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BBC News boss admits: We haven’t got our trans coverage right

Which means, at the very least, that you also haven’t got your women coverage right.

A senior BBC News executive has admitted the broadcaster made mistakes in its coverage of transgender issues.

Richard Burgess, the corporation’s director of news content, told journalists in an all-staff call on Wednesday that they must cover the gender debate impartially and consider the views of both sides.

Or, you could just stop pretending it’s a real controversy at all.

The BBC doesn’t cover both sides of disputes around settled knowledge. It doesn’t interview children on the vexed question of whether or not the Tooth Fairy is real. It doesn’t treat everything as a tossup between two points of view. Why is there any need to give a voice to people with delusional ideas about which people are women?

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