""On transgender [people], I've had some stand up rows with really senior people at the BBC who are so far over in the kind of JK Rowling camp. "And I think most young people - I'm not pretending I'm young here Rory, but I do talk to a lot of young people - I think they think on the trans issue that the BBC is the opposite of what Michael Prescott's report is saying that it is.""
""The BBC has, over the past few years, regularly faced criticism for its coverage of trans issues, with campaigners claiming it is institutionally anti-trans. Most infamously was its October 2021 article spuriously claiming that cisgender lesbians were being "pressured" into having sex with trans women. The article cites three anonymous cis women who claimed they had faced harassment for only dating "biologically female" women. In the article, the BBC referenced a poll by gender-critical campaign group Get the L Out, which reported that 56 per cent of people had been pressu"
A number of senior BBC officials are described as aligned with JK Rowling's gender-critical stance on transgender issues and confrontations have occurred. The BBC director general Tim Davie resigned after a leaked internal memo accused the broadcaster of misleading viewers by editing a speech by US president Donald Trump. The leaked memo alleged the BBC was pushing a "pro-trans agenda" by censoring content on LGBTQ+ issues. Public criticism of the BBC's coverage of trans matters has increased, including an October 2021 article that claimed cisgender lesbians were being pressured into sex with trans women, citing anonymous sources and a poll.
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