My contact with the BBC is fairly limited but on R4 they seem to pretty consistently use preferred pronouns and interview trans people and take their accounts seriously. They don’t demonise or mock them. They do interview people who do not respect those norms, but I think it behooves anyone to realise that the UK public is not of one mind on trans issues and that, for example, the correct way to address a trans person or the correct definition of woman is not a matter of scientific fact, but a moral and social question.

So quite unlike climate change, which is established fact, and the BBC seems to have worked out that denialism does not warrant “balance”, trans issues do require a measure of input from people on the other side of the debate. That does not mean giving a platform for people to spread hatred - and maybe this happens in coverage that I haven’t seen or heard, in which case, forgive me - but it does mean allowing people to express the opinion that “I want ‘man’ to mean an adult person with a penis”. Since that’s the kind of “anti-trans” position I’ve heard on the BBC it seems OK to me.

We should also be careful about buying into what is essentially a right-wing attack on the BBC with accusations of rampant bias designed to dismantle it. If they succeed, fueled in part by the apathy of left-wingers due to overreactive accusations of anti-trans, anti-Palestine bias (and the rest) then you can guarantee that it won’t be replaced with anything better. We’ll get a Fox News to replace it.