BBC trans coverage slammed, 70% say it’s ‘hostile’ to trans people
The Good Law Project is running a campaign demanding that the ‘BBC stops attacking trans people.’ In aid of this, they’ve commissioned polling from YouGov on how the BBC reports on trans people.
The right wing claims the BBC is against Donald Trump and ‘pro-trans’, but the people at the sharp end of its coverage disagree.
The BBC must stop its attack on trans people.https://t.co/sAHYyw921A
— Good Law Project (@GoodLawProject) November 15, 2025
BBC trans coverage — “Hostile”
As the Good Law Project reported:
A rightwing campaign has forced resignations at the BBC over claims including “pro-trans” bias, but the people who bear the brunt of its coverage disagree. A YouGov poll of trans people commissioned by Good Law Project has shown that 70% think that BBC News generally takes a “hostile” stance when reporting on them.
And they’re right. When we offered the BBC an exclusive on this survey – showing how trans people in Britain live in fear and have suffered a catastrophic loss of faith in politicians, judges, the police and the media – it didn’t dare pick it up.
They added:
Not only does a large majority (70%) of the trans people surveyed see reporting by BBC News on trans issues as hostile – with only 15% judging it “neutral” and the 5% who think it “supportive” outweighed by the 9% who “don’t know” – but a staggering 78% said it reports stories around trans rights either “badly” or “very badly”.
Good Law has also set up a site which facilitates supporters writing to the BBC:
The BBC, quite consciously, sets out to demean and belittle trans people. This is both morally contemptible and in breach of its Charter obligations. We’ve made it super easy for you to write to the BBC and tell it to stop. https://t.co/BHMWE94hW9
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) November 14, 2025
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I’d like some evidence of the BBC being hostile towards trans people.
Trans people seem to me to be disproportionately noisy, representing, according to government figures, at around 242,000 out of a population of around 70 million. That is about 0.03%.
Why is transitioning a political thing? This noise about whether transphobia is either an ultra-right or ultra-left conspiracy is utter nonsense.
It is the same as every criticism, however mild, of Israel or Jews being antisemitic or my voting to leave the EU automatically makes me racist.
A person believing that all people retain their gender at birth, which I would think the vast majority of people do, is nothing to do with their politics, their religion or their nationality and nor is it a hatred of trans people. The whole debate has become completely overblown.
It is not possible physically for a person to completely change their birth gender characteristics. They can have hormone therapy, operations or any number of other treatments but there has to be a fixed legal definition. Anyone can identify in any way they wish but it is ultimately a matter of choice and one person having the opposite opinion should not make them a target of hate.
Please be kind to our homophobic, misogynist brethren and respect their urgent need to share showers and changing rooms with teenage girls. Trans rights are human rights!