{"id":81789,"date":"2023-11-24T23:04:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T23:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=81789"},"modified":"2023-11-24T23:04:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T23:04:35","slug":"fury-as-trans-woman-included-on-list-of-bbcs-most-influential-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/fury-as-trans-woman-included-on-list-of-bbcs-most-influential-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury as trans woman included on list of BBC&apos;s most influential women"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Fury as BBC includes transgender woman activist Rukshana Kapali on its annual list of 100 &#8216;inspiring and influential&#8217; women<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The BBC said Rukshana Kapali\u00a0 is a &#8216;transgender human rights activist&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A spokesperson said the BBC has included transgender people on lists before\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The BBC has sparked anger after it included a transgender woman on its annual 100 Women list for 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Critics claimed the decision to include activist Rukshana Kapali, from Nepal, on the list of \u2018inspiring\u2019 and \u2018influential\u2019 women was not \u2018fair\u2019 and \u2018insulting\u2019, with accusations the inclusion made the list \u2018meaningless\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s list includes a selection of women from many different fields, including well-known figures such as Michelle Obama and Amal Clooney.<\/p>\n<p>In its entry for the list, the BBC described Kapali as a \u2018housing campaigner\u2019 and a \u2018transgender human rights activist\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/22\/15\/78116917-12780013-image-a-49_1700668201940.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rukshana Kapali from Nepal, pictured, has been described by the BBC as a &#8216;transgender human rights activist&#8217; and included on a list of the year&#8217;s 100 most inspiring women<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/22\/15\/78117033-12780013-image-a-50_1700668423691.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Her inclusion on the list has received criticism for &#8216;taking a place away from another biological woman&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The description said she had \u2018embarked on her own path of self-education around the diversity of gender and sexuality\u2019 and \u2018came out as a teenager\u2019 and had been \u2018vocal on social media on issues around queer rights\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the third-year law student was involved in advancing \u2018legal and constitutional rights for LGBTQ+ people in Nepal\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>She comes from \u2018a historically marginalised caste\u2019 called the Jugi, within the Newa ethnicity and fights against this group\u2019s forced evictions from traditional homes.<\/p>\n<p>But the corporation\u2019s decision to include her on the list, which first launched in 2013, has not gone down well with women\u2019s rights activists and others.<\/p>\n<p>One woman, who advocates for \u2018women\u2019s sex based rights\u2019 attacked the decision, writing on X, formerly known as Twitter: \u2018But you have taken a place away from another biological women. This isn\u2019t right or fair.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/22\/16\/78117031-12780013-image-a-62_1700671740873.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The description said she had \u2018embarked on her own path of self-education around the diversity of gender and sexuality\u2019 and \u2018came out as a teenager\u2019 and had been \u2018vocal on social media on issues around queer rights\u2019<\/p>\n<p>They told the BBC to \u2018stop taking opportunities away from women\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Another critic added: \u2018WHY include a male in @BBC100women 2023 list?<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Surely it&#8217;s easy to compile a list of 100 influential &amp; inspiring WOMEN from around the world. Kapali could be recognised for his work to further LGBTQ rights but #BBC100Women isn&#8217;t the list for him &#8211; It&#8217;s for WOMEN.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Responding to one of the BBC\u2019s social media posts on the list, another woman replied: \u2018Except you had to include at least one man. How insulting. Men are better women than woman according to BBC.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>One said including a \u2018man\u2019 on the list \u2018makes the whole thing meaningless for the amazing actual women on there\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the BBC faced a similar row when it included two transgender activists on the 100 Women list.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/22\/15\/78114789-12780013-image-a-48_1700666114857.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A BBC spokesman said: \u2018Transgender women have previously been featured on the BBC 100 Women list many times, since the very first BBC 100 Women season was launched in 2013. The BBC 100 Women list also featured a transgender activist who identifies as non-binary in 2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 list included Erika Hilton, who was the first trans black woman to be elected to National Congress of Brazil, while Efrat Tilma was the Israeli police\u2019s first transgender volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>This decision was said to have divided opinion among some of the BBC\u2019s own journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC was recently at the centre of another trans controversy after it opened up a training course, created to increase the number of female production staff, to anyone identifying as a woman.<\/p>\n<p>The six-day course, called BBC: Female Self-Shooters, aimed to teach women how to become camera operators, a traditionally male-dominated role in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has yet to respond to the criticism.<\/p>\n<p>A BBC spokesman said: \u2018Transgender women have previously been featured on the BBC 100 Women list many times, since the very first BBC 100 Women season was launched in 2013. The BBC 100 Women list also featured a transgender activist who identifies as non-binary in 2019.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12780013\/Fury-BBC-includes-trans-women-list-influential.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fury as BBC includes transgender woman activist Rukshana Kapali on its annual list of 100 &#8216;inspiring and influential&#8217; women The BBC said Rukshana Kapali\u00a0 is a &#8216;transgender human rights activist&#8217; A spokesperson said the BBC has included transgender people on lists before\u00a0 The BBC has sparked anger after it included a transgender woman on its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fury as trans woman included on list of BBC&amp;apos;s most influential women - posterboyedit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/fury-as-trans-woman-included-on-list-of-bbcs-most-influential-women\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fury as trans woman included on list of BBC&amp;apos;s most influential women - posterboyedit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fury as BBC includes transgender woman activist Rukshana Kapali on its annual list of 100 &#8216;inspiring and influential&#8217; 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