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I just filled out this form on the BBC website. Here���s what I wrote, based on this open letter to the BCC Upper Management and Editorial Staff.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-57853385

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Innacurate reporting and unreliable source

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The article is based on a single self selected study of 80 individuals sourced from Get The L Out, a group who, prior to the survey, were already united by anti-trans views.

This study breaks the BBC���s own guidelines about using surveys as sources for claims in coverage, as it is self-selected, with a small sample size and a clear bias held by those self-selected to respond.

The article dangerously frames this as a widespread issue, whilst simultaneously acknowledging that there is no actual evidence to that effect outside of isolated claims and cherry picked individual cases.

The article routinely implies that transgender women are not women, uncritically quoting people who call transgender women men without at any point clarifying that this is ignoring their legal status as women in the UK.

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Published on October 27, 2021 09:17
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