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@telegraph · 5h 🚨 EXCLUSIVE: BBC bosses “ignored” warnings about pro-transgender bias in its sports coverage, The Telegraph can reveal. ![]() Female staff raised concerns about uncritical reporting on transgender athletes almost five years ago, messages reveal BBC Sport bosses were told almost five years ago that stories about trans athletes were often uncritical and celebratory “puff pieces”, while glossing over any potentially negative impact on women’s sports. However, insiders claim that the BBC persisted with overwhelmingly positive coverage of otherwise controversial athletes, including Lia Thomas, the biologically male swimmer, the weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, the cyclist Austin Killips and Imane Khelif, the boxer. BBC staff have reported feeling ignored and feeling unable to voice opinions that went against the prevailing orthodoxy of affirming transgender identity BBC Sport is currently led by Alex Kay-Jelski, who faced criticism for a column he wrote for The Times in 2019 while he was the newspaper’s sports editor. In the piece, he wrote that Martina Navratilova, the nine-time Wimbledon champion, and the Olympic swimming medallist Sharron Davies, both vocal opponents of allowing biological males to compete in women’s categories, were “not experts” on the matter of trans participation in sport. Mr Kay-Jelski appeared to compare those who portrayed trans athletes as being “threatening” to racists who warned, “Don’t let black men in the same shops as you or they’ll rape your women”. Following widespread criticism of his appointment as BBC Sport director in 2024, including from the Harry Potter author JK Rowling, Mr Kay-Jelski said he would leave his views “at the door”. ![]() ![]() https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...ports-stories/ |
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[BBC bosses “ignored” warnings about
pro-transgender bias in its sports coverage, The Telegraph can reveal.] Yes, all part of the mess, Tim Davie created. Cultural Secretary Lisa Nandy MP to speak in Parliament today about the BBC. |
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Kemi Badenoch
@KemiBadenoch · 3h From its coverage of sex and gender, to lopsided coverage of Gaza, to high profile mistakes, the BBC has continually let down licence fee payers. We ought to treasure the BBC, but for that to happen it must learn from its mistakes, instead of sneering at those who point them out. |
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I honestly don't believe that the public would like me, especially early on.
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I'm not saying that the Trans singers aren't good singers (they're not mainstream popular for starters, so it puts them in better stead to be good nowadays) but the BBC doesn't care about good singing, and they never have done tbh.
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Because the BBC is not exactly a company that I would look for if I'm looking for good Musicians.
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So Glenn's speculations are based in some accuracy from what I've personally seen on Social Media and stuff.
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The most important issue in the country? No. The most important issue currently in this country is Starmer trying to slowly get more control over our freedoms, followed very closely by law & order needing a massive overhaul and the NHS also needing a massive overhaul. Also the class system that still very much exists in this country I would argue is more important than immigration.
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Glenn has never had a good word to day to or about me for years.
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