BBC has named a biological male - also known as just a male, to those who don’t need a distinguisher - to its list of Top 100 Inspiring Women. And let’s just say, while expensive cosmetic surgery and artificial hormones can make things a little tricky these days, this dude isn’t fooling anyone.
This is Brigitte Baptiste, one of the BBC’s women of the year picks. Another breathtakingly insulting move from the woman-haters at the BBC. pic.twitter.com/3QbZVLAWPR
— Kate Barker-Mawjee (@KateBMwriting) December 3, 2024
Brigitte Baptiste, a trans-identifying Colombian scientist, has been added to the BBC’s list because, as the publication puts it, he uses a “queer lens to analyse landscapes and species in a bid to expand the notion of ‘nature’ to better protect ecosystems.”
What does that pile of nonsensical sounds mean? In a nutshell - pun intended - it means Baptiste has devoted his life and his scientific study to trying to prove nature is “queer,” including having “discovered ‘transsexual’ palm trees,” the Telegraph explains.
“On this basis, she argued that it was wise to do away with ideas of ‘naturalness’ in nature, stating: “There is nothing more queer than nature," the report continues.
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Baptiste is included on the list alongside Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch, the first black woman to lead a major UK political party, as well as American astronaut Sunita Williams, a Bangladeshi teacher named Rikta Akter Banu who teaches and advocates for disabled and autistic children in the face of local taboos, and a French rape survivor named Gisèle Pelicot who publicly faced down her multiple abusers in a public court.
This isn’t the first time the BBC has added men to its list of top notable ladies - in fact, they’ve made quite the annual habit of making sure at least one gender-confused man is on the roll call. Last year the BBC’s list included a Nepalese trans-identifying activist named Rukshana, who was honored by the BBC for fighting to legally change his gender to “female,” despite not actually being one. The year before that, the list included a black man who believes himself to be a woman and the first trans-identifying person to be elected to Brazil’s National Congress, along with Efrat Tilma, the first gender-confused man who’d volunteered for the Israeli police.
But hey, being a man who says you’re a woman apparently ranks you up there with abuse survivors who defend the right of actual women to seek justice for their rapists, or human rights activists who fight for disabled kids. It’s all basically the same thing.
Sure.