A senior BBC news presenter has broken neutrality rules by referring to transgender women as “males” on live air, the BBC has decided.
Justin Webb, one of the leading radio news anchors today The program was holding a discussion in August 2023 about whether transgender male chess players have an advantage over female competitors.
During the discussion, Webb referred to “trans women, meaning males.”
now the sun Reports indicate that the company has determined that the presenter has violated its gender and sexuality neutrality rules. The newspaper reported that the BBC’s Editorial Complaints Department concluded after an investigation that the radio presenter “gave the impression that he supported one point of view in a highly controversial area.”
the sun He adds that the BBC also received 287 complaints about another recent news story, when it covered a report claiming that milk from transgender women was as good for babies as breast milk from biological women.