{"id":1498948,"date":"2022-05-31T20:29:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T00:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498948"},"modified":"2022-05-31T20:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T00:29:45","slug":"bbc-changes-victims-statement-to-avoid-misgendering-her-rapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bbc-changes-victims-statement-to-avoid-misgendering-her-rapist\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Changes Victim\u2019s Statement To Avoid \u2018Misgendering\u2019 Her Rapist"},"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\">18<\/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-changes-victims-statement-to-avoid-misgendering-her-rapist%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=1498948&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--><p>The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reportedly changed a victim\u2019s statement in order to avoid the backlash that could have been sparked if they had allowed her to publicly misgender her rapist.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from the Times of London, the BBC published a story about a woman who claimed that she had been raped \u2014 but her alleged attacker was a transgender woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BBC changed the testimony of a rape victim after a debate over the pronouns of her transgender attacker,\u201d The Times reported. \u201cThe woman referred to her alleged rapist as \u2018him\u2019 but insiders said that her words were changed to avoid \u2018misgendering\u2019 the abuser in an article on the corporation\u2019s website.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report went on to say that throughout the statement, every incidence where the pronouns \u201che\u201d or \u201chim\u201d had been used, the BBC altered the language to read \u201cthey\u201d or \u201cthem\u201d instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA source said the quote was the subject of heated debate prior to publication. Some journalists argued that the quote should remain intact, while others said it should reflect the trans woman\u2019s preferred she\/her pronouns,\u201d The Times\u2019 report added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe woman reportedly told the BBC: \u2018I was too young to argue and had been brainwashed by queer theory so he was a \u2018woman\u2019 even if every fiber of my being was screaming throughout, so I agreed to go home with him. He used physical force when I changed my mind upon seeing his penis and raped me,&#8217;\u201d Mediate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/bbc-altered-rape-victims-quote-to-prevent-misgendering-her-transgender-attacker-report\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The same statement, as published by the BBC, reads: \u201c[They] threatened to out me as a terf and risk my job if I refused to sleep with [them]. I was too young to argue and had been brainwashed by queer theory so [they were] a \u2018woman\u2019 even if every fiber of my being was screaming throughout so I agreed to go home with [them]. [They] used physical force when I changed my mind upon seeing [their] penis and raped me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-57853385\">article in question<\/a> was published by the BBC in November of 2021, and was titled \u201cGet the L Out,\u201d and it addressed the issues surrounding lesbians who felt as though they were being pressured to engage in relations with transgender women who were still biologically male.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had someone saying they would rather kill me than Hitler,\u2019 says 24-year-old Jennie*,\u201d the BBC article read, noting that \u201cJennie\u201d \u2014 whose real name was redacted to protect her identity \u2014 had been called everything from \u201ctransphobic\u201d to \u201cTERF\u201d (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) \u2014 and had been openly\u00a0threatened with violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said they would strangle me with a belt if they were in a room with me and Hitler. That was so bizarrely violent, just because I won\u2019t have sex with trans women,\u201d Jennie added.<\/p>\n<p>Another woman who was interviewed for the piece \u2014 called \u201cChloe\u201d \u2014 said that she felt coerced into penetrative sex with a trans woman who was still biologically male because she had been drinking and did not believe she had consented. But afterward, because she was afraid of how people would react to her complaining about it, she said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe language at the time was very much \u2018trans women are women, they are always women, lesbians should date them\u2019. And I was like, that\u2019s the reason I rejected this person. Does that make me bad? Am I not going to be allowed to be in the LGBT community anymore? Am I going to face repercussions for that instead?\u2019 So I didn\u2019t actually tell anyone,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reportedly changed a victim\u2019s statement in order to avoid the backlash that could have been sparked if they had allowed her to publicly misgender her rapist. 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