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A network for journalists and content-makers across platforms who seek to restore accuracy and impartiality to media coverage of sex and gender
Joined March 2024
SEENinJournalism is a new network for all reporters, columnists, investigative journalists, producers, editors and content-makers across platforms, who seek to restore accuracy and impartiality to the media coverage of sex and gender. /.
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‘Sue Barker: trans women should not compete against biological females’. In the @MailOnline
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‘‘We’re not transphobic, we just want privacy’: The nurses fighting the NHS for women-only spaces.In an exclusive interview, four whistleblowers reveal why they’re suing their hospital for allowing a man to use the women’s changing room’
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Incredible. Women being forcibly intimately searched by men didn’t deserve a headline. Men being searched by men - that’s what the @guardian thinks is a scandal.
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So shocking we had to check and, yes, it’s still there. @Telegraph your framing is egregiously misogynist and not even the top line of the story. @louisjemanuel please revisit your approach to headlining stories about sexual violence of any kind, and please post-edit this.
@laurarichards99 Have you seen this headline from the @Telegraph someone needs to tell them going to court to seek justice for horrific crimes committed against you is not revenge.
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It’s just not true @BBCNews . He hasn’t banned trans athletes from women’s sport . He’s banned men and boys from women and girls’ sport . Female athletes who self-identify as ‘trans’ can play women’s sport so long as they aren’t on testosterone or other enhancing drugs
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We emailed @BBCWomansHour. Sandie Peggie is currently the biggest ‘women’s’ story. It will affect millions: it deserves coverage. Our aim is balance, not to shut down ‘trans-inclusive’ voices - but Peggie is a much bigger story than today’s feature. WH must cover it properly.
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This is so wrong. She complained about having to share a changing room with a man. The BBC has in effect changed her words, despite the fact that sexed language has been and is extremely important in this case.
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This was started by @ripx4nutmeg and is now picked up by the @Telegraph . Without Nutmeg sending these things viral, which means trawling, recording, editing, but most of all a lot of trawling - so much would go under the radar. It’s a tough gig, and is making a huge difference.
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There’s no need for these stories about terrified men. They aren’t terrified, because there’s nothing to be terrified of. What they are, is upset that they might not be able to force people to comply with their demands quite so smoothly. Women have been terrified. Report that.
Jessica Alves reveals she has been forced to cancel all US TV appearances over 'fears for her own safety' amid President Trump's crackdown on 'gender ideology'
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Astonishing headline from @BBCSport. ‘Imane Khelif progresses after opponent abandons’. @AlexKayJelski you promised us impartiality. That means abandoning your habit of selective bias. What is this 👆
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Latest from @Telegraph . This is not in the past. This is happening this week. Her employers are reported to be pressing ahead. ‘Sandie Peggie. is understood to have been told to attend a conduct hearing on Friday which her employer has warned could lead to her dismissal’
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‘Swamped with complaints’. Well done all. ‘Sandie Peggie employment tribunal secrecy sparks flurry of complaints to the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service’. @ScotExpress
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‘Women don’t threaten or beat up trans people. Nor do feminists carry placards as vicious as those from Saturday with sketches of hanged women or “I love pissing on Terfs”. Male violence is the problem here. @VictoriaPeckham
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Daley Thompson in the @Telegraph this morning . ‘Time for IOC to stand up and defend women's sport’
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‘She has made it OK, and less dangerous, to say true things of vital importance’. Share token .
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You’ve probably already seen this. ‘No figure has had the impact of JK Rowling’. Her composure in the face of death threats and fears for her family means that no one can really know what she has endured. It’s good to see this piece recognising her role.
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There’s a women’s rights protest outside the BBC tomorrow (Monday) morning. It’s to protest inaccuracy in the use of female pronouns for men, including criminal offenders. The organisers @TurnCollective say that describing men as ‘she’ and ‘her’ is unacceptable and misleading.
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‘Nurse admits harassing trans doctor before tribunal’. Awful framing. How any journalist could take this away from today’s evidence is quite remarkable and unduly selective. Citizen journalism @tribunaltweets allows us all to see the bias.
