BBC bias
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Does sex matter at the BBC?
The national broadcaster’s mission is to provide “impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate and entertain”. It is obliged by its charter to be accurate and impartial. Accuracy is something you might expect of any news medium, but the BBC has constant pressure to ensure that...
25th July 2024
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Why does the BBC keep getting sex and gender wrong?
In November 2023, BBC Woman’s Hour interviewed Steph Richards – a man who has publicly documented his harassment of women in the name of trans-rights activism – because he had been appointed as CEO of a micro-charity, Endometriosis South Coast. This is part of a pattern where the BBC gets...
23rd March 2024
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“Be nice!” says the BBC’s director-general
The director-general of the BBC, Tim Davie, appeared at the parliamentary select committee for culture, media and sport this week. He was asked by Damian Green MP about the complaint upheld against Justin Webb for clarifying that transwomen “are, in other words, male”. Webb was reprimanded by the BBC’s...
22nd March 2024
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Letter to Tim Davie, director-general of the BBC
Sex Matters’ chair wrote to suggest a process of strategic engagement for the BBC with experts and campaigners who promote mainstream, legally accurate and scientifically sound positions on sex and gender.
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‘Transitioning Teens’ and an irresponsible BBC
Suicide is a personal tragedy that leaves deep, life-long wounds upon families and friends. Journalists and public figures have been rightly condemned for treating the matter glibly or sensationally. And yet, even as experts warn that poor reporting on the issue could even contribute to ‘imitational suicides’, such advice appears to...