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Hannah Roberts

BBC rebukes newsreader who corrected 'pregnant people’ to ‘women’ live on air

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A BBC newsreader who replaced the phrase “pregnant people” with “women” while live on air has been found to have breached the broadcaster’s impartiality rules.

The BBC upheld complaints that journalist Martine Croxall “expressed a controversial view about trans people”.

Ms Croxall made a face and changed the script as she introduced an item about research into heat-related deaths that was being carred out by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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