Newly Recruited BBC Journalists Told to Lobby MPs and Protest on Transgender Rights

Demonstrators hold placards and wave a transgender pride flag during the Trans Activism UK "British Bigotry Corporation: Platforming Hate Is Not Impartial" protest at BBC Broadcasting House in London on Jan. 8, 2022. Hollie Adams/Getty Images

A lobby group has been training new BBC journalists on how to use their influence to lobby politicians on trans and nonbinary issues as well as attend protests, at odds with its strict historical impartiality guidelines.

On June 15, Stephen Nolan, a presenter on BBC Radio Ulster, talked to an anonymous BBC insider who told him that junior journalists had been given a training session about how “allies” should use their “magical powers” and influence to “affect trans rights for people.”