OFCOM has launched an investigation into a Talk TV programme for “broadcasting anti-trans hate”.
The regulator confirmed that the right-wing channel is facing a probe after the Good Law Project (GLP) lodged several complaints over its output in recent months.
Oh well then. If it’s the Pretentious Maugham Project then it must be right.
More than 21,000 people complained to Ofcom to take action over Talk TV’s repeated “attacks on trans people”, GLP said.
Because Maugham urged them to, yeah?
Ofcom confirmed that one programme presented by host Ian Collins will be investigated over its anti-trans content, while episodes hosted by Collins, Alex Phillips and Jeremy Kyle will face a probe over how they covered climate change and net zero.
But what counts as “anti-trans”?
I ask because so often it’s not saying mean things to trans people but simply stating obvious truths like “men are not women”. We have the right to say there is no God and we have the right to say men are not women.
The first Collins programme, on June 23, 2025, featured a discussion on gender-neutral language in the court system. Collins suggested during the programme that “non-binary is just an invented thing”, while guest Helen Joyce, of Sex Matters, said that it is an “actual fact” that “one hundred per cent of everyone who’s ever been pregnant is a woman, whether they like it or not”
Yes, and?
GLP said that in one of those programmes, broadcast on June 21, 2025, host Phillips suggested that trans rights groups know “giving children puberty blockers was evil”.
In another segment that was complained about to Ofcom, presenter Kevin O’Sullivan accused a trans woman of wanting to “pretend that he’s female”.
The first one is similar to the issue with saying people are lying (which can risk a libel suit in the UK), because we can’t know for sure what other people are thinking…or we can most of the time but we can’t prove that we can so best not risk it.
I suppose the second one has the same issue, because we can’t know what people want…or we can but etc see above.
Matthew Gill, a lawyer at GLP, said Ofcom are “basically giving right-wing channels a free pass”.
“The far right can only spread their toxic lies because of platforms backed by billionaires,” he said. “So we need a regulator that takes it seriously when channels break their duty to provide balance. It’s time for Ofcom to stop right-wing media barons broadcasting hate.”
Hmm. Broadcasting hate is it. Has he seen the way people like “India” Willoughby talk about radical feminists who know a man when we see one?
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