So, earlier this week I was cleared by my professional regulator following a complaint. Complaints from people who don't like my politics are pretty commonplace* so I don't usually bother to tweet when I am cleared.
*E.g. I have actually been cleared on two complaints this week.
*E.g. I have actually been cleared on two complaints this week.
This complaint related to my work arguing for greater respect for trans people. But it was notable because it was made by a BBC journalist who wrote to my regulator from his BBC email address.
That journalist has written some of the many pieces the BBC chooses to carry that are hostile to the trans community. And he sought to bounce my regulator into issuing a statement condemning me for an interview I gave about the Bell case.
The email he sent to my regulator was in the form of a request for comment but was phrased in hostile terms and contained assertions that were false and can only have been included in an attempt to impugn my motives.
Although this is the first time a BBC journalist has, I believe, misused the power of the BBC to attempt to damage me, I am aware of other occasions on which BBC editorial staff have sought to advance their personal anti-trans agenda by complaining from their BBC email addresses.
I haven't been able to persuade the targets of those other complaints to publicise the conduct. They fear the repercussions. But I want to put on the record that this is happening and it is an abuse.
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