Women exist

The Times version of the Martine Croxall/pregnant people clash:

BBC News presenter who corrected the phrase “pregnant people” to “women” while live on-air has had 20 complaints about her upheld.

Martine Croxall, 56, was introducing a news item in June about a study into protecting vulnerable people in hot weather conditions when she made the change to the wording contained in the report and appeared to roll her eyes.

Not roll exactly. More do that thing where you twitch the skin around the eyes – it’s more a glare than a roll. She definitely doesn’t turn her eyes up toward the ceiling like a teenager. If you blink you miss it. If she hadn’t also uttered the word “women” no one would have noticed the slight twitch.

But now the broadcaster’s Editorial Complaints Unit [ECU] has censured the presenter for breaching its rules on impartiality. It concluded that her reaction, which it said “has been variously interpreted by complainants as showing disgust, ridicule, contempt or exasperation” revealed her personal viewpoint on the controversies surrounding the debate over transgender people.

Oh do shut up. There wouldn’t be any controversy if you idiots would stop pushing this ridiculous ideology on us. There shouldn’t be any debate over whether or not men can be women. They can’t; the end; don’t slam the door on your way out.

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