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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Fergus Walsh: BBC Medical Editor and a trans connection...

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LetsTalkTwaddle · 28/06/2024 20:04

Fergus Walsh has been a medical correspondent for the BBC for years and since 2020 has been Medical Editor. His wife Dr Veronique Walsh is Vice President of Gilead Sciences, a pharmaceutical company that over the last few years has given more than $4 million to community-led transgender organisations. Gilead specialises in HIV treatments: according to them 'Fourteen percent of all Transgender women are living with HIV, with Black and Latina Transgender women even more impacted or at risk.1'

https://www.gilead.com/purpose/partnerships-and-community/transcend

They've also had Gender Identity and Transition policies since 2019: Launched in 2019, our new Global Gender Identity and Transition Policy formalizes our core values and practices in a way that encourages employees to express their true gender identity, supports those who transition and aims to foster an affirming workplace for our transgender and gender non-binary colleagues. In response to an internal survey, on U.S. National Coming Out Day in 2019, we announced a new self-identification option that allows employees to self-ID sexual orientation and gender identity. While it’s important to know the number of employees who self-identify in the organization, self-identification also helps foster more inclusive workplaces through education and provides data for future talent development.

Anyone who's ever wondered why the BBC's medical coverage has completely avoided questioning gender ideology and gender treatment might justifiably wonder whether Fergus Walsh has influenced coverage of the subject. I'm not aware of the BBC covering issues such as the massive rise in cosmetic mastectomies or the dangers of SRS. Perhaps we now know why.

TRANScend | Gilead

Learn more about the TRANScend, .

https://www.gilead.com/purpose/partnerships-and-community/transcend

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Tootingbec · 28/06/2024 20:06

The irony of the name Gilead 😳

sorrynotathome · 28/06/2024 20:08

Oh just leave them alone will you?!!

SirWalterElliot · 28/06/2024 20:09

FYI, in US companies 'Vice President' doesn't mean they're second in command. They may well have hundreds and hundreds of VPs. So FW's wife is probably far less invested in the company's policies around HIV drugs/trans issues than your OP suggests.

LetsTalkTwaddle · 28/06/2024 20:19

Has the BBC ever done an in-depth look at the effect or efficacy of gender medicine and surgery? I rarely listen to Radio 4 these days but there used to be two weekly medicine-based progs — Inside Health and All in the Mind on Radio 4. Does anyone follow them/ know if they've covered these subjects? Ditto BBC TV. Panorama did an investigation in 2019 but nothing more than I can see.

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Blackcats7 · 28/06/2024 20:23

Well placed activists in public organisations do so much harm as they use our services to further their own agenda. The bbc is a disgrace these days. I am sick to death of them shoe horning a bit of trans propaganda into anything they possibly can and never a word of balance.
I stopped watch the bloody sewing bee because they just had to have someone telling us he is trans and sewing the trans colours. I want to be entertained in light programmes not indoctrinated.

HappierTimesAhead · 28/06/2024 20:27

sorrynotathome · 28/06/2024 20:08

Oh just leave them alone will you?!!

What, rich people who work for pharmaceutical companies and have dubious morals?

Ariana12 · 28/06/2024 20:33

Are we whinging little f*ckers now??

LetsTalkTwaddle · 28/06/2024 21:17

sorrynotathome · 28/06/2024 20:08

Oh just leave them alone will you?!!

Who, Fergus Walsh and his wife?

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WickedSerious · 28/06/2024 21:27

sorrynotathome · 28/06/2024 20:08

Oh just leave them alone will you?!!

Nah.

Littlewhingingfucker · 29/06/2024 09:09

Ariana12 · 28/06/2024 20:33

Are we whinging little f*ckers now??

You called?

Littlewhingingfucker · 29/06/2024 09:10

sorrynotathome · 28/06/2024 20:08

Oh just leave them alone will you?!!

Well when you make such a detailed and polite request as that... NO!

Codlingmoths · 29/06/2024 09:12

Agree totally that vps are like barely more than junior managers really in the US, she doesn’t have any influence , she just happens to work in pharma. I can’t really get worked up about this.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 29/06/2024 09:14

Oh yes, pretty sure we've discussed Gilead before on FWR.

LetsTalkTwaddle · 29/06/2024 12:51

SEEN in Journalism reporting that Fergus Walsh was sent the WPATH files and concerns about what was going in at WPATH by an established journalist in March. BBC still, apparently, not reported it.

https://twitter.com/JournalismSEEN/status/1806687754203332811

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MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 29/06/2024 12:56

Codlingmoths · 29/06/2024 09:12

Agree totally that vps are like barely more than junior managers really in the US, she doesn’t have any influence , she just happens to work in pharma. I can’t really get worked up about this.

I worked for an American bank back in the last century. The joke was that AVPs could read OR write, VPs could read AND write.

It did give me some amusement during covid (and not much did) when Mike Yeadon was quoted as gospel on vaccines because 'he's VP of Pfizer.' Nope, he's A VP in ONE section of Pfizer and Pfizer probably has hundreds of them.

EveDeservesBetter · 29/06/2024 16:43

sorrynotathome · 28/06/2024 20:08

Oh just leave them alone will you?!!

Hahahahahahahaha

No

ScrapeMyArse · 30/06/2024 08:57

Fergus Walsh blocked the journalist who sent him the WPATH files.

Is this how we want a publicly funded institution to behave?

To ignore a subject because of personal opinion? A subject with such huge implications for child safeguarding and medical harm.

If you're so sure your opinion is right, why would you be scared to look in depth?

ChrisPadley · 30/06/2024 19:37

Replying to SirwWalterElliot. Veronique Walsh was appointed Gilead Sciences' General Manager of UK and Ireland operations in 2021. That sounds pretty high up, especially given that the context is the, er. British Broadcasting Corporation.

ChrisPadley · 30/06/2024 19:51

I see that Gilead Sciences was founded in 1987. By that year a certain book by Margaret Atwood had been on best seller lists and winning literary prizes for a couple of years.

UpThePankhurst · 30/06/2024 21:01

Look, all of you, stop thinking! Will you all just stop thinking and just bleat the thought terminating bullshit like we tell you to. You keep making things really, really difficult it's letting information out that is much better to keep hidden, and fact shaming everyone is just mean. It's something only nasty, ugly, smelly and old people who love Hitler do. Don't make me tell my mum on you

SilverElf · 30/06/2024 21:17

We need to complain and get some proper response from the BBC. Maybe the new PM could help with this - oh, wait….

UpThePankhurst · 30/06/2024 21:40

We're about to have a PM who supports alternative reality, plans to introduce legal penalties for saying things he doesn't agree with (like mentioning reality), and is explaining how women owe subordination and submission and access to them in a state of undress to cheer up sad men. I'm absolutely sure he'll be all for an impartial BBC saying inconvenient things!

I suspect Jane is the last member of the public to ever have uncontrolled, unplanned, unvetted and unstaged access to that particular politician. He did not like it up him.

ChrisPadley · 01/07/2024 08:21

I see that Gilead Sciences actually adopted the name in 1988, not 1987. It was called Oligogen for its first year.

misscockerspaniel · 01/07/2024 08:26

There is no way that this should be swept under the carpet - it needs to be on the front page of every newspaper.

I presume that Panorama is out of the question so what about an investigation by Channel 4's Dispatches?

SilverElf · 01/07/2024 08:29

UpThePankhurst - exactly! I expect the BBC will be rewarded for their fealty