideology originates from outside the news cabal and when it appears it’s always sent upstairs, heavily scrutinised, triple checked – whilst gender affirmative stories go straight to output.

"And there's a complete lack of understanding at the most senior BBC editorial levels that pronoun declarations align with a belief in gender identity ideology.”"

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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/25/bbc-staff-told-150-genders-diversity-training-sessions/

Another thread on the BBC and their regulator, Ofcom below. Ofcom have written a report an impartiality [hollow laugh] without any mention of people who don't believe in gender identity, while massively over-indexing on the opinions of trans people. As Kirkup says , if the beeb take the report as instructive, prepare for their coverage to get a lot worse.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4576052-james-kirkup-on-fallon-fox-the-bbc-and-ofcom