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Veteran broadcaster John Humphrys, 76, says the BBC is too sympathetic on transgender issues

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Veteran broadcaster John Humphrys, 76, says the BBC is too sympathetic on transgender issues and believes ‘we are born men and women’The veteran broadcaster was speaking at the Cheltenham Literature FestivalHe made clear that he believes the BBC was looking ‘through a particular lens’He added that he thinks ‘there are not an unlimited number of genders’By Raven Saunt For Mailonline Published: 20:32 EDT, 6 October 2019 | Updated: 04:41 EDT, 7 October 2019 Veteran broadcaster John Humphrys (pictured at the Cheltenham Literature Festival) has accused the BBC of being sympathetic to transgender issues Veteran broadcaster John Humphrys has accused the BBC of being sympathetic to transgender issues and said: ‘I believe we are born men and women’. The 76-year-old, who left the Today programme this month, was speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival when he said that he believed the corporation was out of touch with public opinion.  Mr Humphrys said he believed the BBC was looking at the transgender issue ‘through a particular lens’.He added: ‘If you take something like transgender, the [BBC bosses] mindset is such that we must kind of accept what the prevailing view is, except that their idea of the prevailing view and perhaps mine and some other people’s might be slightly different.’ He went on to say: ‘I happen to believe, personally, that there are not an unlimited number of genders. I believe we are born men and women. ‘I also believe there are people… who are born into the wrong body and they must be helped, obviously.’However, I feel slightly worried when large numbers of children, I emphasise children, are being told you might be a girl or you think you might be a boy, we’ll go and get you medical attention.  The former host of Radio 4’s Today programme said that he believed the BBC was looking ‘through a particular lens”I’m uneasy about that and I’m uneasy about children being told in schools there are more than 100 different genders and it’s possible for someone to change gender overnight. ‘I’m worried about where it is heading.’The BBC’s attitude with that sort of social development is to be immediately sympathetic, not entirely detached, as it should be.’Humphrys was speaking at the festival to promote his memoir after finally retiring from the Today programme. 
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