New BBC director-general urged to 'weed out trans activists' from company

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The BBC's newly appointed director-general is facing immediate pressure to purge trans activists from the broadcaster following a controversial editorial decision.Just three days before Matt Brittin assumed control on Monday, it is said the corporation rejected numerous complaints regarding a Radio 4 Woman's Hour episode, which featured a biological male discussing experiences of misogyny.Raewyn Connell, a gender studies academic from the University of Sydney who began identifying as female in their sixties, appeared on the programme to analyse the Louis Theroux documentary Inside The Manosphere, and to discuss personal encounters with misogyny.Listeners objected that a biological male cannot experience misogyny, questioning why the programme selected a man to address what they termed a female-specific issue.

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