"Would you share your bathwater?"

People will ask “How was the BBC covering Maya Forstater in 2021 when she was involved in a landmark case for women’s rights?” and I’ll be able to point them to this tweet.

FairPlayForWomen @fairplaywomen

What an embarrassment. Woman’s Hour had the chance to interview @MForstater this week but dropped her to do this nonsense. https://t.co/4OaoOl4D9z

BBC Woman's Hour @BBCWomansHour

Would you share you bathwater? 🛁 @emmabarnett talks to @sarahbeeny, who says she often takes sixth turn in the tub after her husband and sons https://t.co/uKMPsjhDS1 https://t.co/snPZGnNUBz

Oh, and this interview. I appear to be doing the BBC’s job for them. Why am I paying my license fee again?

Before the BBC defenders jump in—and please know it takes a seismic disturbance in the force to remove me from your numbers—£159 quid a year always seemed like a bargain to me for what the BBC was, for what it represented, and for what those who worked there were trying to do. Now that they are deliberately misleading the public, through omission (in the case of Maya) and straight-out grooming, It no longer seems like a good deal to me. In fact, the license fee is beginning to look prohibitively expensive to me now.

As it’s currently too dangerous to take trans right activists on when they can easily locate and harass your employers and your friends, we can at least put pressure on the BBC to stop enabling the situation. Write to them, hold them to account.