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When Journalism Becomes Captured: ‘Pre-op Transgender Women’, ‘Queer Representation’ and a BBC Apology That Falls Short (opens the original)
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Why did it take high-profile cases such as the Darlington nurses and Sandie Peggie - both involving women challenging male colleagues’ use of female changing rooms - for the public to wake up to the consequences of gender ideology?Because some newsrooms became as captured as the institutions they were supposed to scrutinise.Activist language crept into style guides. Contested assumptions were taken at face value. Basic facts about sex were obscured.Journalists who asked difficult questions could
Why Is the Media Afraid to Scrutinise Pride? – BBC, Manchester Evening News & GB News (opens the original)
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Pride receives extensive mainstream media coverage. But too often, it looks more like promotion than journalism.This week, we examine why legitimate questions about sexualised content, safeguarding and appropriate boundaries around children remain so difficult for journalists to ask.The BBC asks why Pride is struggling - but omits some obvious answersThis month the BBC has published 30-minute podcast and a 2,000-word article to examining why Pride events are struggling.It considers rising costs,
When “Media Accountability” Becomes Intimidation – Journalist Blacklists, Jason Arday & Press Freedom (opens the original)
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SEEN in Journalism usually focuses on restoring accuracy and impartiality to reporting on sex and gender.But as a group of volunteers working in and around the media, we cannot ignore wider threats to journalism itself -particularly those that have emerged following the death of Professor Jason Arday.When journalists are reported to the police for asking legitimate questions, blacklists of their names are published online and legitimate scrutiny is portrayed as harassment or a “witch hunt”, we h
When Facts Become Offensive & Scrutiny Becomes a “Witch Hunt” - Guardian, BBC Woman's Hour & Jason Arday (opens the original)
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Journalistic standards should not change according to who - or what - is being reported on.But this week gave us plenty of examples of journalism doing the opposite. Different stories. Same underlying problem.No, Guardian journalists: sex is not ‘assigned’ at birthReporting on the debate over eligibility for the WNBA - the top US women’s professional basketball league - The Guardian defined a “transgender woman” as:&#
Why Are Journalists Still Afraid of Trans People? BBC Three Counties, LBC and Jeremy Vine (Channel 5) (opens the original)
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The introduction of the new statutory EHRC Code on single-sex spaces last week felt like a test for journalists.Following last year’s Supreme Court judgment, which clarified that the words “woman”, “man” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer to biological sex, the long-awaited Code was intended to help organisations understand how to comply with the law.Its introduction was fiercely contested. Some MPs sought to block it, while trans-rights campaigners described it as “unworkable” and warned of it
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