Tim Davie has been accused of “still gaslighting” Britons in his resignation statement, after confirming his departure from the BBC.
Speaking to GB News, Director of Campaigns at Sex Matters, Fiona McAnena, hit out at the former broadcaster boss and his “catalogue of errors”.
Following a string of “bias” allegations, Mr Davie penned his resignation statement on Sunday, admitting there have been “some mistakes made”.
The ex-Director-General said: “I wanted to let you know that I have decided to leave the BBC after 20 years. While not being the only reason, the current debate around BBC News has understandably contributed to my decision.
Fiona McAnena hit out at Tim Davie’s ‘catalogue of failures’ following his resignation as BBC Director-General
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“Overall, the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made and as Director-General I have to take ultimate responsibility.”
Taking aim at Mr Davie’s statement, Ms McAnena told GB News: “It’s inevitable he had to go, didn’t he, because the failings are shocking.
“But if he calls that ‘some mistakes’, I’m afraid he’s still gaslighting us and trying to pretend that what happened didn’t happen. It’s a catalogue of errors, and more importantly, it’s gone on for over ten years.”
Citing issues the BBC had with “transgender ideology”, she explained: “The Trump issue is the headline, but the transgender misrepresentation is probably the most egregious, because they have been promoting an ideology that makes children unhappy.
“They’ve misrepresented puberty blockers as being ‘harmless’, and just a ‘pause button’, and I could go on, but this had to happen.”
Highlighting that Mr Davie’s resignation is “far from a solution” to the issues facing the BBC, Ms McAnena said: “These people who’ve resigned, they’re not the ones who wrote the ‘pregnant people’ scripts that Martine Croxall famously had to change.
“This is a beginning, but it’s very far from a solution to the problem.”
Citing two examples of gender ideology issues with the British broadcaster, Ms McAnena told host Josh Howie: “There are two examples that I think are worth just dwelling on because they represent the most harmful aspect of preying on the vulnerabilities of children.
Ms McAnena told GB News that you ‘can’t rely on anything the BBC says’
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“The ‘I Am Leo’ video documentary was made for children’s BBC, and it showed a girl who believed herself to be a boy and was put on I believe a full medical pathway by the Tavistock Gender Identity Clinic.
“The director of that clinic, Polly Carmichael, was on the show and she was talking gently about how puberty blockers were just a pause button, and it all sounded very lovely and very benign.
“But if that young person went on that pathway, it’s almost certain she then would have gone to cross-sex hormones, which would make her infertile.
“She would lose her sexual function, she would be sterile, she would have no ability to feel sexual pleasure.
“That is so far from benign. That film went out 11 years ago, and as I say, it was aimed at children. That’s hard to forgive, and it’s not just a mistake.”
She concluded: “The other example I would give you is the infamous ‘100 genders’ film. That was educational content from the BBC, and there’s a teacher who talks to children and says ‘nowadays there are over 100 genders’. Now that is BBC educational content.
“Primary school children were in the film and many people complained about that, and I was one of them.
“I was told in writing by the director of complaints at the BBC that teachers and children shouldn’t really take this stuff literally. I said to him, ‘well, what use is educational content from the BBC if it can’t be relied on, if it’s not true?’
“And actually, as an admission that I find it pretty shocking, because what does that mean, you can’t rely on anything they say?”