Nutmeg's week: The BBC's war on reality might be over

We’ve now had arguably the second seismic development this year in the UK’s war against trans ideology. In April we had the Supreme Court clarifying that men are not women. This month, the director general of the BBC resigned after a dossier revealed the corporation had been misleading its audience on various issues, including trans ideology.

Several establishment figures have rushed to defend the BBC from charges of bias. Alastair Campbell, for instance, denied the BBC is “pro-trans”.

In response, we put together this Top 40 of stories and developments from just the last 12 months, which show how slanted the BBC has been on this issue. It could easily have been 80 - there was no space, for example, for BBC Reporting Scotland’s promotion of a furry convention or BBC News describing a violent group of trans activists as a ‘vegan cult’. It’s also only the last year - the propaganda was actually far worse every year from about 2015 to 2024, but that project would have been too big.

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40. The BBC World Service has produced numerous documentaries about the plights of cross-dressing men in countries such as India, Uganda and Taiwan. One documentary about ‘transgender women in Bangladesh’ was broadcast seven times on British radio this year.

39. BBC News reported that President Trump had banned ‘transgender athletes from female competitions’. This was not true as ‘trans men’ could compete. However, the complaint about this was not upheld because BBC guidelines do not require ‘absolute accuracy’.

38. What It Feels Like For A Girl, a SIX-HOUR drama about a 15-year-old cross-dressing boy, based on Paris Lees’ life, was broadcast. (It was a ratings disaster).

37. BBC 6 Music spent a lot of 2025 playing songs by trans activists or about trans activism (see various Nutmeg’s Week’s this year). It was fitting, therefore, that of its 12 ‘Artists of the Year 2025’, five of them were transgender.

36. As part of a BBC series on ‘inspirational women’ around the world, it reported on the story of a cross-dressing man in Saudi Arabia who took his own life. This was to highlight the abuse ‘transgender Saudis’ face.

35. Transvestites have been shoehorned into BBC reality shows several times in 2025. For example, this was on Antiques Roadshow VE Day. (The same man was given a 15 minute slot on Woman’s Hour the following week to explain why he’s a woman).

34. The ‘comedy’ Smoggie Queens, about a group of drag queens and trans activists who live together, was commissioned for a second BBC series, despite also being a ratings disaster. It was also named best comedy at the Broadcast Digital Awards (judges included 11 BBC employees). This was how the first series ended.

33. Radio 1 presenter Greg James, one of the BBC’s highest paid ‘stars’, wrote that people age more quickly if they don’t believe that some men are actually women.

32. Following criticism that Doctor Who had become too obsessed with trans propaganda, the BBC responded by bringing trans activist Juno Dawson onto its core writing team. This did not prove to be successful.

31. BBC News has written so many stories about drag queens that it created a dedicated section for them—one that published more stories in August than its women’s section.

30. Despite the Supreme Court clarifying that men are not women, the BBC admitted that it still allowed men to use its women’s toilets. Male ‘comedian’ Jen Ives, who says he works in a BBC building, boasted that he will not stop using women’s facilities.

29. Stuck for something to do with the kids during half term? BBC News knows what’s fun - why not treat them to some education about the maritime history of LGBT people?

28. BBC Three broadcast this transgender propaganda reality show, from 2022, again this September. It involves a 21-year-old man, who’d been on puberty blockers since childhood, and was given a ‘Vagina Day’ party to celebrate three years since he was castrated.

27. The National Library of Scotland banned a book of gender critical essays. A report found this was ‘based on inadequate evidence’. The BBC therefore discussed the story with... the librarian who banned the book, who talked at length about its “violence”.

26. The BBC upheld a complaint about presenter Martine Croxall, who read out the term “pregnant people” live on air and added “women”. Its Executive Complaints Unit said her face expressed a “controversial view about trans people” when she said the word.

25. The BBC broadcast the gay dating show I Kissed A Boy. But one of the contestants was a girl who pretended to be a boy. A spokesman said this was “inclusive” and not “homophobic”.

24. BBC News’ top ‘women’ story on International Women’s Day was the promotion of a cross-dressing man’s book. Dylan Mulvaney’s autobiography contained anecdotes about how he sexually assaulted men.

23. BBC drama Casualty: This episode from 2021 was uploaded to a BBC YouTube channel this year. A man is the victim of a transphobic acid attack. But in hospital the news gets really bad - he discovers the NHS might not fund the surgery he wants to make it look like he has breasts.

