twitter post that also went nowhere
Please complain to the BBC first. The BBC’s regulator Ofcom may later consider a complaint but only after the BBC has replied in full. If so we’ll tell you how to contact Ofcom. The exception is for a complaint about alleged unfairness or infringement of privacy to you (not someone else). These can be made either to the BBC or Ofcom first, but not to both.
they did, and the BBC "Executive Complaints Unit" responded here
The Head of the ECU found that the article, though a legitimate piece of journ*lism overall, fell below the BBC’s standards of accuracy in two respects: the headline gave the misleading impression that the focus of the article would be on pressure applied by trans women, and the treatment of the survey conducted by Get the L Out did not make sufficiently clear that it lacked statistical validity. He also found a breach of standards in connection with one contribution to the article (subsequently removed) which he considered to have been appropriately addressed by an update added to the article. The complaints were therefore partly upheld in relation to accuracy and resolved in relation to the deleted contribution.
obviously that wasn't good enough for the women (new edition) so they're escalating their complaints
Trans activism UK responded and encouraged the anti-hate soldiers to go to ofcom. Wait, who? Their twitter account has 6,308 followers and the "official response" is hosted on what I assume to be the one person behind this "organisation"'s blog:
TL;DR - My name is Laura, and I've spent the past several years working as a full time video game critic, video creator, podcaster, author, and all around maker of things. You may know me as a co-host on the Podquisition Podcast, a cast member on the D&D Podcast Dice Funk, half of Queer & Pleasant Strangers, or as the former News Editor at Kotaku UK, Former UK EIC at Destructoid, or a freelance contributor to Polygon, IGN, Vice, Rock Paper Shotgun, The Guardian, and a bunch of other places.
Alternatively, you might know me because of my upcoming published books, Last summer I published the autism and LGBT status centric memoir Uncomfortable Labels, and in 2021 I'm publishing the silly video game butt centric Things I Learned From Mario's Butt, as welkl as an anthology of gender affirming stories titled Gender Euphoria.
all valuable work
The BBC argues that there is not enough consensus on what does or does not constitute transphobia, and therefore due impartiality doesn’t require them to deplatform transphobic groups in the same manner.
chuds at the BBC amplifying hate speech
The BBC claims that it is not misgendering to refer to a trans woman as a “biological male”, or to describe their body as “male”, and that doing so in no way contradicts a trans woman’s status as legally female, which is honestly a ridiculous claim to make.
BBC journos need to take the advanced biology course
With regards to the inclusion of Lily Cade in the article, the ECU denies that the BBC or Caroline Lowbridge were aware of Cade’s sexual assault allegations prior to the piece’s publication. However, it does not address that these allegations were public knowledge, that they failed to spot them before publishing the article, and that they were incredibly slow to remove her from the piece.
lol apparently the BBC had included an interview with a lesbian (legacy) male feminist
Speaking more generally, the BBC ECU response seems to take the stance that the article did not contribute to perpetuating or increasing a belief in harmful stereotypes about a minority group. We believe that this is easy to disprove, as the comments on social media where the piece was posted on Twitter and Facebook were overwhelmingly filled with commenters using the piece as “evidence” that they were right to believe most trans women were male feminists, and as such should have fewer legal rights.
The piece was celebrated by anti-trans hate groups, using it to legitimise their views due to it having been published by such a renowned broadcasting company, which we believe contributed to harmful stereotypes held against trans women.
While the BBC acknowledged many of our serious complaints about the piece, they have refused to take the story down, they have not made significant changes to alert readers today of the flaws in the piece, and they have not amended the piece to make its flaws and biases clear to readers.
The piece as it currently stands still platforms groups like Get The L Out and the LGB Alliance without context, it still cites a statistically insignificant survey, and it still does not contextualise that one of the interviewees, a cis lesbian, admitted to the very crime the article suggested trans women were at risk of committing.
The lack of amendment and correction can still cause harm, as can the failure to truly explain the dangers of the misinformation that remains within the article.
harmful speech and dangerous misinformation, can't believe how far the BBC has fallen
they then go on to encourage people to report it to the uk media gigajannies, and the no-name "transgender journ*list" redditor did, in that medium post:
The BBC report that the group responsible for this poll, Get The L Out, demonstrated at multiple Pride marches.
What they don’t include is that this group invaded London Pride march in 2018 with signs specifically designed to make others feel unsafe and unwelcome; such as “trans activism erases lesbians” and others which dogwhistled their exclusionary politics.
how is that a dogwhistle it's quite direct lol
The piece by the BBC continues its platforming of transphobic conspiracy theories with its take on ‘the cotton ceiling’. Where the BBC assert things like “cotton is a reference to women’s underwear” however that is not true. This is a misrepresentation by anti-trans activists specifically to characterise transgender women as predatory men. The cotton does refer to underwear, yes, but the cotton ceiling as a concept is not exclusive to transgender lesbians and is instead an umbrella term referring to all of the ways in which our prejudices and biases can impact our sexual relationships.
