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•It comes after a leaked internal BBC report into impartiality said there was “effective censorship” by LGBT staff in the news division.
•BBC leaders director-general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness have resigned following backlash over editing of a Donald Trump speech in a Panorama documentary.
Michael Prescott, a former independent adviser to the BBC’s editorial watchdog, added the broadcaster had been “captured by a small group of people’ promoting a pro-trans agenda and “keeping other perspectives off air”.
The BBC said: “We have taken a number of actions relating to our reporting of sex and gender including updating the news style guide and sharing new guidance, making our Social Affairs Editor responsible for this coverage, and where there have been concerns about particular stories, we have addressed them.
Source: BBC staff tried to block ‘very problematic’ JK Rowling interview