A Favour please - Save Women's Sport and BBC Impartiality

[Mollyollydolly]

If you've got the energy do you mind complaining about this tweet from BBC Sport. They've done this before, I suspect whoever is running their twitter account is a trans right activist. They've hidden dozens of replies supporting Amelia Strickler who's criticised the new transgender sports policy. The vast majority are perfectly reasonable.

Maya Forstater went to court and proved that GC views are worthy of respect in a democratic society. The BBC is supposed to be impartial, I fundamentally disagree with whoever is running this account hiding perfectly reasonable replies in the name of the BBC.

After this week it's really pissed me off. I've had enough, it's our BBC, I spent my working life there, I will not have some arsehole in BBC Sport censoring women, it's against everything the BBC supposedly stands for. It might seem trivial but it's just a perfect example of how they stop us speaking.

It's always worth complaining management do look at them.

You can make a complaint here:- www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint

The tweet in question is here:- twitter.com/BBCSport/status/1618327845964488707

And here's a screenshot.

Done. I had intended to do so. Thanks for the reminder.

Done. I was disgusted when I saw that this morning

But the BBC isn't impartial. It hasn't been for years.

Then we complain, and we complain and we complain until they listen.

Done.

as an aside...

Graham Linehan
@Glinner
Well now.

@KonstantinKisin

reporting he was on BBC Question Time last night and they didn't ask a question about the trans rapist, and he was told this was because there wasn't an LGBT person on the panel

I complained to BBC about the rapist Adam Graham that committed crimes while he was a man. I said that was inaccurate as he was still a man since self-Id is not law yet and he has no GRC. This is their reply:
“We raised your concerns with senior news editors. They explained that our coverage stemmed from a High Court report and it’s important that we are accurate in our descriptions of what has happened. In this case, a transgender woman has been found guilty of raping two women in attacks carried out before she changed gender.

Our reporting was clear to explain that Isla Bryson carried out the attacks as a man, when known as Adam Graham, and that she now identifies as a woman and is in the process of gender reassignment.

We are satisfied that our coverage has included accurate descriptions.“

They are a law to themselves. Sex assigned, gender reassigned! He could be as reassigned at he’d liked but no GRC no legal status. Insane BBC capture!

@Empowermenomore I agree that the BBC is very biased in their reporting of this issue, but in this case they seem to be correct. The EA says:

"Gender reassignment

(1)A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex. (...)" https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/7

Isla Bryson is protected, because the EA does not clarify what "in the process" means. Is all it takes putting red lipstick on, or do you have to take hormones? I am not a lawyer but the EA seems unclear to me.

Done, also to add Sex Matters are launching a tool to help everyday people hold journalists to account

@onlytherain it is unclear in many ways. What is living as a man or woman mean?

When does this process begin or end?
it’s really difficult to understand.

*AlecTrevelyan006 · Yesterday 20:55

konstantinkisin reporting he was on BBC Question Time last night and they didn't ask a question about the trans rapist, and he was told this was because there wasn't an LGBT person on the panel

What the actual?

I got a reply from the BBC this morning, I’m actually quite pleased. I wonder if things are changing there. They are always worried about it the licence fee and I wonder if they have taken notice of Rishi’s knowledge that a woman is an adult human female.

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Keep complaining, courage chalks to courage, plus you are giving the people advocating for women’s rights some ammunition in their work place vand

Well done @LiverpoolMuse

Done. Ridiculous that we have to do this but well worth it to make sure that they can't delude themselves as to the feeling of the general public on this

Liverpool - I was just about to post as I have received the same reply. I checked the hidden replies on the tweet and there are now only three replies that are hidden, probably because of descriptions like 'weirdos'.
I've made a couple of complaints over the last couple of months (e.g. about the headline about the 70 year-old man having sex with a thirteen year old girl but didn't ask for a response on those occasions. In future I will ask for a response.

MTCoffeePot I made a complaint about that headline and the response was that is the offence he was charged with, as he wasn't charged with rape under Scottish law, we can't say he raped her.
WTF is wrong with Scottish law?

That's dreadful.

If we don’t complain they’ll think it’s a OK.

I'm so glad you got a reply - haven't had mine yet. I'm quite convinced there's a TRA who curates that online site for BBC sport so was definitely worth complaining. In fact I accused them of such in my complaint! Keep going, keep complaining.