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   Chronic-Yonic :flag_lesbian: (chronic-yonic@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 04:59:14 JST Chronic-Yonic :flag_lesbian:

   BBC under fire for putting trans contestant on gay dating show (Archived: https://archive.ph/i5JNY)

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     @HebrideanHecate Well that explains a whole lot!!!

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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 04:59:13 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @Chronic-Yonic Correction, it was actually 417, I had seen it reported as 500.

     From 2018

     https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/982116/bbc-transgender-staff-survey-lesbian-gay-bisexual-lgbt-diversity-uk-news

     The 417 employees, which represents more than one in 50 of its total workforce, was described by the executive behind the research as “very, very high”.

     He also revealed that 11 percent of BBC employees were lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), but said he still did not consider the Corporation to be diverse enough.

     Almost a quarter of its 21,239 staff declined to reveal their orientation and from the remainder, 2.2 percent said they were bisexual, 4.8 percent were gay men and 1.3 percent lesbian.

     Mr Ogungbesan said the BBC wants eight percent of its staff to be from the LGBT community by 2020.

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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 04:59:14 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @Chronic-Yonic BBC has lost its mind, mind you, they had over 500, and this was a good few years ago, trannies working on their staff, apparently, so there you go.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 04:59:54 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @HebrideanHecate @Chronic-Yonic I thought it was probably quicker to list the ones that weren't part of the rainbow alphabet.