Backlash Forces BBC To Change “Assigned Female At Birth” To “Women”

The BBC recently ran a story on a gynecological problem that affects around 1.5million women in the UK. However, the BBC didn’t say “women.”

Instead, a reporter for the corporation used the term “assigned female at birth.” However, following a backlash, the story has been amended and assigned female at birth has been changed to women.

According to The Telegraph:

The BBC has been forced to amend a news story to change the description of endometriosis sufferers from people “assigned female at birth” to “women”, following a backlash.

The broadcaster published a feature on the issues surrounding the gynaecological condition – suffered by around 1.5 million women in the UK – which interviewed two women who shared their story to help raise awareness.

It opened with a description of some of the symptoms of endometriosis, including heavy periods, debilitating pain and infertility, before saying the condition “affects one in 10 people of any age in the UK, who are assigned female at birth”.

Milli Hill, a bestselling author of books about childbirth and the founder of the Positive Birth Movement, spotted the description and sent a tweet to the BBC, which quickly went viral.

It led to a flood of complaints to the broadcaster about the phrasing and, within hours, the piece had been amended online to instead say “one in 10 women of any age in the UK”.

Despite the phrase in question referring to women on a population level, a spokesman for the BBC said the correction was made because the story involved interviews with two women.

The corporation refused to confirm how many complaints had been received, but pointed out complaints figures are published in a fortnightly bulletin, if 100 or more are received.

Ah, sure tis only Vaudeville isn’t it? If you could use a laugh this fine Monday morning, have a look at Labour party leader Keir Starmer squirming as he’s asked by LBC presenter Nick Ferrari if a woman can have a penis.

Wonderful.

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