BBC Rebukes Newsreader Who Corrected ‘Pregnant People’ to ‘Women’
7th November 2025
A newsreader who went viral after she made a face while changing the word “pregnant people” to “women” during a live broadcast has been found to have broken BBC impartiality rules.
Martine Croxall made the expression as she changed her script in an introduction to an interview with an assistant professor about groups most at risk during UK heatwaves.
Croxall won a legion of fans following the live broadcast, including author JK Rowling.
The broadcaster’s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU), however, considered her facial expression expressed a “controversial view about trans people”.