Mick Hartley

So just to summarise: a female artist expresses private concerns about puberty blockers that is the view of an independent medical review for NHS, then her content is removed from BBC schedule. Content encouraging ppl to kick a woman with gender critical views is OTOH “nuanced”.

— Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) September 15, 2023

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Here's the story:

BBC bosses have defended airing a song encouraging listeners to 'kick' women with gender-critical views.

Listeners complained after 6 Music played They/Them by Dream Nails, which includes the line 'Kick terfs all day, don't break a sweat'.

But dismissing the objections, a member of the BBC's complaints team said: 'People will interpret songs with any element of nuance or ambiguity differently.'…

One furious complainant told the Mail: 'It endorses an explicit violent threat on the grounds of sex and political belief yet the BBC would not remove it from their playlist.'

It comes as 6 Music was accused of 'blatantly' refusing to play Roisin Murphy's songs after the singer publicly criticised puberty blockers.

And here are the lyrics:

Not getting the nuance and ambiguity myself. Perhaps you need to be non-binary.

Is it nuanced and ambiguous to call on any group to be kicked all day, I wonder – or just this one?