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‘People cannot change their biological sex’ . This may be a first for @bbcnews. Clip coming. This has been needed a long time.
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This story is several hours old. It is a huge story in Athletics. There has been plenty of time to prep a story and issue a breaking Tweet. There is nothing from the BBC at all. Some misses you can understand. This - no. There’s no justification. @AlexKayJelski
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‘As the solidly middle class doctor, still in his 20s, told the tribunal, “I’ve never been spoken to like that in my life’. @DalgetySusan on one of the most telling statements of the tribunal, and the class divide in the gender debate
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‘Transgender woman guilty of rape’. @BBCNews. This is no kind of woman. He is STILL ‘living as a man’ because he IS a man. Stop this disgusting practice of calling rapists ‘women’. We call this ‘dying on rapist hill’, and you are doing it.
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‘Rose Henderson can be named for the first time after a judge threw out an application for anonymity from the nurse. Sharon Langridge, an employment judge, ruled last week that there was no evidence for claims that reporting the full name would cause harm’. @Telegraph
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Lovely exclusive in the Sunday Times by Rosamund Irwin . ‘It was an ideological litmus test for entry into the senior civil service. I didn’t think I could even say that some people think it’s impossible to change sex’
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The number of trans-identified men used as contributors on apparently random BBC stories has generated interest. The BBC has its own contacts database but one resource it uses for stories/contributors is a company called NEON. >.
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‘When they say women cannot speak in public. it is incredibly frightening yet the whole world acts like this is normal. There have been very few reactions of comments to what is happening’. True. It’s taken five days to get this story up, for example.
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📣 New. ‘The @ScotExpress understands that at least a dozen complaints about his behaviour have been made to the GMC, which has the power to revoke medical licenses. The GMC has already come under fire for allowing Beth to classify himself as a woman on the register’. Link next
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Changed in the last half hour . The newsiest line was replaced by a line highlighting his claimed victim status . It’s a misrepresentation of the evidence, as he’s obviously not only asking for this .@BBCScotlandNews . This …. became this .
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‘Gender ruling ‘could lead to trans prisoners getting seriously hurt’ . Another outlet which has never covered the risk to women. It’s disturbing how shameless this is across outlets. @Independent
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We don’t use ‘c*s’ ever, and we deplore its use. Battles have been fought in newsrooms over this, and it’s one fight that’s been largely won. ‘C*s’ implies there are two different kinds of women, male women and female women. It’s not a scientific term, it’s a political term. >.
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Reposting because we want Gisele Pelicot to be at the top of our 100 Women pics.
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Today we learned from all established news outlets that some women have been banned from some women’s sports. We are working to ensure that this kind of linguistic capture comes to an end. Today, men and boys have been banned from women’s football and netball. Say male.
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An update on the Darlington nurses . ‘Female nurses ‘forced out of changing rooms’ after complaining about trans colleague’ @Telegraph
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Grave misunderstanding here that @iocmedia has helped to foment. Having XY and 5ARD means male with normal testosterone, not female with high testosterone. Journalists should not be struggling with this after over a decade. This is known.
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It’s true that RFK is a ‘controversial’ choice for the US Health brief. But interestingly, @BBCsarahsmith never once used that word to describe Rachel Levine, a man who claims to be female and recommended dropping age limits on child medical ‘transition’.
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‘The girls made the choice to not change with the biological male student present. Administrators then supervised the locker room to ensure that all girls were changing into their physical education clothes without protest’. @NRO
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“Where have large swathes of the media been? And sadly, I include the BBC in that outside of this programme…” A devastating critique of professional failure to stand up for truth and safeguarding from @hannahsbee on @BBCNewsnight
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‘Academics claim the term is out of date and should be replaced with ‘lead perinatal practitioner’. They say the word midwife ‘upholds the patriarchy’ and its use ‘subordinates all who give birth’. Obviously don’t like the word ‘mothers’ either. @Telegraph . Link next
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‘It is hard to believe it would be possible to study for, and pass, a medical degree without understanding that biological sex is laid down in chromosomes from the moment of conception’ . A Doctor Writes
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BBC’s Gary O’Donohue reporting that the biggest cheer in the stadium came with Trump’s ‘male and female’ comment. Sarah Smith put the clip in her Six o clock report. The realisation that it matters.
