Thread by @MForstater

Some things that happened this summer

6 June - JKR tweeted about "people who menstruate" setting off a twitter storm which was picked up by media around the world.

The BBC reported nothing.

10 June - Rowling published her “TERF Wars” essay.

Still the BBC said nothing.

11 June Eddie Redmayne and Daniel Radcliffe criticised

The BBC reported on it

12 June - BBC report on "Rupert Grint joins JK Rowling Transgender Row

14 June Sunday Times leak of Tory plans to drop self ID

The BBC didn't report it

19 June cross party LGBT group issued a statement lgbtconservatives.org.uk/news/cross-par…

The BBC report on this , also including a quote by @polblonde
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-531010…

Their report misstated the law

@fairplaywomen wrote to let them know, and they make a correction

21 June @TransMediaWatch sent a 150 signatory letter of complaint about the inclusion of Joan Smith's quote and the correction calling FPFW "anti trans ideologues"

hiyamaya.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/letter…

Helen Belcher suggests they are breaking the law by including gender critical women's voices on stories about GRA reform

Belcher demands the BBC remove the comment by Joan Smith and says that unspecified gender critical groups are founded on hate speech

.... 20 October @SarahPedersen2 mentions @Womans_Place_UK @fairplaywomen @FiLiA_charity in @BBCWomansHour interview and BBC presenter says “we have to be clear, which are groups that some people have described, in some circumstances, as transphobic”.
fairplayforwomen.com/wh/

Is this a policy in response to pressure?

Who is calling the shots?

Smeering feminist activism on Women's Hour of all places

hiyamaya.net/2020/06/23/whe…