JL at the Glinner Update goes into the BBC’s history of inclooooding men on its lists of women to celebrate:
In 2013 the BBC pledged that it would better represent women in its international news output and launched its 100 Women List.
A good idea! But so briefly.
But only a year later this initiative was totally undermined when the list included a drag character, Conchita Wurst, the onstage persona of an Austrian man called Thomas Neuwirth.
With a full beard and Fabulous eyelashes.
… Read the restIn 2016 The 100 Women List included trans-identified male, Seyan Arman, a DJ and entertainer from Turkey. In 2018 it featured trans-identified male, Ophelia Pastrana, “An outspoken transgender media personality” from Columbia. In