BBC trans coverage ‘censored’ by its own reporters Corporation’s LGBT desk ‘keeps other perspectives off air’, leaked internal dossier claims

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/5ac2c6a0bb851134

absolutely shocked.

no really….

Maxine Croxall only had 20 complaints and the BBC investigated. It's likely she had hundreds of supporters to balance the complaints.

They must have had way more complaints than 20 from MN alone, on various reporting yet no investigation or change of direction.

BBC ‘infiltrated by trans activists’, Tavistock whistleblower claims

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/e812f552a47c904a

Thank you for that article about BBC censorship of information relating to the Tavistock whistleblower talking about gender questioning children’s safety and well being.

What a brave junior BBC radio 2 producer that was, trying to ensure the whistleblower would speak last so as to correct any misleading transactivist misinformation broadcast. Poor thing being quashed by their superior.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/2624d55b-8e03-4f89-b011-3cb88dafac39?shareToken=a38b19e8b9c86ce9b969861ad2d5c9f3

Very interesting, thanks @impossibletoday. I was disappointed by the end of the article (BBC denial) but, otherwise, it does sound more hopeful.

This!!

DH sent me the link to this Times article - here is the archive link for the record
https://archive.is/KaVL9
(ETA - it's most unsual for DH to get involved in this stuff - he mainly has to listen to me wanging on about it. He almost seemed pleased that the "age of counterfactualism seems to be coming to a close"

It seems to have a lot of quotes taken from the SEENinJournalism recent episode about the BBC, which is very interesting and available here:
https://seeninjournalism.substack.com/p/seen-in-journalism-the-bbc-bias-and

Yes - I noticed that there was yet another denial.

But the article was good and explained a lot about how much the BBC refused communicate that the public has a right to know.

The timescale of women being punished for not toeing the bbc party line is longer than 5 years though - I’m thinking of Jenni Murray. Did no one in a senior position in the BBC not notice or did they think it was absolutely fine that a highly respected broadcaster and presenter of Women’s Hour, ffs, was vilified and muzzled and essentially forced out for her mild and rational views?

I so agree. She was Woman’s Hour. She was a woman. She was there to represent women.

She was villified and accused of being biased and controversial by the BBC for the equivalent of saying the earth is round.

Go back and see how many others rushed in to crush her too.

Be trans, be proud - but don’t call yourself “a real woman”.

This was the title of the article Jenni Murray had written.

In 2017.
I’m pretty sure many of us had noticed the bias (not just in the BBC of course, but definitely including it and women’s hour ) before then because we were so pleased she stuck her head above the parapet.

@ErrolTheDragon I have just found a thread in May 2016 where I asked what the arguments were about around men feeling they were women, and how my daughter at university and all her friends thought no one had the right to criticise them.

I was very late in catching up and getting information from mumsnet. So many others of you must have been discussing the problems long before I asked.

By the way, there was a thread I just saw: I’m Jenni Murray. I wonder how many of us wrote in to complain to the BBC? I wrote two letters. There must have been hundreds who complained.

Come on BBC, apologise to Jenni Murray too please.

Go back and see how many others rushed in to crush her too.

Do you know if there's an easy way to see who these people were?

It would be interesting to see if any of them have publicly shifted their position to "GC"/sex realist, gone quiet or dug in deeper since then.

Hated the cold contempt the interviewers on womens hour would show towards any sex realist women. 🙄 Then as soon as they were got rid of the fawning would commence 🙄.

Not Jenni Murray or Emma Barnett but the other pathetic ones.

@BonfireLady

Re Jenni Murray being further attacked:

The Guardian 14 April 1917
*Why I joined the trans protest against Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray.
I’m angry that the Woman’s Hour host, who said that trans women are not ‘real women’, was allowed to talk unopposed at my university. That is why I had to stand in solidarity with my trans friends.

When the Daily Mail found out that I, along with other Oxford activists, had protested against Dame Jenni Murray’s Oxford Literary Festival talk because she had written that trans women are not “real women”, we were met with mockery. After all, who would dare question the views of a renowned feminist with 30 years of experience hosting Woman’s

However, this is exactly why I had to join the protest. I was angry that Murray felt she could present an unbiased history of women, and that Oxford University, home to a thriving LGBT+ student community, was willing to give her a platform unopposed.
www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/05/jenni-murray-transgender-not-real-women-sunday-times-magazine

November 2018*
Oxford Talk
BBC Radio 4 host Dame Jenni Murray has pulled out of an Oxford University talk amid a backlash over comments she made about transgender people.
The Woman's Hour presenter was invited to speak at an event called Powerful British Women in History and Society.
But the student union's LGBTQ Campaign said she had made "transphobic comments" in a 2017 newspaper article.
The Oxford University History Society subsequently said she had cancelled her appearance "for personal reasons".
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-46139085

December 2018
Hull University
A university will review its decision to name a lecture theatre after Dame Jenni Murray after protests over her comments about transgender people.
The University of Hull's plan to honour the BBC Radio 4 host sparked a backlash from staff and students against an article she wrote in 2017.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-46442389

Then India Willoughby & Pink News ( as you would expect).

To be fair to the BBC, I see from looking back, that they did report on what happened to Jenni Murray, including restating her views and quoting her. They also included what she said about the transgender male, the Rev. Carol Stone, who was a Church of England ‘woman’ priest, fretting about what clothes and makeup to wear being what first alerted her in 2000 to the wrong to women of elements of the trans movement.

Emma Barnett was useless
right up till Pompey Steph tried to talk to her about Endometriosis

I complained to the BBC a couple of weeks ago that their coverage on the story of BBC bias was in itself biased. I have had a response. Basically batting away the complaint saying they are a great broadcaster and work hard at being balanced. 😡On that basis I expect to see people like Helen Joyce and Rosie Duffield being given plenty of air time on R4 Today and Woman's Hour to discuss issues like the puberty blockers trial, EHRC guidelines, the value of single sex spaces to women etc. I'm not holding my breath.......

I didn't bother reading the response to my complaint because I suspected that their lack of insight and integrity would be bad for my blood pressure.

I also had a rubbish response,.which I skimmed through.

Lots of discussion on the BBC about the BBC today. Any mention of transgender bias? Not a word (I would be pleased to be told I’m wrong).

Same..poor response. I guess it must have been the trans desk dealing with complaints.