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The refusal to distinguish between fact and opinion

May 31st, 2023 | By Ophelia Benson
Category: Notes and Comment Blog

Cath Leng points out that actually the Channel 4 program took a very trans activist-friendly view of the core issue.

I’m sure the #GenderWars producers consider themselves brave and impartial, but the programme was predicated on the same failure of judgment I’ve come across in so many BBC meetings: the refusal to distinguish between fact and opinion. That’s entirely a trans advocate position.

— Cath Leng (@leng_cath) May 31, 2023

It’s not an opinion that men are not women, it’s a fact. That matters.

The first line told us what to expect: ‘a toxic culture war has been raging’ and later my personal teeth grinder – ‘toxic war of words.

It swiftly cites unquestioningly the contested concept of ‘gender identity’ – another red flag, signalling the producers’ default stance.

— Cath Leng (@leng_cath) May 31, 2023

The programme-makers were themselves either silenced, or complicit.

They were unable or unwilling to point out to the trans advocate contributors and the audience that actually, Stock and Bindel are correct about sex. They do not express views, they articulate facts.

— Cath Leng (@leng_cath) May 31, 2023

Pink News et al. please note.

One Response to “The refusal to distinguish between fact and opinion”

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Your Name's not Bruce?
May 31, 2023 at 10:57 am

…actually the Channel 4 program took a very trans activist-friendly view of the core issue.

Not good enough. Perceived “neutrality” is seen as outright hostility. Actual neutrality would have been even worse from the genderists’ perspective. Anything short of enthusiastic demonization and supression of critical voices is viewed as complicity in trans genocide.