BBC News Report on TW’s breastmilk broke broadcaster’s rules on accuracy

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The Context’s piece that aired on the BBC News Channel in March has been investigated by the BBC’s complaints unit & found to have breached the broadcaster’s standards on accuracy.

FWRers were amongst those who complained; & there were several threads around the time as the media discussed the issue:
• Human Milk FFS
• Trans women feeding chemical ridden milk to babies - approved by NHS
And not just in FWR:
• Transgender milk is just as good for babies as normal milk?

I hope this gets a lot more attention, it was absolutely outrageous of the BBC to give airtime to something most people would find implausible and a bit gross.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaint/thecontext19feb

'Kate Luxion
Kate Luxion, MFA MPH LCCE is a non-binary/genderqueer postgraduate researcher studying at University College London with a focus on LGBTQ+ reproductive health and parenting. Their PhD project focuses on assessing the roles of resilience and vulnerability in birth outcomes. Luxion also serves as Executive Director of the Journal of Reproductive Justice, a non-profit organization whose aim is providing inclusive resources and education for LGBTQ+ individuals and the providers who serve them. When not researching or writing, they work teaching undergraduate coursework and can also be found working on art with their partner and kiddo.'

https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~qtnvdf0/people/kate-luxion.html

Oh FGS…

Thanks @DrNickedMaCorpus - that link was in my OP but MN has a deeply DERPLY aggravating habit of removing a hyperlink of its choice when I make a post containing several of them 🤦‍♀️

An art/design grad and social researcher.

Given she was presented in that context, one would have assumed she was a medical researcher, or at the very least board certified lactation specialist.

BBC, that is piss poor.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kate-Luxion

@Fenlandia

Absolutely needs more attention. Millions would have seen the coverage and now think it's accurate.

Few will pay attention to a correction.

Massive thank you to everyone who complained. The BBC stream of trans articles on TV and online, often undermining the safeguarding of children, is awful.

Not just this male chestfeeding story- where the carcinogenic drugs given to men are a risk to the babies heart and have not passed any medical safety or ethics trial checks for the babies concerned- but also the whole pretending male sexual fetishes don't exist, and trying to coerce children to pretend mums are dads, and dads are mums, to undermine reality and child welfare which the GRA (section 12) and Freddy McConnell Supreme Court judgement since are supposed to protect children from.

Makes me so angry. A parent's sexual fetishes and trans fantasies shouldn't be forced onto anyone else, including their children, let alone by the BBC or NHS.

A very simple law - so simple it will never be passed - is that when an overseeing body rules a media organisation gets it wrong, the correction has to be displayed in the same position and prominence as the original article.

So get your front page wrong, and you lose a days front page.

Get a documentary wrong and you show your apology in the slot where it was shown. And if it was an hour documentary and a 1 minute correction then bad luck for 59 minutes of blank screen. (Although I know the BBC have a Farage screensaver ready for such a situation anyway)

Sometimes we need simple people running some things.

I agree. I've found this on the website, but it isn't clear what it concerns till you click on links. They seem to be handled as a complaint from an individual.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/ecu/the-context-bbc-news-channel-19-february-2024

The ECU noted that the management of BBC News had already acknowledged to the complainant that some of the scripting of the item, such as the reference to the WHO, could have been clearer, and that it would have been better to interview another contributor alongside Ms Luxion to examine the issues raised by Dr James’s letter, and had made a posting to that effect on the significant complaints page of bbc.co.uk. These actions allowed the ECU to conclude that the issues of complaint in relation to the second and fourth points to have been resolved. The ECU upheld the first point of complaint in relation to accuracy, but found no breach of editorial standards in relation to the third point.
Partly upheld/resolved

Not sure which thread to post this on but thought it worth posting ...

NHS trust that spread 'misinformation' with claim trans women could breastfeed as well as new mothers makes U-turn under pressure
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14144063/NHS-trust-trans-women-breastfeed-mothers-sussex.html

IwantToRetire · Today 01:13

Not sure which thread to post this on but thought it worth posting ...

I was just coming to post that and thought that this would be a good place for it. I see that:

A leaked letter this year from the medical director of University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust had suggested that milk produced by transwomen - who are born male - with the help of powerful drugs was 'comparable to that produced [by women] following the birth of a baby'.

has become:

Officials at the Trust say the guidelines were aimed at helping a 'small number' of lesbian women who may want to breastfeed to support their female partners who give birth.

What absolute lies, how can they be allowed to get away with saying that? We've all seen what they really said at the time. At least it seems that they've finally cottoned on to the fact that it's unsupportable and perverse.

Yes it's a lie- they are desperately backpedalling because it is against UK law to enable the abuse of children, whether through unauthorised, unethical medical/ drug experimentation or helping men use babies as part of their sexual fetish/ fantasies.

Children of Transitioners have today published a quote from the original policy and further information about how hard it is to get major organisations to address child abuse and safeguarding issues involving offenders who say they are trans, when they are trained by trans lobby groups.
childrenoftransitioners.org/2024/12/01/the-la-leche-loophole/