More from that Telegraph article.
I stopped at:
“Nobody, ever, ever said to me as director of news, ‘you need to get points in the Stonewall league table’,” she said. But she acknowledged that “there was a sea in which we all swam… an atmosphere. We need to be kind to transitioning people. It’s a social phenomenon. And I think this ‘be kind’ thing was at the heart of it.”
Onward.
Ms Unsworth claimed that one reason why the trans issue “wasn’t gripped” during her time at the helm of BBC News was that the core facts of the issue were themselves disputed.
She claimed: “Impartiality only operates when you can look at evidence and facts and point to them as the basis of your reporting on this. And the facts at this point were incredibly disputed.”
Disputed by fools.
Come on. No one with the brains of a gnat really thinks the fact that men are not women is “incredibly disputed” in the sense that serious people are seriously disputing that men are not women. It’s not a genuine controversy, it’s an invented one that’s been puffed up by zealots.
Ms Unsworth added that the turning point had been last April, when the Supreme Court made clear that a woman – for the purposes of the Equality Act – meant a biological woman.
She claimed that the ruling in For Women Scotland vs The Scottish Ministers provided journalists with the “basis of challenge” against those who insisted that men could decide to be women.
Again – come on. Legions of women have been doing that for more than ten years – Julie Bindel, Helen Joyce, Kathleen Stock, JKR, and on and on, as have men such as Graham Linehan and Colin Wright.
She pointed out that “until the Supreme Court ruling on it, Keir Starmer himself was saying trans women are women”.
Yes but that’s because he was being a trendy coward, not because the question was really open.
There’s a lot of that around.
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