BBC Gender Correspondent Tried to Block Coverage of Trans Criticism
7th November 2025
The BBC’s “gender and identity correspondent” sought to block coverage of a campaign group aiming to protect women-only spaces, The Telegraph can reveal.
Megha Mohan, who has held the specialist role since 2018, emailed a co-worker raising concerns about their plans to film a debate by the group Woman’s Place UK.
In the email – sent months after she started her role – Ms Mohan wrote: “There’s some concern from LGBT+ about giving this group a platform, they are seen as a more extreme organisation that we would be legitimizing (sic).”
In a follow-up email, she added: “A couple of LGBT contacts have told me about Woman’s Place and called them transphobes in the past.”Woman’s Place UK was set up in 2017 by a group of women from the labour and trade union movement to defend women’s rights and safeguard single-sex spaces and services. It closed down last year after stating it had largely achieved its original aims.
The BBC’s proposed coverage of the group in 2018 was never published.