Gordon Rayner at The Telegraph:

The BBC’s trans coverage is subject to “effective censorship” by specialist LGBT reporters who refuse to cover gender-critical stories, one of the broadcaster’s own advisers has warned.

BBC staff have expressed concerns that the LGBT desk – which is shared by all the corporation’s news programmes – has been “captured by a small group of people” promoting a pro-trans agenda and “keeping other perspectives off air”.

This has led to “a constant drip-feed of one-sided stories … celebrating the trans experience without adequate balance or objectivity”, a leaked internal BBC memo concludes. It said it reflected a “cultural problem across the BBC”, which treats issues of gender and sexuality as “a celebration of British diversity” rather than a complex and contentious subject.

Not to mention a pernicious attack on women’s rights.

The debate around transgender rights, and children being given irreversible medical interventions such as puberty blockers, has been one of the most highly charged issues in politics, society and medicine in recent years.

It led to a Supreme Court ruling that “sex” referred to biological sex rather than gender identity, and the independent Cass Review of gender identity services, which resulted in the closure of the controversial Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock clinic in London.

But stories reflecting the views of people who challenged the concept of gender identity were largely suppressed by the BBC’s LGBT reporters, according to a memo written by a former member of the broadcaster’s editorial guidelines and standards committee.

Also according to many of us sweaty commoners who keep saying women’s jobs should go to women and prizes for women should go to women and promotions meant for women should go to women, ad infinitum.

The Telegraph has seen a copy of the 19-page memo, which was sent to members of the BBC Board last month and is now circulating in government departments.

It was compiled by Michael Prescott, who until June was an independent adviser to the BBC’s editorial guidelines and standards committee, and sent to executives because of his “despair at inaction by the BBC executive when issues come to light”.

It warns that the BBC is not only risking bias in its coverage of trans issues, but is confusing viewers by failing to make it clear that transgender women are biological males, or even transgender at all.

In other words the BBC is not making it clear that some of the people it refers to as women are in fact trans women i.e. men. It just straight up calls them women/she/her and leaves it at that.

Stonewall, the LGBT rights charity, has attracted growing controversy in recent years over its increasing focus on trans rights, resulting in all government departments, as well as the BBC, withdrawing from its Diversity Champions scheme for equal opportunity employers.

Mr Prescott had already noticed that stories raising difficult questions about the trans agenda were not being covered by the BBC, even when they were being widely reported elsewhere. 

We too had noticed. Day in and day out for years we’ve been noticing and saying.

Among stories ignored by the BBC was the leaking of documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health in March 2024 that raised concerns about the quality of care given to gender-distressed children, which was covered by The Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Economist, the Observer, the Washington Post, The Times and others.

The BBC also failed to cover the story of Darlington nurses who took their employer to court for allowing their changing rooms to be used by biological males, or the story of biological male police and prison officers allegedly conducting strip searches on women and girls.

Instead of giving viewers, listeners and readers a balanced view of the trans debate, the BBC gave them “a constant drip-feed of one-sided stories, usually news features, celebrating the trans experience without adequate balance or objectivity”, the leaked memo says.

As many of us have been pointing out for years.

The leaked memo also says that the much-debated concept of gender identity is often presented in BBC reporting as “an established fact rather than contested”.

This was put down to a cultural problem across the BBC: “That too many of its staff have never considered the idea of ‘gender identity’ to be either spurious or offensive to many people.”

No not either spurious or offensive; both spurious and offensive.

Will anything change?