22. BBC News ran a campaign to get more cross-dressing men in the judiciary.

21. The BBC ran at least 25 different articles about a drag queen who died at the start of the year.

20. BBC News has run at least five articles urging ‘men’ to get screened for cancers that only women, or predominantly women, can get.

19. There has been no end of ‘trans women’ on BBC quiz shows this year. The first eight episodes of the latest series of University Challenge featured three all male teams that included a ‘woman’.

18. In response to Donald Trump banning men in women’s sports, the BBC’s Pride Board issued an ‘emotional support notice’ to all staff, assuring them that the BBC is committed to ‘diversity and inclusion’.

17. Several stories did not appear on BBC News. For example, it did not cover a transvestite being found guilty of harassing his MP, the sister of the Chancellor, even though the Speaker of the House intervened in the case to protect her. It did cover stories about drag queen representation on television at roughly the same time though.

16. BBC News’ reaction to the Supreme Court ruling that men are not women saw the portrayal of transvestites as victims immediately go into overdrive. A cross-dressing ex-judge opposed to the ruling was also repeatedly platformed.

15. There have been numerous articles about extremely violent men in which they have been called ‘women’ throughout, including even in the headline. In 2025, the BBC even used ‘she / her’ pronouns for rapist Maddison Wilson, who the judge referred to as a man during the trial. In another case, the BBC finally detailed a trans activist serial criminal was a man .. before editing the piece a few minutes later to remove that bit.

14. In June, men were banned from playing competitive women’s football in England. BBC News led up to this with story after story and interview after interview about how sad some men felt about not being allowed to cheat anymore.

13. BBC News ran a story about safety for women on the London Underground. The one woman they spoke to was a man.

12. This man dresses as a baby girl and wears nappies. He goes into local primary schools to ‘teach children about autism’ and tries to have one-to-one sessions with them. Despite the obvious red flags, the BBC profiled and promoted him.

11. The BBC vox pops in 2025.

10. Zambian footballer Barbra Banda was named BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year. This is despite the fact that Banda is banned from playing in the African Cup of Nations, and Real Madrid opted against signing the player, after Banda reportedly failed a gender verification test.

9. A BBC presenter launched a project in which she distributed badges, saying ‘Safe With Me’, in schools, for children to wear in public places. The badges signify to any ‘trans people’ nearby that the child will escort them to a toilet.

8. The BBC ran a news story showing how brutal Iran is because it jails women for wearing “provocative and revealing clothing”, and mistreats prisoners. However, no actual women were featured - the entire piece was about the plight of a cross-dressing man.

7. The 2022 BBC documentary, Should I Tell You I’m Trans?, reappeared on the iPlayer this year. It asks several people if it’s ethical to lie to a potential partner about your biological sex - all but one say it is, and even she isn’t sure. It’s not mentioned that this is illegal. When a few people complained about it, the BBC added the note: ‘Consent may be invalidated if a sexual partner is deceptive about their biological sex’ to the video.

6. An ‘openly gay’ 14 year old ‘drag queen’, who performs at Pride, was making a film about homosexuality in Ancient Greece, when and where pederasty was notoriously widespread. Despite the obvious red flags, BBC Radio promoted the film via this extraordinary interview.

5. This happened on Match Of The Day.

4. BBC soap opera Doctors ended after 25 years. It decided to bow out with a long-running story about a transphobic doctor who tried and failed to inject his bigotry into the practice. The character was called ‘Graham’ as an attack on Graham Linehan.

3. BBC teen drama Waterloo Road devoted an hour to a 24-year-old man playing a schoolgirl who was upset because his dying, dementia-ridden grandmother might not have really believed he was a girl.

2. This is what a 15 minute BBC discussion about the trans issue looks like. Seven trans activists (and, briefly, one woman) talked about men in women’s spaces before two trans activists talked to a pro trans presenter (while another woman briefly spoke by video link).

1. The founder of Pride in Surrey was jailed for 24 years for raping a boy. Despite being a regular on BBC shows (including presenting on BBC Radio Surrey), almost no coverage was given to his sentence - just 30 seconds on local radio the following day.

This will probably be the first and last top 40 countdown, though. Last year the BBC partially upheld a complaint against presenter Justin Webb, for saying “trans women, in other words, males”. All of a sudden this week, the language used in the BBC’s coverage of the Darlington nurses case was exactly the same as Webb’s.

See you next week!