LAST NOVEMBER, THE BBC DECIDED TO “do better”. It dumped Stonewall, bringing to an end a close relationship that had helped to shape the national broadcaster’s output. That relationship had led to the BBC joining Stonewall’s contentious Workplace Equality Index, with the charity advising the corporation how to gain points to rise up the index, for example, by using gender-neutral language in the workplace, and asking staff to adopt personal pronouns in their communications with each other.
The charity was even mentioned in the BBC’s LGBT Culture and Progression Report in 2018, which — predictably — recommended that the BBC work harder to ensure it made it into the top 100 of the Workplace Equality Index.
The parting of ways between the BBC and Stonewall came after both the Crown Prosecution Service and the Equality and Human Rights Commission had cut ties with the activist charity. In taking the decision, the BBC’s Director-General, Tim Davie,
