The term “gender based violence” obscures the fact the issue is male violence against women and girls.

The term “child marriage” obscures the fact the issue that it’s the sale of little girls to men.

The insistence by the UN to only use gender and not sex can be very harmful.

Emily Matlis said they were terrified to report this story, no other part of the BBC would touch it. Hannah Barnes left the BBC shortly afterwards. Deb Cohen has said she suffered for it. Many, many others have claimed to have been fired, smeared, silenced by the clearly hostile BBC culture.

Over 20yrs, trans rights have run roughshod over women’s rights.

The Supreme Court confirmed that we do have rights to single sex spaces, services, sports; that sex is real, immutable and biological.

The BBC failed to report impartially on this and pushed harmful medical interventions for kids.

The IOC have indicated that they’ll required sex verification for all female athletes in the Olympics. The sticking point seems to be FIFA who are still allowing males with DSDs to play in women’s football.

It was on the main lunchtime news on BBC One - I saw it live and the newsreader definitely said “a biological male who identifies as a woman”. Same on Radio 4 news. However, by the late evening 10 o’clock news they’d changed the script to “born male who now identifies as a woman”.

It’s long been accepted in the UK that you shouldn’t operate on the genitals of DSD kids unless medically necessary. It’s as harmful as female genital mutilation or giving kids distressed about their sexed bodies puberty blockers and x sex hormones. People with PCOS are female, with PAIS male.

There’s plenty of evidence of trans identified males committing violent and sex crimes against women and children. Prison statistics from the UK, US and Canada show that trans women are at least as likely to be a risk, if not significant more so, as any other man.

We’ll get misogynists populists waving 🇬🇧

Or populist misogynists waving 🏳️‍⚧️

I know which I’d prefer but either way women and girls will lose.

I’ve no doubt Gibb has added to the BBCs woes.

However, that doesn’t change the fact that the BBC has been clearly captured by a niche, harmful gender identity ideology and suppressed inconvenient news and opinions that challenge it, to the detriment of women and children and the BBCs reputation.

Fair enough. I think you’re showing your compassion only extends to a few and not to vulnerable women and girls.

For info, heres a link to the Sullivan Review which analysed the harms of conflating sex and gender in statistics

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The idea that some men are women has meant the police recording these criminals as females and sometimes placing them in the female prison estate. That has exposed female prisoners to an unacceptable risk of harm and skewed data, which ultimately makes it harder to understand reduce these crimes.

In the UK only male people can be commit rape.

There are several, eg Lexi Sackler, Karen White, Maddison Wilson, for whom the BBC used female language.

The reporting of murderer Scarlet Blake was amongst the worst as there was originally no mention of his trans status.

They’ve spent years undermining their credibility by promoting a harmful niche ideology that some men are women (often the most sexist and offensive caricatures.) Calling rapists women, celebrating men in women’s sports and the sterilisation and mutilation of kids, and silencing women who disagree

They’ve spent years undermining their credibility by promoting a harmful niche ideology that some men are women (often the most sexist and offensive caricatures.) Calling rapists women, celebrating men in women’s sports and the sterilisation and mutilation of kids, and silencing women who disagree

If you think recognising our sex must mean forcing us into narrow boxes, that our biology is disgusting and shameful, that being female means inherently being second class or subhuman, then I think that says a lot more about your prejudices than mine.

Ok, that’s quite a diatribe. To be clear, I’m a left wing feminist and atheist. I don’t want you dead or dehumanised. I don’t think our sex should determine what behaviours or roles are allowed. But equality for women means acknowledging sex because our bodies are different and males pose a risk

So the issue here is society being cruel to people with, what you call, intersex conditions.

So you could a) campaign to make society more tolerant
Or b) force society to reject the notion of sex and remove rights from, in particular, women and girls.

Personally, I think a) is a better option