Mick Hartley

From the Telegraph – BBC trans coverage ‘censored’ by its own reporters:

The BBC’s trans coverage is subject to “effective censorship” by specialist LGBT reporters who refuse to cover gender-critical stories, one of the broadcaster’s own advisers has warned.

BBC staff have expressed concerns that the LGBT desk – which is shared by all the corporation’s news programmes – has been “captured by a small group of people” promoting a pro-trans agenda and “keeping other perspectives off air”.

This has led to “a constant drip-feed of one-sided stories … celebrating the trans experience without adequate balance or objectivity”, a leaked internal BBC memo concludes.

I think we knew this. In fact it’s been completely bloody obvious for ages that the BBC, with its obsession with drag queens and the like, is in thrall to trans activists. Still – good to have it confirmed.

More from the Times:

The BBC has been “captured by a small group of [staff] promoting the Stonewall view” of the trans debate, according to a leaked document compiled by a former independent adviser.

The claims made include the suppression of stories raising difficult questions about trans issues, with a “constant drip-feed” of more celebratory news features that were said to have been published without adequate balance.…

In the latest allegations, [Michael] Prescott said he had been contacted by a BBC presenter who put him in touch with a reporter and a producer who all had concerns about trans coverage.

They claimed that a centralised LGBT desk of staff “would decline to cover any story raising difficult questions”.

Prescott said: “What I was told chimed with what I saw for myself on BBC online. That stories raising difficult questions about the ‘trans agenda’ were ignored even if they had been widely taken up and discussed across other media outlets.”