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This is news. Lesbians aren’t allowed a single sex group but gay men are.
Astonishingly, gay men have applied for, and been granted, the single-sex exemption for their gatherings. The Lesbian Action Group strongly support this and believe it is an outrage that lesbians are denied the same right to gather.
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‘Last night, after being contacted by the Mail, the NHS admitted that it has since withdrawn the training module and that it will be replaced in the next few weeks’. The power of - simply reporting what’s happening. @SexMattersOrg campaign and quotes
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‘Another protester screamed: 'I'm very manly. I have short hair and flat shoes. Let me in.’. Great pics and copy from yesterday’s event in the @MailOnline
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Well done to @afneil challenging Helen Webberley repeatedly and robustly. @TimesRadio giving the story the attention it deserves
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New. ‘The NHS spends as much on controversial transgender treatments as it does on common anti-depressants, penicillins or beta-blockers. In the first ten months of 2024/25 alone the figure was £88 million – up a fifth on the previous 12 months’. @MailOnline
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Many readers thought this very well-regarded piece by @soniasodha, prompted by the Sandie Peggie tribunal, was in the @guardian. Not surprisingly - the header’s confusing - but it was the @ObserverUK . The Guardian has not published a word about the tribunal. /
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Of course CNN interviewed the man who took a woman’s Oscar nomination. Of course he broke down in tears. It’s PR of the highest order.
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Hi @mattjroper . Did you know that one of your evening subs has changed what was no doubt a carefully worded headline on Beth Upton?. They’ve also changed the top paragraph. The old HL was a fair representation of the bulk of exchanges. The new one is sympathetic to Upton. /
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About BBC Health: this may shock. A concerned member of the public sent the WPATH FILES release to Fergus Walsh, the BBC’s Medical Editor on 11th March 2024. Because nothing was reported by BBC Health, they followed that email 6 days later with a second email containing /1.
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This is so bad. We know most people don’t read as far as the paragraph revealing it’s a man. Proceedings must by law be reported faithfully. But the fact that he’s male should be at the top, and female pronouns avoided. This👇is not required by law or IPSO
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This has had an immediate effect on media coverage. It’s global news. The press pack was huge.
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We note that the commentators *refused* to explain the issue to the audience. This is a dereliction of their journalistic duty. It was clear to the commentators, and it was clear to all who knew Khelif is male. The general public needed and was due an explanation.
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Trans-identified male comments on ‘culture wars’ - poor framing, Sky. ‘He walks like a Nazi and talks like a Nazi so I think it’s important we call it what it is’ - unfortunate from a man who walks like a man and talks like a man but says it’s important we call him what he isn’t
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It’s not good. All framed as ‘trans rights’, ‘trans issues’, ‘cultural issues’, ‘men’ and ‘boys’ don’t get a mention, male athletes actually described as females, no mention of women’s rights, no quotes from supportive female athletes. It’s inaccurate, and it’s biased. Link
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Congratulation to @tribunaltweets . Live tweeting a deeply sensitive case, with battles over privacy, language use and offence, intermittent technical issues, and onlookers keen to be indignant, is exceptionally hard. They are remarkable citizen journalists.
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You have to question why the BBC is now extremely obsessed with toilets. It’s been the primary question across many BBC outlets and the first point in the @BBCWomansHour introduction. It has never been concerned with men using women’s toilets and changing rooms. /.
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It’s appalling to choose to cover this when @BBCNorthAmerica has failed to write a single story about Chloe Cole or Riley Gaines, or take the lived experience of a single high school or college athlete who’s lost out to men. The Washington bureau picked a side a long time ago.
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Covering the Wadhwa story only scratches the surface. There's a much bigger investigation to be done on how many women's refuges and women's aid organisations in the UK will not promise to offer a single sex service. The Wadhwa case should prompt journalists to go further.
