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ABC shuts down official Twitter accounts due to 'toxic interactions' (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The BBC has a history of being antitrans?

That's quite a revelation to me, it has more of a reputation of being extremely liberal and indeed any even remotely right winger here usually whinges and moans about how "woke" it is πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

Do you know what in particular triggered their stance that they believed the BBC anti-trans?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Do you know what in particular triggered their stance that they believed the BBC anti-trans?

There is a series by Shaun (a Youtuber) about anti trans stuff at the BBC and one article in particular.

First of 4 Videos is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4buJMMiwcg

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thank you for that, most interesting.

It's odd given their usually quite liberal stance... I wonder if there some old conservatism creeping in with the Tories being in power for so long..?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Sadly in UK transphobia seems to be pretty common in liberals and liberal institutions. I think that is because in UK the idea to connect transphobia with "womens rights" was really successful and this results in otherwise really liberal / left leaning / feminist individuals & groups to be actively anti-trans. As far as i know even otherwise trust worthy news papers like the guardian plattform anti trans talking points.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s the official broadcaster of TERF island. Even their foremost left wing newspaper is transphobia central.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

It still makes me so sad to see what's become of the Guardian.