A TRANSGENDER and queer affinity group has protested outside the BBC offices.
A number of speakers spoke to the crowd through megaphones, while others held signs, chanted, set off smoke bombs and stuck post-it notes on the outside of the building.
The protest, organised by the Reclaim Pride Brighton, began outside the BBC offices in Queens Road in Brighton at 1pm on Saturday, November 11.
In a statement released on Twitter, Trans Brighton Pride said: “BBC have been diving head first into full-blown hate speech.
“They’re sustained attacks of Stonewall and support of transphobic hate groups has gone too far.
“A recent article platformed a TERF that claims that trans women are sexual predators, presenting an eliminationist hate group as reasonable journalism.
“One of their sources of this article has advocated explicitly for the murder of transgender people. We will not allow this to continue.
“There has been protests across the country in recent weeks, and we’re calling out the queer communities in and around Brighton to come out and demonstrate with us.
“We are a community united against institutionally-backed eliminationism.
“It will not deter us. It will not divide us. It will not defeat us. And we’re gonna prove it.”
The protest was titled Fight BBC Transphobia.
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