BBC in Gender Row as Training Course Created to Increase the Number of Female Production Staff Opened to Trans Women

The BBC finds itself entangled in a controversy over inclusivity as a training course designed to enhance the representation of female production staff is extended to men identifying as women. The Mail has more.

The six-day course, called ‘BBC: Female Self-Shooters’, was designed to teach women how to become camera operators – a role that has long been male-dominated in companies across the industry.

An advert shared around the Corporation says of the course: “Aimed at female (and those identifying as female) TV producers or those at producer level, who will be in a position to use the acquired skills after the training, e.g. as second camera operators, shooting taster tapes or directing your own self-shot film. If self-shooting camera skills are a barrier to your progress, this is the course for you!”

The cost of the training programme – which is due to be held in Belfast and will teach skills such as “storytelling, shooting for the edit and interview essentials”, is fully funded by the BBC.

However, female staff are said to be “cross and upset” that the initiative allows for non-biological women to apply and believe a separate course could be offered for those identifying as women.

A source at the Corporation said: “It’s a good thing that the BBC want to increase the number of females doing technical, behind-the-camera jobs, but would it be really too much to ask that the course could just be for women?”

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ChrisSpeke
ChrisSpeke
2 years ago

Are you having a larf ? When will the people start pissing themselves with laughter at these decisions . Has the promotional standard of all publicly funded organisations resulted in Morons taking over at the Top . Has any sane person got oversight ?

Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  ChrisSpeke

No.

Marque1
2 years ago
Reply to  ChrisSpeke

Yes to the first and no to the second.

huxleypiggles
2 years ago

A bit of mutiny in the ranks at Pravda BBC. Marvellous.

godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
2 years ago

It just gets crazier and crazier, the new CEO of ‘Endometriosis South Coast’ is a trans woman:

https://twitter.com/EndoSouthC/status/1723747601130909766

Boomer Bloke
2 years ago

You couldn’t make it up.

transmissionofflame
2 years ago

Please stop using the term “trans woman”

They are not women, they are men

godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
2 years ago

Trans women are men, so what’s the problem with calling them ‘trans women’?

Logically, only men can be trans women. A person cannot be a trans woman without being a man because if they weren’t a man, they’d be a woman, not a trans woman.

transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

There’s nothing logical about it. It’s intended to normalize the idea that a man can “become” a woman.

godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
2 years ago

If we stopped using the term ‘trans woman’, what term would we use to distinguish them from men who are not claiming to be trans women?

Matt Dalby
Matt Dalby
2 years ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

Confused, deluded, suffering from a psychiatric disorder, lost touch with reality.
Take your pick.

transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

A phrase that doesn’t contain the word “woman”. “Trans” is an adjective, and adjectives are usually used to to give more precise meaning to the word they are describing rather than contradict it. I suppose “fake woman” or “pretend woman” might work, though my personal favourite is “trans man”. I’m aware that “trans man” is currently used to describe women who think or pretend to think that they are men, which is equally confusing.
We must avoid using the language of our enemies, which is designed to confuse, corrupt and normalise mad or evil ideas.

RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

Transvestites.

Boomer Bloke
2 years ago
Reply to  RTSC

Blokes in dresses

RogerB
2 years ago

How about “trancisters”? That’s nice and confusing.

RogerB
2 years ago
Reply to  RogerB

How can I delete this? This term has already been coined by a mogrificato.

MikeAustin
2 years ago

Can they do the job yes/no? End of.
(My management consultancy bill is in the post.)

Matt Dalby
Matt Dalby
2 years ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

In this case the question should be “will this person’s career benefit from attending the course?”.
If the answer’s yes they should be able to attend. Someone should sue the BBC for sex discrimination if they can’t go on a course because of the shape of their genitals.

JeremyP99
2 years ago

Remember. “Identifying as…” actually means “pretending to be…”

Good for kids to do role play. A healthy and creative part of childhood.

For adults, a clear sign of mental instability.

Dinger64
2 years ago

More men to take women’s jobs! 🤣🤣
You couldn’t make this sh!t up!

Grim Ace
Grim Ace
2 years ago

Two things: women are not good at manly things. Muslims are right about women’s behavior