This includes a huge amount of cisgender lesbians who are extremely concerned by this dangerous article and the negative, transphobic light in which it paints them. It remains live and the number continues to grow. At the time of writing this on Friday 29th October, the open letter has been signed by nearly 20,000 people, nearly 12,000 of which have been verified via e-mail (this number would be higher however our letter’s popularity resulted in the website encountering server issues and crashing).
Within the hour we had over 1,500 signatures, by the next morning, there were over 8,000.
On that same day we, the members of the grassroots organisation Trans Activism UK, penned an open letter reacting to the frankly harmful nature of the article, concerned about the fact that the BBC has openly violated its own impartial journalism guidelines as well as its mission statement and values On Tuesday 26th October 2021 the BBC published an article by Caroline Lowbridge titled ‘We’re being pressured into sex by some trans women’*¹. In addition, you can follow on Twitter for updates on our planned January 8th 2022 protest outside Broadcasting House London. The following version of Trans Activism UK’s Open Letter to the BBC, complete with signatories present at 8pm UK on Friday October 29th, is the version which will be sent in digital and physical formats to multiple members of staff at the BBC.Īt the time of finalising, the letter has over 20,000 signatories, over 12,000 of whom have been email verified and added to this letter.
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