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A word of praise for @ReduxxMag and their journalists. It is hard, grinding, thankless toil with no lecture podiums or halls ringing with applause. It has broken so many stories at great risk, including personal risk. The work of giants 👏👏👏.
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‘This change is a small victory for those who bleed and for the students at Neale-Wade Academy’. Appalling, erasing language from @bloodygood__ . @BBCNews also fails to say ‘girls’. Women and girls are not bodily functions.
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Very distressing story in @thetimes by Jeremy Watson . Source @HotchkissRhona . Welcome the story, would like to see ‘male’ instead of ‘trans’. ‘Trans’ is why men say that want to search women - ‘male’ is why women don’t want to be searched by them. Link next
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Who is the missing woman from BBC 100 Women? . We’ll go first
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It finally happened - this was, astonishingly, Helen Joyce’s first litfest event since the publication of ‘Trans’. A testament to the power of persistence. Some noisy protesters but nothing was interrupted. Well done @HJoyceGender @bindelj @garylfrancione
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Dreadfully biased headline from @Independent . ‘Kemi Badenoch launches attack on David Tennant in row over trans rights’ - inews
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We call on the BBC to stop platforming trans-identifíed males on the boxing controversy. Last night Kelly Maloney and Joanna Harper on @R4WorldTonight - today Natalie Washington 👇. @iocmedia has made clear this is not a ‘trans’ issue. /
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‘We shouldn’t be pandering to dangerous male criminals in this farcical way. If that hurts their feelings, I think we can just about live with it’. @MichaelPDeacon in the Telegraph .Link next
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Most people don’t know that female inmates who object to a male presence in jail can have their sentences extended or parole rejected, in various parts of the world including the UK.
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨. Female inmates at Minnesota's Shakopee women's prison have come forward to reveal that trans-identified male transfers have caused a "climate of terror" in the facility. The women say they fear retaliation if they speak out.
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If you thought you’d seen the depths of affirmative journalism - read and weep. This is a ‘brave and stunning’ affirmation journey of a man who murdered a mother and her daughters. We’re sharing an archive link to keep the clicks low although it’s free to read. It’s outrageous.
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This is stunning from @sharrond62 and @mara_yamauchi in the face of appalling bias . Nothing but facts. BBC Global - your correspondents need to start leaving their own views in the locker room and start bringing their professional selves to work.
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Doctor Beth Upton hides his face as he leaves court. Interesting contrast between the privacy he says he needs and the privacy he says Sandie Peggie doesn’t need. ‘Trans doctor left 'upset and afraid' by nurse. Leads BBC Scotland page
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Not good enough @BBCWorldatOne . The intro script deliberately omits the fact that Wadhwa is self-identified ‘trans’ or male. Referred to with female pronouns throughout - we know this script would have had input and oversight from the R4 Bulls editor.
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From @JournalistJill in the @Telegraph . This is incredibly thorough. Bookmark. You’ll come back to it. Link next
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‘The chair of BBC Children in Need has quit over grants awarded to an LGBT organisation hit by child sex abuse scandals. ‘Rosie Millard accused the charity of institutional failure in a letter announcing she would step down’. Telegraph lift from Times
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Here’s the @heraldscotland exclusive . It’s a really thorough follow up. Says the Scottish Health Secretary was warned last year that the NHS Fife Trust was not operating within workplace laws on single sex facilities. Link next
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‘BBC News is blasted for 'misleading' report on trans women's milk’. Too long coming. Everyone knew this as soon as they saw it. BBC Complaints is not fit for purpose if it takes this long. @MailOnline
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Roz Adams has been successful in her case against Edinburgh Rape Crisis centre. This important case saw very little media coverage while ongoing. We will watch to see if this bias by omission is addressed tomorrow.
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No, he didn’t. He signed an order banning males from female sport.
President Trump has signed an executive order limiting female sports to women and girls. Some in the media will write that he "banned transgender people from sports." . He did no such thing. Disingenuous claims like these no longer resonate with the American people. The
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@joshuarhett We posted an archive because this type of journalism shouldn’t be funded by rage clicks. The narrative you seek to create, that if society doesn’t affirm trans-identified men they will become murderers and rapists, is depraved. This is corrupted journalism. Please reconsider.
