Campaigners have hit out at the BBC over a storyline in a popular TV series featuring its first non-binary character talking about undergoing a double mastectomy.
The “Casualty” episode, which aired on BBC1 over the weekend, showed character Sah discussing details of upcoming “top surgery” and being presented with a surprise cake shaped like breasts.
Writing on Twitter, campaign group Safe Schools Alliance described the clip—which includes Sah speaking to paramedic colleagues about the decision—as a “new low” for the broadcaster.
The group also accused the BBC of “continually [appeasing] the ideologues in their organisation rather than engaging with experts who understand child development and safeguarding.”…