A British Broadcasting Corporation newsreader made an on-air correction to “pro-trans” language during a TV news report on Sunday, June 22nd. Faced with a culturally ‘sensitive’ but scientifically illiterate teleprompter script, Martine Croxhall added a quick correction of her own.
As part of coverage of a rare British heatwave, the BBC news autocue was prepared to deliver this statement
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has released research which says that nearly 600 heat-related deaths are expected in the UK…. Malcom Mistry, who was involved in the research, says that the aged, pregnant people and those with pre-existing health conditions need to take precautions.
Croxhall went off-script to add the correct word ‘women’ as a follow-up to ‘pregnant people’, earning the praise of ‘gender-critical’ Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling, among others. Commentator Brendan O’Neill welcomed what he called the “BBC video that exposed our cowardly elite,” stating that the “memory-holing of the word ‘woman’ to appease the trans lobby is an outrage.”
In line with much of the British establishment, the national broadcaster seems preoccupied with the trans lobby, reflected in programming content, including news and current affairs. This is what makes Croxhall’s small act of rebellion, delivered to camera in a knowing voice, so welcome.
