BBC Employs 417 Transgenders, 1000 Lesbians & 'Gays' and 365 Bisexuals. - 1 in 50 are Transgenders..

The BBC has more than 400 transgender staff, a confidential internal survey has revealed.

The figure represents more than one in 50 of the workforce – about four times higher than the proportion in the population at large.

And it stunned the BBC executive behind the research, who described the total number of trans employees, at 417, as 'very, very high'.
But Tunde Ogungbesan, the BBC's director of diversity, has now launched a major reform to make the Corporation MORE 'trans-friendly' following the findings.

Mr Ogungbesan also revealed that 11 per cent of BBC employees were lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

But he said he did not regard the BBC as diverse enough, claiming MORE lesbians were needed.

Nicola Williams, from feminist group Fair Play For Women – which objects to men being able to self-identify as women – said she was concerned about possible changes to the Corporation's output.

'The BBC already refers to trans women as 'women' without challenging the idea,' she said.

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