Tory MP Damian Green. (Getty/ DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP)
Conservative MP Damian Green has suggested challenging JK Rowling’s views on trans rights is the same as calling her an “old-fashioned racist”.
Green, who is a former
Channel 4 News reporter and was Theresa May’s first secretary of state following the 2017 election, made the comments at a hearing of the Commons Culture Select Committee on Tuesday (15 December), during a discussion on coverage of trans issues by the BBC.
When asked about the issue at the hearing, Dame Melanie Dawes, head of UK communications regulator Ofcom, said it was “extremely inappropriate” for broadcasters to seek to “balance” appearances by transgender people with activists from anti-trans pressure groups.