'This is information that didn’t need disclosing other than for you to stir up hatred’ BBC Woman’s Hour has come under fire for issuing a ‘clarification’ that its all-woman Brain of Britain competition included a transgender contestant.
BBC Woman’s Hour has come under fire for issuing a ‘clarification’ that its all-woman Brain of Britain competition included a transgender contestant.
Radio 4 presenters Russell Davies and Emma Barnett celebrated that the contest had its ‘first ever all-woman final’ in its 55-year history. It was also mentioned in a tweet on the Woman’s Hour Twitter page to announce that Emma would be chatting to Brain of Britain’s 2022 champion Sarah Trevarthen and co-founder of feminist quizzine @quizogyny, Becky Howell, to ‘discuss the rise of women in quizzing’.
However, it was then followed-up by another tweet on Wednesday that read: ‘The BBC has confirmed the following: ‘We can clarify that Brain of Britain’s list of women finalists included a trans woman, a detail which was not made available to the Woman’s Hour team when they covered the story.’ Many in the comments of the original tweet began suggesting it was ‘not an all-women final’ due to former Mastermind contestant Emma Laslett, who is a transgender woman, taking part.Laslett has appeared on Mastermind twice with the Stonewall Riots her specialist subject in 2020 Once the BBC made its ‘clarification’, others swooped in to criticise the broadcaster for ‘pandering’ to the critics.
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