Thread by @charlesworth102

@BBCNews There are multiple problems with the quality of journalism in this piece by Ben Hunte, your newly appointed LGBT correspondent.
BBC News - Munroe Bergdorf: NSPCC cuts ties with transgender activist bbc.com/news/uk-485729…

1/ Sources. Hunte claims that the NSPCC has received "transphobic letters". Who says this? The NSPCC has not commented ATOW so how do we know this is true?

2/ Bergdorf claims there is a "transphobic lobby". Is there? How is it manifest? A good journalist would interrogate this assertion - not repeat it as truth. There is a further quote from a Bergdorf spokesperson that the "NSPCC is bowing down to transphobic pressure"

3/ There is no attempt to reflect the views of those people who do not think Bergdorf is a suitable person to be an ambassador for the NSPCC's Childline.

4/ If Ben Hunte had contacted any of the groups and individuals concerned about Bergdorf's NSPCC role he would have found people who could point to Bergdorf's past associations and words, especially in relation to children

5/ For instance Bergdorf has asked children to get in contact directly - behind the backs of their parents - if they have any gender issues. Bergdorf has also interviewed, approvingly, the prepubescent and autistic child Desmond, who performs drag acts in front of gay men.

6/ Bergdorf has had the misfortune to be dropped by two big organisations already, L'Oreal and the Labour Party over past derogatory comments on race and lesbians. Warning bells should have been ringing with senior editors.

7/ Why is the BBC content to let their standard of journalism drop when dealing with LGBT issues? They don't employ anti-vaxxers to be health correspondents, or climate change deniers at environment. But with LGBT issues words like transphobia get idly and ignorantly dropped in.

8/ Does Ben Hunte believe it is possible to change sex, to be born in the wrong body, that we have a thing called "gender identity"? If he believes any of these things he should not be working as a BBC journalist.

9/ Why is he not looking at stories where there is a genuine debate? Women's sports, letting natal boys into the Girl Guides, the troubles at the Tavistock, the huge increase in the number of teenage girls with ROGD, the debates with the Scottish parliament on sex and gender

10/ and the sudden and massive flowering of women's groups who are raising serious objections to the unthinking trans narrative. Here's some for you Ben. @Transgendertrd @WPUK @fairplaywomen Go and speak to them. You won't find a single transphobe among them

11/ I know there are people at the BBC who agree with all of the above but are unable to say or do anything. This is not good enough. The BBC must overhaul its whole approach to the trans debate. Millions of women will thank you for it.