30/3/22: BBC News has responded to complaints about an article that referred to a pensioner arrested for murder with female pronouns, saying this was within its style guide. It has now added a line to clarify the suspect “recently identified as a woman” (read more).
The BBC News style guide says the term and pronoun “preferred by the person in question” should be used, and that it “may also be appropriate to refer to a transition to make sense of some stories”.
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