The BBC has upheld 20 complaints over impartiality after presenter Martine Croxall altered a script she was reading live on the BBC News Channel which referred to “pregnant people” earlier this year.
Croxall was introducing an interview about research on groups most at risk during UK heatwaves, which quoted a release from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The presenter changed her script to instead say “women”, and the BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit said it considered her facial expression to express a “controverial view about trans people”.
The presenter said: “Malcolm Mistry, who was involved in the research, says that the aged, pregnant people … women … and those with pre-existing health conditions need to take precautions.”
