© Geoff Pugh for The TelegraphWhistleblower Sue Evans claims the BBC was biased in its coverage of the Tavistock clinic controversy
Sue Evans helped expose the medical centre's use of puberty blockers on child patients, which eventually led to it being shut down.
She claims the BBC had been "infiltrated by activists", was biased in its coverage of the Tavistock saga, and would allow misinformation to "dominate" discussions by letting statements go unchallenged.
She alleges that a flagship Radio 2 show refused to let her have the final say during debates on gender and that she was told she would only be able to give her opinions before representatives from pro-trans groups gave theirs, denying her the chance to rebut statements that were "clinically inaccurate".
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The revelation comes a week after an internal dossier obtained by The Telegraph disclosed the corporation's trans coverage was subject to "effective censorship" by specialist LGBT reporters who refused to cover gender-critical stories.
The memo also found the corporation had doctored a speech by Donald Trump, which led to the resignation of Tim Davie as director-general and Deborah Turness as the head of news.
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"What we know watching the trans debate unfold is that they have absolutely not been even-handed," she said.
"Clearly, they have had activists in their departments saying who can speak. There has been so much wilful obfuscation and ideology in this area."
© Andrew CrowleyBBC presenter Nick Robinson insisted the BBC was the victim of a ‘political campaign’ over its favorable bias towards LGBTQ issues
However, she became concerned after she learnt a colleague was willing to put a 16-year-old on puberty blockers after meeting him just four times.
Ms Evans reported her concerns to her team but decided to blow the whistle after feeling her "deep" worries were not being addressed.
She left in 2007 and eventually joined a concerned mother, whose daughter had been referred to the clinic, in a legal case against Tavistock.
In December 2020, she won a judicial review, in which a judge initially ruled that children under 16 could not give informed consent to have puberty blockers.
"That should have been massive on BBC News, but it wasn't," Ms Evans said.
"It would always be concluded by someone from the trans community saying, 'This is terrible news for trans people. This is a genocide in medicine.'"
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the UK's first gender clinic in London, is being sued over concerns it gave powerful drugs to children as young as 12 without proper consent
She says she agreed to participate on the condition that she be allowed to speak after any pro-trans group to give her a "chance to comment" on claims made by organisations such as Mermaids, a charity that advocates for transgender children.
"On this particular occasion, I said I would come on if I was allowed to respond to Mermaids," she said.
A BBC staffer initially agreed to this before they were overruled by a senior producer who decided Mermaids would speak last.
After learning of the order change of guests, the junior producer texted Ms Evans: "They won't give you ability to respond to Mermaids. It will be awful - I am so sorry."
Apologising again some weeks later, the producer added: "I think many of us are very embarrassed at the current state of things. I am so sorry about it all."
Speaking now about her experience, Ms Evans said:
"They would always let Mermaids or Tavistock have the final say, it was a constant washout.While Mr Robinson insisted the BBC remained the "most trusted" news organisation in the country and "perhaps also across the globe", Ms Evans said the corporation was part of the problem.
"It always made me look like I had been lying. I felt like I was on to be the fall guy, so they could say, 'She's a bigot.' Where's the balance?
"There's a very serious malpractice going on in medicine. It's very, very frustrating to feel you get edged out of the picture and be cast as out of touch."
"The BBC were so much a part of that back then. It was infuriating to watch," she said.
"The level of misinformation that was allowed to dominate because they were fearful of having any kind of argument."
She added that trans activists were "always allowed to leave a propaganda-style statement" at the end of discussions.
In 2022, the NHS ordered the Tavistock clinic to close after a review found it was "not safe" for children.
© Yui Mok/PA WirePediatrician Dr Hilary Cass holds a copy of her report on the failings of gender dysphoria treatment in the UK
The report concluded youngsters should not be given any hormone drugs at all until at least the age of 18 - let alone the puberty blockers that were being prescribed to children as young as 10 at Tavistock.
"I was always a big supporter of the corporation until the last few years," Ms Evans said.
"I have watched it happen in front of my eyes. Their LGBTQ advisers saying, 'No, we can't just let Sue Evans talk about the Cass Review.'"
A BBC spokesman said: "The BBC reports and represents a wide range of views and perspectives in line with our editorial guidelines. We continually review our coverage to reflect new developments and, where there have been concerns about particular stories, we have addressed them."
Via The Telegraph
For Godness sake… Wise the fk up !
Trans activists are just another pimple on the body political, one must look deeper for the cancer, the rot and the parasitical infiltration. Think Hydra.