I just want to reiterate, if you are using the front page of national newspapers to say how the media are biased against you, the standing assumption is that you are acting in bad faith. Remarkably, being silent is a key component of being silenced.

By reading the news and watching the BBC, by listening to the Prime Minister and his cabinet...

Social media helps children like Brianna find community and somewhere they can be themselves. One of her classmates killed her.

This does not help children, it isolates them from support.

They loved her. She loved them.

and they were all only able to find each other and be those beacons of support because they had phones.

If you want to take that away from kids like Brianna? fine. do what evil shit you want.

But take her name out of your god damn mouth. @charlotte2153.bsky.social

@charlotte2153.bsky.social they talked about everything, all day every day. She helped some of them access transition support and healthcare - a thing which your government is banning from trans youth in her country now.

They even risked contempt of court by posting her killers names before trial.

I can say with confidence, having not even watched the BBC, that no trans person has been on this week. There are two reasons I can do this:

1. The BBC never has any trans people on to discuss trans people or our rights or anything.
2. If a trans person was on, we'd have heard about it very loudly.

The BBC has no pro-trans bias. The BBC is appalling on trans issues, just like the rest of the media.

I think the combination of the dominance by the BBC of news, together with the levels of trust it enjoys, gives it a degree of influence which is unhealthy for it and for democracy. And it uses them to perpetuate a status quo-ism which is demonstrably failing the nation.