Ofcom chief compares gender-critics to racists
18 Dec 2020
bbc.co.uk/news
Ofcom’s Chief Executive has compared people who disagree with radical gender ideology to “racists” during a discussion about BBC impartiality.
Dame Melanie Dawes suggested to the Commons Culture Select Committee that it is “extremely inappropriate” for those who believe biological sex cannot be changed to be included in TV or radio debates around transgenderism.
She was responding to comments made by SNP MP John Nicolson, a former BBC presenter, who complained that by attempting to bring balance to debates, the BBC was ‘attacking’ trans people.
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Nicolson had asked what could be done to prevent the BBC from “calling in transphobic groups like the so-called LGB Alliance to give a counter argument”.