Sex

According to The Times, BBC managers are ‘intensely relaxed’ about news reader Martine Croxall going off script and changing 'pregnant people' on-air to ‘pregnant women'.

These managers 'are said to have the support of BBC chairman Samir Shah. He is thought to have been dismayed by the ruling surrounding the Justin Webb incident,  several months before he [Shah] joined the BBC. The shift is said to have been underpinned by the Supreme Court ruling’.

In August 2022, Justin Webb used the phrase “trans women, in other words males” in an interview about international chess. It took six months for the Executive Complaints Unit to rule this was a mistake: "In relation to impartiality....  the ECU considered it could only be understood by listeners as meaning that trans women remain male, without qualification as to gender or biological sex, and that, even if unintentional, it gave the impression of endorsing one viewpoint in a highly controversial area.  It therefore upheld this aspect of the complaint."

There's a new set of Editorial Guidelines in the pipeline - should have been approved at Board level in March. Is there a problem ?