BBC staff have been told there are more than 150 genders, and they must develop their “trans brand” by declaring their pronouns on email sign-offs. Ewan Somerville in the Telegraph has more.
The Telegraph has obtained material provided to radio staff by Global Butterflies, a transgender group that the BBC drafted in for training sessions last summer and autumn.
Emails were sent to radio producers and programme editors, some from heads of departments, urging them to attend the training.
During the sessions, leaked to the Telegraph, staff were shown an array of gender-neutral pronouns they should use including “xe, xem, xyrs”, and were told: “People can self-identify themselves in over 150 ways, and increasing!”
Staff were told they should include their pronouns in email signature boxes to be “part of your trans brand” as an “inclusive and welcoming… brilliant show of ally support”.
The Global Butterflies trainer told staff that “he/she” pronouns “can create “discomfort, stress and anxiety” for gender non-conforming people and “it has been shown that in young trans people, using correct pronouns and names reduces depression and suicide risks”.
The diversity training said: “If you overhear a colleague using the incorrect pronouns for someone, take them aside and remind them of the correct pronouns.”
Staff were shown a diagram of pronoun badges that they could wear around offices, and shown how to use gender pronouns on air. They were also urged to avoid the terms transsexual and transvestite, and told that “nudging” or “staring” are transphobic.
A whistleblower told the Telegraph the BBC was “suppressing stories” that challenge trans activism and claimed there is a “tight-knit cabal at the top of BBC News who give tacit approval to gender ideology”.
The whistleblower urged the BBC’s Director General Tim Davie to “get a grip” and remind the corporation’s human resources and diversity departments that “licence fee payers pay their salaries and expect staff to be trained by impartial trainers”.
“The BBC simply doesn’t understand what’s going on with gender identity ideology,” the source, a senior staff member who recently quit the corporation, said.
“They’ve been pandering to a social contagion amongst young people rather than being the adult in the room. ‘Inform and educate’ from the BBC Charter has left the BBC when it covers trans issues.”
Worth reading in full.
Incidentally, any BBC staff under pressure to declare their preferred gender pronouns should check out the Free Speech Union’s FAQs on how you can push back against this.
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I’m looking forward to the next series of Silent Witness when Emelia Fox, conducting one of her stock in trade grisly Post mortems dictates; “this appears to be a Xeno-gender human, aged about 30…. etc.”
Surely the BBC wouldn’t be so insensitive as to suggest that genders aren’t identifiable to the trained pathologist?
I suspect if I was working at the BBC, God help me, I would subvert this nonsense by signing off every single email with a different pronoun. It’s not as if someone could complain because all I would be doing is confirming my fluidity.
The place wants blowing up.
I wouldn’t hold your breath….
The gender pronoun I use universally, is ‘shit’ which encompasses male, female and any other.
I’ve decided to identify as invisible.
My pronouns are ‘Who?’ and ‘Where?’
Someone, presumably a drunk student, has sprayed the words TRANS JOY
onto a wall of the former HMP Reading. Since then, I’ve been wondering what this means. Considering that transwoman is a man who claims to feel like a woman, someone’s who’s experiencing transjoy must be someone who claims to be happily depressed.
https://ifunny.co/picture/jaxen-23-i-m-a-polyamorus-pansexual-demiflux-person-my-4E0AOHVc9
The future.
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might think that this is all preparation for transhumanism and artificial reproduction, for which sexes will not be necessary.
AI will of course be genderless, so if we are also genderless (150 genders is really like saying there are no genders) the blending of human and machine will be all the more seemless.
Trying to impose 150 genders is either complete insanity or some very terrifying level of evil.
Twats
Need I say more
If there’s over 150 gender pronouns (aka: arbitrary labels, which in reality is all they are), how on earth are you supposed to know or even remember everyone’s?? And no, I’m not going around wearing a badge with ‘HE’ on it! I would suggest that those who feel the need to have a pronoun are the ones in need of help, not the vast majority who understand the reality that there’s only he and she and just get on with our lives. Furthermore, if someone’s label is unknown to a person, that person should not be ‘taken aside’, as that is subjecting them to humiliation, itself discriminatory and cruel. Basically, not just the BBC, but those who falsely claim the gender moral high ground have lost the plot. There are far far more serious issues in this world to worry about and deal with.