Mick Hartley

Helen Joyce at The Critic on the BBC’s fixation with trans heroes, drag queens, and gender bollocks:

In Nineteen Eighty-Four Winston must be tortured to make him say that two and two make five; the BBC lies about reality voluntarily.

A mustachioed German neo-Nazi taking advantage of the country’s gender self-ID law to serve his sentence in a women’s jail; a mentally ill American teenager who shot up a Catholic church, killing children; a man who livestreamed himself skinning and dismembering a cat before chucking it in a blender, and who strangled a stranger and threw the body in a river?

Literally no man is deranged enough that the BBC balks at his demand to be called a woman and she/her.

If you complain about one of these stories, you’ll be told the BBC’s style guide requires journalists to refer to people as they wish, and in particular that it does so if that is the language used in court. In other words, it has written rules for itself that require it to repeat other people’s lies, especially when those lies are self-interested or originate from state-run sources. Pravda couldn’t have said it better.…

It’s not just news that is distorted by the BBC’s determination to pretend men can be women. In recent months University Challenge, Antiques Roadshow, Escape to the Country, The Repair Shop and Match of the Dayhave all featured trans-identifying men as guests, every time presented as women without any mention that they are trans, let alone that they aren’t actually women at all. For less than 0.1 per cent of the population, that’s a hell of a lot of “representation”.

But not as much as the BBC gives to drag queens, its favourite demographic. On a recent day nearly half the first page of results for a search on its website for “drag queen” (a preloaded tag) were about The Vivienne, a queen with they/them pronouns (scrupulously observed) who was addicted to ketamine and died in January of drug abuse.

Every update on the cause of death and every Z-list celebrity who mourned his passing merited an update. Compare that to the single article apiece on the conviction and sentencing of Stephen Ireland, a high-profile LGBT campaigner and founder of Pride in Surrey, for raping a 12-year-old. When it comes to the rainbow, only boosterism is allowed.

Presumably the drag queen obsession followed the pricey purchase of Ru Paul’s Drag Race in 2019. Six years later the BBC must surely have asked every drag queen in Britain his opinion about absolutely everything. It’s reminiscent of a Soviet factory pumping out unwanted, outdated tractors because the politburo hasn’t told it to stop.

Yes the BBC – with its unique position and power in the UK – must bear a considerable part of the blame for the spread of gender woo. It’s been captured by trans ideology from the start, and there are no discernible signs of the changes that are starting to take place elsewhere.

Then there’s the matter of Israel…