Wait who is the bully in this scenario???

BBC presenter Emma Barnett has faced an online pile-on from trans allies after she questioned why the new transgender CEO of an endometriosis charity was not using the word ‘woman’.

The host was lauded by prominent feminists including Julie Bindel and Kathleen Stock for robustly questioning charity boss Steph Richards after her appointment as CEO of Endometriosis South Coast. Listeners had widely praised the presenter and thanked her for ‘defending biological reality’. But she was accused of ‘bullying’ and conducting a ‘disgraceful’  interview on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour by critics including Labour MP Ben Bradshaw. 

Men like it when women get shoved aside that way – men like Ben Bradshaw at any rate.

[Richards] was one of the first to criticise the interview, posting on X, formerly known as Twitter, less than two hours after the segment aired: ‘Did Emma Bartlett (sic) want to talk about #endo or the word “woman”? A missed chance I suspect, to raise awareness of this truly awful disease.’

A truly awful disease which Emma Barnett knows the truly awfulness of because she has it, which Richards does not and cannot because he’s a man.

CEOs of charities of course don’t have to be from the demographic the charity is meant to help, but at the same time it seems strikingly perverse, aka like a calculated insult, to choose a man to head this particular charity when the demographic it’s meant to help is half of humanity. To put it another way, why choose a man when there are so many women? It can’t be anything but a deliberate poke in the eye. If you poke us in the eye, we’re likely to say you’re doing that.

Later Labour MP for Exeter, Mr Bradshaw joined the criticism, declaring:  ‘Huge respect to you and your colleague for withstanding the appalling presenter bullying and defending inclusive language and services.’

No skin off his ass, is it. No, just jump right in, bro, and tell those bitches what they can say.

…the flashpoint occurred when Ms Barnet pointed out Ms Richards had not used the word woman in a statement.

She asked her: ‘There is a concern that as a trans activist, now running, being the CEO of an endometriosis charity for women, that you will not preserve the importance of things like the word “woman” and that experience because in your statement on X, 10% you say of those assigned female at birth suffer from this awful disease. Is the word you are looking for there, woman?’

Smut! That’s sheer smut! It shouldn’t be allowed, especially not on the BBC.