"however that is not true" or "the cotton does refer to underwear, yes", which is it
Changes made to the article since people began complaining about it include; changing the title slightly, adding a small paragraph about Get The L Out’s study not being statistically significant, adding some extra comments by trans people who oppose the narrative being manufactured and removing the section on Lily Cade. This quite simply does not cover the fact that this article exists solely to launder the views of anti-trans activists and make them appear justifiable.
so true, transmisia of any kind is never justifiable!
This wasn’t journ*lism. At best this was hate-fueled gossip. Hate-fueled gossip which, coming from our state broadcaster no less, has the power to do untold damage to the health and safety of the marginalised community I belong to.
What do you think will happen?:
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Yeah, we've officially reached that point where it is transphobic to interview women who have been pressured by s into having s*x with them.
Good job, everyone!
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The most oppressed group, being genocided everyday. They deserve this win
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Gemma Stone is the troid who bragged about waving his peepee all over in women's rooms, putting his peepee on door handles in women's rooms, pissing on potty seats, threatening to mouth r*pe women, sending death threats to female public figures, etc. The usual troid stuff
Anyway, he considers himself an important alist and got bussy busted like a year or two ago about people nooticing what a piece of shit he was so he quit the Internet for good because literal neo Nazis were going to lynch him or something. But, like all attention starved s, not getting attention almost killed him so he was back online within weeks of him being super scared for his safety.
Eternal bong face
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Its transphobic to cry while watching your wife be r*ped bigot
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Snapshots:
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archive.ph (click to archive)
ghostarchive.org (click to archive)
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sentient and mean
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Snappy’s not holding back anymore.
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unzips
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Can't prove them wrong so I'll just call them transphobic
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most people are straight, so most s are probably going to be 'straight'. le science
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That is a lot of autism for one post. Everyone involved, including OP.
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Remember foid, not liking a feminine peepee is discriminatory. Also. mirring this lady(male)'s adam apple
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The only people in the history of the world who have argued that “dating preferences are discrimination” are trains and incels and in a lot of ways they’re the same group.
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In 100 years society will have fully accepted the Intel to catgirl pipeline theory
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her adams apple is like DANGER DANGER WILL ROBINSON
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I bet if she put a cute choker on it would totally cover it up and no one would be the wiser
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why TF r Black folk added here 💀 that’s a whole butt man who can take off his agp woman’s face I can’t fricking skin myself ffs
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Few groups hate black women as much as white trans women, they really fell they can boldly say stuff like "if you are ok having s*x with black women you should be ok having s*x with me", or other variations of "if you see EVEN black woman as woman then my AGP butt should be a woman too" with no repercussions.
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u r a foid then huh wasn’t sure but daaaang this seems hella terfy n I fricking love it 🥰 ye I used to post screenies to the GC subs of cac s saying this shit it ain’t uncommon at all I was more shitposting in my earlier comment
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THAT LADY HAS A FUNNY LUMP IN HER THROAT!
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Controversial, but I side with the cute journ*list rather than the hideous troids
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If it's britbong vs train you lose no matter what
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Bong genetics skipped her. Maybe she's Polish.
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The original article was tailer made for rdrama. Shit was put up on October of 2021 and trains cannot evict it from their heads since. They will not stop till the article is taken down and I am going to bet it will.
I remember seeing the original article posted here and that was the funniest shit ever right next to that phrase “cotton ceiling” trains invented because they couldn’t get in lesbians panties.
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Thinking that shaming women into dating them is a viable strategy is proof that the reddit trains were clueless neurodivergent moids before(and after) they hatched.
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BBC is evil, watch NHK instead! :3
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No.
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poor male feminists
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why do i care?
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This seems like the least relevant issue for "TERFs" to focus on. Oh no, crazy men have crazy opinions, whatever shall I do?
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This is so tame. When I was a kid, the BBC was actually getting into scandals about cool stuff, like when the army just fricking straight up murdered 3 micks on the street in Gibraltar in broad daylight and they wouldn't report it. And when ITV did they got their license revoked.
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Let's do some heckin' science!
A 2015 survey of roughly 3,000 American trans women showed that at least 60% were attracted to women.[5] Of the trans women respondents 27% answered gay, lesbian, or same-gender-loving, 20% answered bisexual, 19% heterosexual, 16% pansexual, 6% answered asexual, 6% queer, and 6% did not answer.[3]
19% said they're heterosexual (only want to sleep with MEN) which means the the remaining 81% want to r*pe cis lesbians with their GIRLPEEPEE
transwomen are literally just incels who have taken the final step to slither their way into a woman's bed
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In this moment I am gender euphoric. Not because of any phony surgeon's blessings. But because, I am feminized by my soy.
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we here at rdrama are more like a TERF archipelago
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News
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Hopefully the BBC goes under soon. And the trans who are malesplaining to lesbians just go to prison. And london sink into the ocean like in the 90s smash hit with rutger hauer Split Second
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I can’t even imagine reporting a post or comment. Trains write a whole butt article because they want something removed. Why are they so obsessed with control?
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Trans are truly a blessing to the world, putting doubt on all phobias now, even that the insult may be overused.
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Lesbos don't like it
Suck the girl peepee
Suck the girl peepee
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