{"id":1440392,"date":"2022-04-15T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1440392"},"modified":"2022-04-15T13:00:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:00:55","slug":"bbc-to-use-doctor-who-to-tell-trans-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bbc-to-use-doctor-who-to-tell-trans-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC to Use Doctor Who to &#039; Tell Trans Stories&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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-to-use-doctor-who-to-tell-trans-stories%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=1440392&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-81935548-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The state-owned, publicly-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) will use its flagship Doctor Who franchise to \u201ctell trans stories\u201d, according to its own reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The notionally apolitical broadcaster announced on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\">front page<\/a> of the BBC News website that it would be using the venerable science-fiction show \u2014 first aired in 1963 \u2014 to \u201clet trans people tell trans stories\u201d, linking to a story about an upcoming podcast spin-off.<\/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>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/newsbeat-61075197\">article<\/a>, which boasted up front that the spin-off \u201cis making the show more female and LGBTQ+ than ever before\u201d, centred around a BBC Radio interview with BBC writer\u00a0Juno Dawson, the transwoman who will be writing the series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a real first for the Doctor Who universe to have a cast that\u2019s completely led by women and completely led by queer women,\u201d Dawson said, insisting that it is \u201cimportant that every person who comes to Doctor Who brings their own little identity\u201d \u2014 apparently believing that representing the various ethnic and sexual minorities of the 21st-century United Kingdom and their issues in a way pleasing to identity politics activists should be an overriding concern for a show about space aliens and time travel.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Delingpole: Doctor Who Writer Banned for \u2018Transphobic\u2019 Views <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dvIC2BFCAP\">https:\/\/t.co\/dvIC2BFCAP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1137313322573938688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Rather than sticking to a neutral write-up of Dawson\u2019s comments, the BBC editorialised by tying the transwoman\u2019s upcoming show to the fact that the \u201cgovernment plans to ban conversion therapy for lesbian, gay and bisexual people \u2014 but not for transgender people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson\u2019s not-particularly-conservative administration had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/04\/02\/uk-conversion-therapy-ban-will-not-cover-transgenders-after-multiple-govt-u-turns\/\">backed off<\/a> including transgender people in the so-called conversion therapy ban amid concerns that, among other things, it would have made it impossible to do anything but affirm the gender identity of supposed \u201ctrans kids\u201d by \u201ccreate[ing] a situation where doctors, therapists, even parents, would be deterred from exploring with a child any feelings of what else may be going on for fear that they will be told they are trying to change a child\u2019s identity\u201d \u2014 although the BBC did not reference these concerns in its report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re living in quite a scary time for trans people. I\u2019m a trans person, and I\u2019m quite scared,\u201d Dawson asserted, adding that\u00a0\u201cOne of the ways things will get better is to let trans people tell stories about trans people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Craggs, the trans actor who will be playing Dawson\u2019s lead, added the interesting observation that\u00a0\u201cWhen we\u2019re integrated into mainstream culture pieces, like big storylines in<em> EastEnders<\/em> or <em>Coronation Street<\/em>\u201d \u2014 Britain\u2019s premier soap operas \u2014 \u201cit\u2019s so powerful because people aren\u2019t watching it for that,\u201d hinting that it is important to inject identity politics into such entertainment \u201cin a natural way\u201d so that the public don\u2019t \u201cfeel like they\u2019re being shouted at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives have long complained that the BBC \u2014 funded by a compulsory television licence that must be paid on pain of fines backed by imprisonment \u2014 uses its massive entertainment budget to try and shift the culture, despite its supposed impartiality.<\/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 data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state-owned, publicly-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) will use its flagship Doctor Who franchise to \u201ctell trans stories\u201d, according to its own reporting. 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