An individual who was born male, but transgendered to become female, has been arrested after her neighbour heard them listening to Woman’s Hour and made a police complaint.
It isn’t clear at this stage if they will be charged, or under which offence, but a BBC spokesperson told Newsbiscuit 'It should be obvious from the programme’s name that anyone who isn’t legally a woman, shouldn’t be listening to Woman's Hour.'
We asked the BBC if it had plans to broadcast a programme to cater for the interests of transgender people. A BBC spokesperson, who politely declined to say which gender they identify as, explained that the BBC had to comply with the law and its own strict equality rules. It would therefore be necessary to have separate additional programmes to cater for transgender women as well transgender men; possibly even transgender hermaphrodites. They noted that a decision has still to be made about whether a 1923 proposal for a programme called Man’s Hour can go ahead, and advised us they wouldn’t hold their breath, if they were us.
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An MP has tabled a bill to change the way terms and conditions, especially those involving finance, are broadcast on radio.
'You listen to an advert extolling how sexy you will look in a new car from a mainstream manufacturer, or how much interest you will earn on an investment and then the critical Ts & Cs are rushed through without a break in the words. It satisfies the law as it's written,' the MP stated,' but it isn't right so I've submitted a bill to stop this happening.'
He added,
'thebillmightnotsucceedandifitdoesitmaynotachievethedesiredeffectyourfirstbornisatriskandthevalueofparliametarybillscangoupordown.'