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As far as I can tell, this programme contains pretty serious breaches of the BBC editorial guidelines as regards accuracy, fair editing, duty of care to contributors. Does anyone care? Of course not, Because anti-trans bias is endemic. I have made a complaint but am not holding my breath.

Ok since the worst people in the world are accusing the BBC of pro-trans bias, I guess it's time to talk about how this summer the BBC completely dishonestly edited me to cape for transphobic bullies 🧵

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As expected, Police Scotland have ran away from pressure from the ‘Gender Critical’ hate movement yet again. Not only has the radicalised extremist Susan Smith been offered immunity from the law(criminal damage), to rub salt into the wound, she has been invited in for tea ‘n scones. 1/3

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‘Biological pronouns’, now part of a decision in the US courts, was workshopped in plain sight by British GCs. British GCs have been ascendant in large part due to US funding of their associated fake charities and activist orgs. Transphobia is an organised, international war effort.

With full complicity of the Supreme Court www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Aside from anything else: individual members of the public who have done nothing wrong should be able to live their lives in peace, without being turned into national hate figures by the world’s most poisonous and destructive media outlets.

The fact that the global trans panic is helmed by conservatives who believe in the subjugation of women being a natural consequence of biology should have maybe been a clue

I think it speaks volumes in these cases about who is being intimidated and bullied given that pictures of trans women are often blurry candids snapped by journos outside the court whereas the cis women are in posed group photographs.

It's so, so pointlessly cruel, that you are forced to acknowledge that the cruelty is the point. Can't even set aside their habitual going out of their way to be disrespectful and degrading when their being paid to respect the dead. The worst of humanity; cosplaying as integrity.

Joyce thinks someone working in the care of the dead and their grieving relatives should centre their GC beliefs rather than the needs of the bereaved for compassion and respect in their darkest days. In advocating for the right to wilfully disrespect the dead she yet again reveals her inhumanity.

There really is a point where you have to decide whether you are with these horrible people, or against them. There isn’t a viable halfway position.

There’s no longer a question whether Britain can afford to keep this system of very online cranks/vicious reactionary newspapers/opportunist politicians. They’ve fucked our economy and wrecked our public realm, and turned out politics into a hateful nightmare. The question is: who will say, Enough.

Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering

you pull this shit on me I'm not giving you evil looks, I'm giving you house bricks through the windows at 2am.

the absolute gall of these bigots to complain about someone allegedly giving them evil looks AFTER THEY HAVE DECIDED SHE IS A DANGER TO THEM AND THEY'VE TRIED TO GET HER FIRED AND/OR BANNED FROM USING THE BATHROMS. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A Comprehensive Timeline of J.K. Rowling's Descent Into Transphobia From beloved children’s author to funding the legal battle to codify transphobia into law, we charted how Rowling became “queen TERF” Next time someone asks how JKR is transphobic - send them this!

Amused by columnist writing a whole article about the radicalisation and cruelty of GenX while failing to recognise the massive beam in her own eye and those of her respected peers (transphobia and Islamophobia)

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

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Like, really thinking about this - the quote is from a written statement, so there's no way it was misheard or mistranscribed - someone has deliberately replaced 'identity' with 'ideology' either specifically or by general find-replace, and this demonstrates clear editorial bias.

They've changed it back again now, but changing a quote is a huge red flag. The BBC are repeatedly demonstrating that there are ideologues directly interfering with the meaning of stories they report relating to trans people, and this should be a far bigger deal than it is

In this piece, admitting the BBC has broken its impartiality rules re. trans people, the BBC further breaks its impartiality rules by changing a quote saying "trans identity" to "trans ideology".

Every trans person, family member or ally who has spoken to the nyt has been exploited and abused. Every expert who has spoken to the nyt has seen their words twisted and misrepresented.

The nyt editors already have a biased angle in mind. They’re not seeking facts, they’re looking for quotes to fill in a predetermined narrative of bigotry. Every nyt story about us is intended to spread disinformation and foment discrimination. The leadership’s anti-trans animosity is deeply held

The amusing part of this is that the excited, delighted Tweets from GenCrits praising her formed part of the reason for the CU finding against her www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The days when you could go "well, the Tories or Labour wouldn't flout our traditional civil liberties so we can trust them" are over. We don't live in those times anymore. If a government can misuse data, it WILL misuse it sooner or later. Maybe not this lot, but definitely someone in the future.

In terms of legislation and wider, @scottishgreens.orgs are calling for action: greens.scot/news/greens-...

#DarlingtonMemorialHospital case. A good example of the creeping toxic cancer of the #GenderCritical (GC) approach in the workplace. The decent #Trans person does not recognise herself from the GC depictions of her. Persistent rumour, then nasty comments & ostracising. www.msn.com/en-gb/lifest...

At the centre of this is Health Secretary Wes Streeting. His catastrophic orders are driven by a report that was politically motivated and has been widely discredited. What Streeting and NHS Sussex are doing is jawdroppingly unsafe, outside the law and with no regard at all for the patients.

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/... Children on suicide watch as lifesaving medication taken away without discussion or appeal. GPs threatened with shutdown for supporting their patients. A health authority making up the law as they feel like it. I strongly urge you to read this.

The problem with institutional capture is that you can whistle-blow, and the complaint falls in the pigeon-hole of someone in cahoots with the people causing the fuckery.

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To be really clear, Sussex ICB threatened, in writing, to close a Brighton GP practice serving 25,000 patients, purely to bully them into passing over child records. The GP did not want to pass on these records, because they understood the acute risk (& reality) of harm to trans adolescents.

As the BBC carries anecdotal claims from a disgruntled former BBC staffer that it has a pro trans bias here is *actual* polling about trans people's level of trust in the BBC. (The BBC refused to carry the polling, the first of what it is like to live in Britain as trans, because it is "too weak".)

I remain absolutely amazed how, nearly two years down the line, this post on adapting to the new reality of search in the era of AI holds up incredibly well. www.ianbetteridge.com/adaptin...

The latest episode of Cracked Ivory, a conversation with @judedoyle.bsky.social about his new book, is well worth your time. Fascinating conversation between Jude, Talia Bhatt and Emma Zakharuk.

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To be clear the original article is complaining that the LGBT news reporting desk is not quite as transphobic as literally every other section of the BBC. It is complaining that the *LGBT* desk is not rolling out the red carpet for cishet people with "legitimate concerns".

This may be of interest @missfreda.bsky.social

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This goes for your local branch library too, I've been reliably informed.