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BBC Newsreader Rejects Trans Jargon Live on Air

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Praise for the UK presenter who resisted using the phrase 'pregnant people.'

A British Broadcasting Corporation newsreader made an on-air correction to “pro-trans” language during a TV news report on Sunday, June 22nd. Faced with a culturally ‘sensitive’ but scientifically illiterate teleprompter script, Martine Croxhall added a quick correction of her own.

As part of coverage of a rare British heatwave, the BBC news autocue was prepared to deliver this statement

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