Thread by @DadTrans

The BBC is institutionally transphobic
The BBC is institutionally transphobic
The BBC is institutionally transphobic
The BBC is institutionally transphobic
The BBC is institutionally transphobic
The BBC is institutionally transphobic
#BBCTransphobia

The BBC removes support for LGBT children & young people
#BBCTranspobia pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/10/bbc…

Secret BBC Wattsapp group overrun with toxic transphobia.

"A senior producer replied: “I would agree, if it was just a case of being nice. But it erases the meaning of ‘woman’, you can’t define women’s rights if you can’t define women."
#BBCTransphobia
buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/…

BBC Newsnight gave a platform to anti trans twitter trolls 'concerned' about rise in reported depression from group of 44 youth who received blockers via NHS rather than the 4+ youth on the waiting list who died before they got them
#BBCTransphobia
pinknews.co.uk/2019/07/23/vie…

The BBC (along with every major UK broadcaster) has Zero Trans staff in senior roles in programme making, out of 95,810 across the industry.
#BBCTransphobia

#NewsNight presenters making false & harmful insinuations that transgender children have access to surgery (minimum age for Trans surgeries on the NHS is 17 in the UK, though practically inaccessible due to 4+ year waiting lists)
#BBCTransphobia

#NewsNight presenter on Radio4 Interview uncritically using the term 'Sudden Onset' gender dysphoria.
This originates from a single controversial study (Littman 2018, PLUS One) which then retracted the debunked hokum of ROGD "as a formal mental health diagnosis". #BBCTransphobia

#NewsNight presenter uncritically parroting the fabricated Evangelical Christian propaganda trope that Statutory Declaration of gender identity would lead to increased danger from "predatory men" #BBCTransphobia

#NewsNight presenter agrees with armchair diagnosis of yours truly by a Guardian writer, after instigating pile on rather than engage in the questions asked
#BBCTransphobia

If the BBC employed any trans people in senior commissioning roles, maybe they wouldn't have made a programme fronted by former World Tennis ace) Martina Navratilova - who also happens to be hugely anti Trans.
#BBCTransphobia
theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb…

Who can forget infamous BBC documentary "Transgender Kids Who Knows Best" which had Kenneth Zucker (Disgraced reparative therapist) who compared a child coming out as transgender, with saying they area a dog. We wrote about it at the time. #BBCTransphobia growinguptransgender.com/2017/01/13/bbc…

Or this Victoria Derbyshire programme which was supposed to be on the GRA, but which was instead used by the two anti trans lobbyists on the panel to launch a campaign against Trans girls in the Girl Guides & stir up hate. growinguptransgender.com/2018/03/05/my-…

Anti Trans agitators are often asked to speak on trans issues. Graham Lineham, formerly Twitter's biggest transphobe, was recently on Newsnight comparing Trans healthcare with "Nazism" #BBCTransphobia pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/24/gra…

I cannot count the number of times when I have seen newly created (often evangelical funded) anti-trans lobby groups named as 'feminist campaigns' while any trans person, however distinguished is branded as a 'Trans Activist' - see e.g. below examples from BBCNews
#BBCTransphobia

Evangelical funded, as in Linda Bellos, one of the women in the BBC "feminists vs Trans activists" video who was allegedly paid & stood alongside the Heritage Foundation to campaign AGAINST LGBT employment protections in the recent USA supreme court case pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/09/les…

And also in the BBC 'feminists video' Venice Allen, kicked out of labour for not leaving a Trans teenager alone, also one of a group involved in the USA Heritage Foundation trip #BBCTransphobia archive.is/jD9au

There is much, much more. I don't think a week has gone by without Radio 4 or the BBC debating 'Transgender people' with a lack of clarity, inviting those lobbying against trans rights to speak, platforming & seemingly purposefully advancing an anti trans rights agenda.

A recent letter signed by MPs including Crispin Blunt called out "institutional discrimination & hatred" of the BBC who are treating lives as a "culture war within which your anti-trans journalists are given free rein to take potshots at trans people"
pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/22/bbc…

There used to be a #whistleblowing Twitter account reporting on Transphobia, set up by a (now ex) BBC employee. When she talked to a BBC Diversity & Inclusion lead about NewsNight transphobia their response was: I'm not aware that there's a problem .

https://twitter.com/rvedotrc/status/1275380963959279624

The BBC has to change. You need to get in the experts such as @AllAboutTrans to come in & work with you - (you may remember they helped you find your first Trans character on Eastenders, & helped make the then groundbreaking "Boy Meets Girl" happen. That was FIVE YEARS AGO.

What have you done since?
What can you do now?

Send everyone with any role in programme making/ commissioning a link to @Disclosure_Doc & a copy of "Gender Explorers" by @JustJuno1. Give jobs to trans filmmakers - have you been on ~@YouTube? There is some extraordinary talent.

The superlative @PoseOnFX has been a massive hit for you on because it is incredible. Janet Mock is doing amazing things with Netflix, & Amazon is stepping up their game commissioning some brilliant programmes with Trans actors in Trans & Cis roles including children's TV.

If Ryan Murphy can go in less than a decade from some of the most transphobic television ever made (in NipTuck) to winning awards & acclaim for authenticity & inclusion with a team of Trans producers for Pose, then you can turn it around too. End #BBCTransphobia #TimeToChange End

#Solidarity to 400+ trans people working for the BBC. Their employer this week defending a tiny step to trans inclusion "The BBC isn’t requiring anyone to do anything; there is simply a staff article on our intranet that talks about gender identity at work & the use of pronouns."

If you have learnt anything and feel like donating to some amazing charities & initiatives helping to support trans people (especially LGBT children & young people), I can recommend: @aktcharity; @Genderintell @Mermaids_Gender @COLOURSyouthuk. Also Employ Trans people!