BBC trans bias ‘is harming children’

The BBC has been urged to stop “normalising transgender ideology” to children.

In a letter to outgoing Director-General Tim Davie and BBC Chair Dr Samir Shah CBE, women’s group Sex Matters called for the corporation to end activist language and enable journalists to speak without fear in order to “restore trust in its output” and protect gender-confused children from harm.

The letter was written in light of a leaked dossier, which reported that a small group of internal LGBT activists censored news coverage that was critical of transgender ideology.

‘Real consequences’

Sex Matters noted that attempts to restore the BBC’s “integrity and balance” have been “hampered by the culture of fear, the threat of internal complaints and the risk of cancellation.

“The everyday norm at the BBC, represented by progress pride lanyards, trans-identifying males using the women’s toilets, and the influence of the LGBT network, is that gender identity is real and obeisance must be paid. Those who oppose this face consequences. This has to end if the BBC is to restore trust in its output.”

The group highlighted that the corporation’s promotion of “transgender identification in children” has had “real, harmful consequences, encouraging children to have a pathological anxiety about normal puberty and driving demand for harmful puberty-blocking drugs that have now been banned”.

According to The Daily Telegraph, the BBC’s Director of News Content Richard Burgess reportedly admitted that it had ‘not got everything right’ on the issue and reminded journalists that they must impartially report on sex and gender and represent a range of viewpoints.

CBeebies

Earlier this year, CBeebies celebrated US ‘drag queen prostitutes’ as “inspirational mums” for children under six.

In a webpage devised to mark International Women’s Day, the BBC channel hailed Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera as ‘transgender pioneers and mothers’ to STAR House in New York.

The broadcaster claimed STAR House provided “a sense of family to many LGBTQ+ kids”, but an exposé by online magazine Spiked! found it was a chaotic arrangement in a squalid apartment, with links to the mafia sex trade.

‘Opinion shift’

According to a 2025 survey of over-16s across the UK, the proportion of those who say “transgender rights have gone too far” has more than doubled since 2020.

Of 4,027 people interviewed by Ipsos for the Policy Institute at King’s College London, 39 per cent agreed with the statement, up from 17 per cent in 2020. In contrast, just 19 per cent claimed such “rights have not gone far enough”.

The research found that public opinion on the issue has “shifted significantly” across all age groups. Although young people are still more likely to believe “rights have not gone far enough”, one in five (19 per cent) of 16 to 24 year-olds now believe the opposite, compared to 9 per cent in 2020.