{"id":1406443,"date":"2022-03-29T07:32:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T11:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406443"},"modified":"2022-03-29T07:32:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T11:32:16","slug":"bbc-corrects-article-calling-women-assigned-female-at-birth-instead-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bbc-corrects-article-calling-women-assigned-female-at-birth-instead-of-women\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Corrects Article Calling Women &#039;Assigned Female at Birth&#039; Instead of &#039;Women&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbbc-corrects-article-calling-women-assigned-female-at-birth-instead-of-women%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406443&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has edited an article referring to women as people \u201cassigned female at birth\u201d instead of \u201cwomen\u201d after a slew of complaints.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-60738948\">article<\/a> on endometriosis, the publicly-funded British broadcaster had said the condition \u201caffects one in 10 people of any age in the UK, who are assigned female at birth\u201d \u2014 i.e. women who are born as biological females \u2014 in an apparent effort to accommodate transgender ideologues.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDear <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1507652587134369794%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php\">@BBCNews<\/a>, sex is not \u2018assigned at birth\u2019,\u201d complained feminist author Milli Hill on social media after the article\u2019s publication, prompting a large number of complaints.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcaster has since edited the article to say that endometriosis is \u201ca condition that affects one in 10 women of any age in the UK\u201d and added a decidedly less than clear editor\u2019s note claiming that the \u201carticle has been amended to make it more clear for audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critical observers will note that this falls far short of an apology for its assertion that biological women are merely \u201cassigned female at birth\u201d \u2014 and even gives the appearance of patronising an audience unable to understand its woke language.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dear <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCNews<\/a>, sex is not &#8216;assigned at birth&#8217;. Saying &#8216;1 in 10 people&#8217; obscures the stat. Also, the reason there is &#8216;no known cause or cure&#8217; is undoubtedly because this is an issue that only affects women, and has been consistently overlooked. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z9z0gtzLbn\">https:\/\/t.co\/z9z0gtzLbn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R7rketniua\">pic.twitter.com\/R7rketniua<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Milli Hill (@millihill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/millihill\/status\/1507652587134369794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is a news article about two women with endometriosis so we updated the wording to reflect that and make it clearer for audiences,\u201d a spokesman for the broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/03\/27\/bbc-changes-description-endometriosis-sufferers-women-backlash\/\">told<\/a> <em>The Telegraph<\/em>, very much appearing to reserve the right to continue referring to women as people \u201cassigned female at birth\u201d in other contexts, and certainly not apologising for it.<\/p>\n<p>While legally required to be impartial, is has been widely accepted even by some veteran BBC employees and executives that it has a metropolitan, left-liberal bias \u2014 which its adoption of woke language conventions around men and women reflects.<\/p>\n<p>John Humphrys, a key voice and face on one of the corporation\u2019s flagship shows for decades, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/10\/08\/bbc-biased-in-transgender-immigration-debates-says-former-host\/\">said<\/a> in 2019 that\u00a0\u201c[i]f you take something like transgender [issues], their [the BBC\u2019s] mindset is such that we must kind of accept what the prevailing view is, except that their idea of the prevailing view and perhaps mine and some other people\u2019s might be slightly different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that he personally did not believe that there are \u201can unlimited number of genders\u201d and that he feels \u201cslightly worried when large numbers of children are being told, \u2018You think you might be a girl or you think you might be a boy? We\u2019ll go and get you medical attention.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m uneasy about that and I\u2019m uneasy about children being told in schools there are more than 100 different genders and it\u2019s possible for someone to change gender overnight,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He said the BBC was also biased against Brexit and in favour of immigration, despite the public having voted in favour of the former and generally polling as highly sceptical of the latter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BBC Biased in Transgender, Immigration Debates, Says Former Host <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sv8PUze54F\">https:\/\/t.co\/Sv8PUze54F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1181491527169855488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has edited an article referring to women as people \u201cassigned female at birth\u201d instead of \u201cwomen\u201d after a slew of complaints. 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