Charlie Walsham, a pseudonymous BBC News employee, on the Beeb's capture by the gender lobby. At the Spectator:
I hesitate to say it, but I believe this could be the worst scandal ever to hit the BBC, and that – I realise – is saying something.
Why? Because unlike the horrors of the Jimmy Savile revelations or, more recently, Huw Edwards’s appalling conduct, the BBC has, in effect, made all its journalists complicit in the mainstreaming of a dangerous social media contagion that has caused real-world harms.
The BBC has kneeled at the altar of trans activism, putting virtue-signalling progressivism ahead of hard-headed realism and impartiality. In doing so, it has amplified the calumny that anyone who believes women’s sex-based rights matter, and that being a woman is more than a costume or a set of behaviours, is a bigot who must be condemned, cancelled and ostracised. More damningly, it has played a part in convincing an entire generation of children who are experiencing entirely normal growing pains, or discovering their true sexuality, that they may have been ‘born in the wrong body’.
Time for Director General Tim Davie to go.
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