The Telegraph reports:

The BBC’s “gender and identity correspondent” sought to block coverage of a campaign group aiming to protect women-only spaces, The Telegraph can reveal.

Sorry to interrupt but what tf is a “gender and identity correspondent”? A correspondent in meaningless but trendy abstractions? Did the BBC have an actual women correspondent at all?

Megha Mohan, who has held the specialist role since 2018, emailed a co-worker raising concerns about their plans to film a debate by the group Woman’s Place UK.

In the email – sent months after she started her role – Ms Mohan wrote: “There’s some concern from LGBT+ about giving this group a platform, they are seen as a more extreme organisation that we would be legitimizing (sic).”

Oh I see. She was a silencing women correspondent. How very BBC.

Isn’t it odd how we’ve gone from sturdy conventional mainstream ignoring of women to exciting trendy enlightened ignoring of women? You’d think we could have had a year or two of actual non-hostile attention, but I guess Karens just never manage to deserve that.

In a follow-up email, she added: “A couple of LGBT contacts have told me about Woman’s Place and called them transphobes in the past.”

I don’t suppose it occurred to her to talk to a couple of women contacts? No, of course not, that would be retrograde and despicable.

Ms Mohan’s intervention can be revealed this week as The Telegraph published revelations from a leaked internal BBC memo that details numerous instances of apparent bias at the broadcaster. The 8,000-word letter was sent to members of the BBC board by Michael Prescott, a former standards adviser. He wrote of his “despair at inaction by the BBC executive” over widespread evidence of bias.

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The leaked dossier includes claims that its trans coverage was biased towards stories “celebrating the trans experience without adequate balance or objectivity”. It claims the BBC’s trans coverage is subject to “effective censorship” by specialist LGBT reporters who refuse to cover gender-critical stories.

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[Mohan] was appointed alongside Ben Hunte, who was made “LGBT correspondent”. The pair have reported extensively on transgender issues, in numerous instances focusing on the transgender experience or detailing the abuse the community suffered.

Ms Mohan interviewed transgender soldiers banned from the US army, while Mr Hunte wrote about the “distressing” waits for children to have gender reassignment treatment at the controversial Tavistock gender clinic.

The Telegraph could find no examples of the pair having written articles that focused on people who had de-transitioned or expressed concerns around transgender women using female-only spaces.

Mohan is still the BBC’s genner and idennniny correspondent.