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Apr 24Liked by SEENinJournalism

Beyond ridiculous, if a man munrderd someone call them a man! How utterly insane to call them a woman so what they don’t get their feelings hurt?

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Apr 24Liked by SEENinJournalism

Following on from the Baroness's letter to OfCom and their reply, you may be interested in my Twitter thread on OfCom's 'Diversity monitoring' in their job application:

https://twitter.com/Sexnotgender_/status/1782889063130767825

I don't think they have a clue what they're talking about when it comes to the Equality Act 2010 - nor UK GDPR for that matter.

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Hi Alan - thanks- that’s is interesting. They feel very captured right now.

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Apr 25Liked by SEENinJournalism

Excellent article that deftly expose Ofcom's institutional bias and activist agenda.

As you will see from Ofcom's reply today (25 April 2024 - posted on our timeline @ofcom_Watch)) to Baroness Nicholson's last letter their Director of Standards & Audience Protection, Simon Baxter corrects his "drafting error" when he wrongly described "gender" as a 'protected characteristic' when it should have been "sex".

However, he appears to double-down nevertheless by saying that "We are minded" when referring to the law ie. Equality Act 2010. There is no "minding" about the Law (ie. they are inclined to accept) - it is the law.

Despite their error Ofcom predictably stick to their activist-based decision that no investigation into BBC coverage of Scarlet Blake case is warranted.

As we stated earlier in our timeline, this renders the BBC & Ofcom complaint processes useless and pure window-dressing.

Best regards,

@Ofcom_Watch

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This is the old problem of ‘going beyond the law’ that for some reason is seen as better than simply respecting the law as it is.

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I read the Ofcom letter.

Nobody who uses the word “transphobia” deserves to be taken seriously.

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When it’s ill-defined (which it is) it’s really just activist language

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