Media
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Bias at the BBC
What’s the issue? The BBC’s director of complaints has ruled that the presenter Justin Webb broke the BBC’s rules on impartiality when he commented, in a discussion about a women’s chess tournament on Radio 4’s Today programme, that “trans women” are male. This is shocking behaviour from the BBC:...
1st March 2024
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How Auntie excludes – why can the BBC interview Andrew Tate but not gender-critical feminists?
Cath Walton for The Critic
Walton asks why gender-critical feminists, and Sex Matters’ Helen Joyce in particular, are effectively blacklisted by the BBC, while morally dubious men are given a platform. -
IPSO’s updated guidance – our response
IPSO, the Independent Press Standards Organisation, has published draft Guidance on reporting of sex and gender identity to replace its 2016 publication, Guidance on researching and reporting stories involving transgender individuals. Sex Matters has written a response to the consultation and hopes that the final guidance will be improved...
2nd March 2023
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Response to IPSO consultation on guidance on reporting of sex and gender identity
In 2016 IPSO published Guidance on researching and reporting stories involving transgender individuals, with input only from trans lobby groups. In February 2023 it released a draft replacement for public consultation: Guidance on reporting of sex and gender identity. This is our response.