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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Savage Media editor

BBC upholds complaint against Martine Croxall over ‘pregnant people’ change

Martine Croxall.
Martine Croxall received 20 complaints about her broadcast on the BBC’s news channel in the summer. Photograph: BBC

The BBC has upheld a complaint against the newsreader Martine Croxall after she changed the term “pregnant people” to “women” and raised her eyebrows during a news channel broadcast in the summer.

The corporation said its executive complaints unit had upheld 20 complaints about the broadcast. It said Croxall’s facial expression “laid it open to the interpretation that it indicated a particular viewpoint in the controversies currently surrounding trans identity”.

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