If you thought you’d seen the depths of affirmative journalism - read and weep. This is a ‘brave and stunning’ affirmation journey of a man who murdered a mother and her daughters. We’re sharing an archive link to keep the clicks low although it’s free to read. It’s outrageous.
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Reminder: the BBC has not and still does not cover any of the protests at women’s meetings including smoke bombs, heckling, extreme noise harassment, threatening behaviour, screaming in faces etc. BBC - ‘Pride flag torn down and burned in 'hate crime'’
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‘Smith raped eight women, tried to murder his pregnant ex-girlfriend with garden shears and indecently assaulted a five-year-old’. Demands blending make up and surgery . He’s in Barlinnie. @ScottishSun
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Updated overnight . ‘Figure of 262,000 transgender people in England and Wales in the latest census was wrong, ONS finally admits’
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Thomas Bach to step down as Olympics president
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Latest from @telegraph - IOC faces legal.action over boxers Khelif and Yu-ting. Link on way
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The @telegraph explains in the first paragraph that Upton is a man . ‘It came on the first day of a tribunal case brought by Sandie Peggie, a nurse suspended by NHS Fife when she complained about sharing a changing room with Beth Upton, who was born a man but now identifies as a
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You remember this in the @ScotExpress by Editor Ben Borland. ‘A hearing ruled Dr Upton could be called a man, which is how the Scottish Daily Express will be referring to him’. A transactivist reported it to the police. Don’t let your editor claim that pronouns are trivial. /
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The BBC ran this glowing piece on Lucy Clark when he was appointed manager. @emmasmithjourno @steve_mawhinney.@samchadderton. should be equally interested now he’s replacing female players with men.
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The BBC has failed for over a decade to report the aggressive attacks and protests against women speaking on the issue of sex and gender. If you ever wanted a textbook example of shocking selective bias, this is it.
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Is the @Telegraph the only news outlet trying to draw attention to the fact that multiple individuals and organisations have announced they will break the law?
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Revolting use of female pronouns for a man who raped a baby. Yet we are to be grateful that it’s published by mainstream media at all - a Faustian bargain . ‘The baby had reconstructive surgery to repair injuries from the diabolical attack’. @mailonline
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To clear up a misunderstanding: sex verification in sport is not intrusive. No one needs to look inside underwear. A cheek swab is all that’s needed.
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Not a woman of any kind, and should be referred to as he, not they. We’ll register a formal complaint. Some improvement but the BBC needs to understand it does not have to respect a rapist’s wishes not to be called ‘he’.
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@andrewdoyle_com Why is Naga Munchetty calling it a documentary? . It’s very odd but the BBC has always either challenged or ignored Badenoch because of her position on trans-identified men. It colours the entire approach.
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Julie Bindel to Helen Joyce at Oxford LitFest - ‘Why did journalists leave this topic alone for so long?’. Helen: ‘Young people were coming into journalism with the idea that it was their job to be an advocate, and senior people in newsrooms weren’t ready for that. ’./
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The only justifiable reason for @skynews and @bbcnews to ignore this story could have been that they were waiting for a statement from the Health Secretary. That reason no longer exists.
Puberty Blockers. A 🧵 . Children’s healthcare must always be led by evidence. Medicine given to children must always be proven safe and effective first. I know there’s lots of fear and anxiety. Let me explain why this decision was taken. 1/9.
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‘They told her 'you won't die, I promise you'’. One use of male pronouns, then @mailonline reverts to the rapist’s choice, despite the victim clearly describing the rapist as a man in court . It’s not just inaccurate, it elevates the rapist over his victim
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This was fantastic journalism by @hannahsbee, which broke just the day before the vote. That the BMA is now hunting the leak shows us how important are transparency and open reporting on sex and gender. @guardian.@denis_campbell
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Some deadly serious questions for the BBC about consent. It’s not just eyeroll territory. Did the other men know that a woman would be on the show that they might be obliged to kiss and flirt with? . Were the other men told that they had to comply with self-ID and heterosexual
Very shocked at the thinking behind this. It’s clearly homophobic.
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