The Good Law Project has announced plans to take Ofcom to court over the UK broadcasting regulator’s failure to act against what it calls misinformation and anti-trans rhetoric broadcast on TalkTV.
legal challenges; announced The June 30 report by the Good Law Project follows a complaint lodged by the group in July 2025, alleging that 11 separate broadcasts were in breach of Ofcom Broadcasting Act because “presenters and guests spewed hate against the trans community” during their programmes.
The group claims the show contains misleading statements about transgender people, lacks due impartiality and fails to adequately protect viewers from harmful or offensive content.
Ofcom chose not to investigate 10 of the complaints, but only opened an investigation into one program, lodged by Ian Collins on 30 June 2025.
In a statement, the Good Law Project said: “Ofcom has dismissed complaints about a show in which Alex Phillips denigrated trans rights supporters as ‘allowing men with girt beards to enter the Brownie tent in frocks’ and attacked trans women as ‘giant perverts who enter children’s toilets'”.
The Good Law Project is now asking the High Court to review Ofcom’s judgment.
The regulator claims that TalkTV did not misrepresent facts about transgender people, that transgender issues do not require balanced reporting, that it found offensive language acceptable because of its context and failed to properly enforce its own broadcast rules.
Please share your thoughts! Let us know in the comments section below. Please keep the conversation respectful.
Source: PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news – www.thepinknews.com
