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Some Random Trans Woman's avatar

Can I describe the BBC as a "propaganda outlet that identifies as a newsroom"?

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Kassandra F.'s avatar

Are we surprised? This is TERF Island News. The only thing that surprises me is that it’s taken them this long to do it.

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Jayna Sheats's avatar

Yes, I'm surprised that the BBC has capitulated. It's not a Murdoch rag. It's a harbinger, however, of how far the UK has gone into the realm of the radical right. The Reform UK party leading the others in latest polls.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

The banality of evil is rivaled only by the pettiness of evil.

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Jenny Turner's avatar

Omfg- you’d think people would have some professional standards and conscience.

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Devin's avatar

All these dimwit alternate names for trans people are just ways for us to be called the f word by people who are too gutless to actually say it

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Essie's avatar

The takeover of these major news organizations by far right ideologues who have no desire to report the news accurately or without bias is truly horrifying to see. Mainstream media is just about finished as far as having any degree of trustworthiness goes.

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Siproeta's avatar

Sickening. Fuck the UK. Fuck the BBC. Fuck blue labour.

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Theano's avatar

Linehan is a disgusting POS. Shame on the BBC too for giving in to the bullshit

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Kassandra's avatar

Great time to stop paying that tv license

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Yder1's avatar

They’ve described trans women as “biological males who identify as women” in so many articles now. Not just this one. It’s like official policy for the bbc now.

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Jaimie Hileman's avatar

Time to delete all BBC subscriptions and apps.

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Rian Garn's avatar

It’s hard for me to accept the reality that we are unfortunately living in a new era of repression. We’re going to have to revisit many battles that we thought we settled in the past.

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Yasha's avatar

It's really unfortunate that the outlet responsible for good content like BBC Science Focus and BBC History is so selectively regressive when it comes to trans people. They should fucking know better.

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Jane Valerie's avatar

Another TERF Island classic.

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Don Jackson's avatar

Thank you for the link to the style guide. It'll be really helpful for me personally.

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Alisa's avatar

I’ll be writing NPR. It carries BBC World News programming daily.

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