Top BBC executives intervened to tweak an article written by a staffer who used the phrase 'assigned female at birth' to describe women. Rhodri Talfan Davies, the BBC's director of nations, reportedly requested 'women' replace the phrase 'assigned female at birth' in a March 26 feature on endometriosis.
And, predictably, the online 'community' exploded in rage:
According to the Times, internal information show readers' complaints about the article increased after the phrasing was edited.
Yet for once, the BBC stuck to their guns. And also expanded their corrections:
Another article was recently updated about a suspected serial killer to make clear she had only recently started identifying as a transgender woman.Interesting! Did they, perhaps, sense which way the wind was starting to blow?
But battles are always fought on more than one front:
An NHS equality chief has rallied colleagues and urged them to ignore the ruling from a government watchdog which states trans people can be legally excluded from single-sex wards.
Tara Hewitt, the group head of equality, diversity and inclusion at Northern Care Alliance NHS Group, slammed the ruling as 'transphobic' and urged her colleagues to ignore its guidance.
Why would a woman who has the position of equality chief be so vehement (and wrong) in her mutiny against...
Oh. Another thing that battles must beware of - enemy infiltration.
