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The BBC’s trans coverage is subject to “effective censorship” by specialist LGBT reporters who refuse to cover gender critical stories, one of the broadcaster’s own advisers has warned. BBC staff have expressed concerns that the LGBT desk – which is shared by all of the corporation’s news programmes – has been “captured by a small group of people” promoting a pro-trans agenda and “keeping other perspectives off air”.

This has led to “a constant drip-feed of one-sided stories … celebrating the trans experience without adequate balance or objectivity”, a leaked internal BBC memo concludes. It reflected a “cultural problem across the BBC” which treats issues of gender and sexuality as “a celebration of British diversity” rather than a complex and contentious subject.

The latest accusations of BBC bias come after The Telegraph revealed that a Panorama documentary doctored footage of a Donald Trump speech, and that the corporation minimised reports of Israeli suffering in the Gaza war to “paint Israel as the aggressor”. Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/05/bbc-trans-coverage-censored-own-reporters/ #bbc #transition #bias

Source: BBC trans coverage ‘censored’ by its own reporters | Watch