BBC bosses have defended airing a song encouraging listeners to ‘kick’ women with gender-critical views.
Listeners complained after 6 Music played They/Them by Dream Nails, which includes the line ‘Kick terfs all day, don’t break a sweat’.
Terf – trans-exclusionary radical feminist – is a term used as a pejorative against those who advocate for women but oppose transgender people using female-only spaces.
But dismissing the objections, a member of the BBC’s complaints team said: ‘People will interpret songs with any element of nuance or ambiguity differently.’
One furious complainant told the Mail: ‘It endorses an explicit violent threat on the grounds of sex and political belief yet the BBC would not remove it from their playlist.’
It comes as 6 Music was accused of ‘blatantly’ refusing to play Roisin Murphy’s songs after the singer publicly criticised puberty blockers.
The channel has played only a single track by the former Moloko frontwoman since she made the widely-criticised comments online.
The Irish singer was last featured on the channel on September 1, three days after her social media post.
Before that, her songs were played regularly and her album Hit Parade has remained at number two in the charts.
A BBC insider told the Mail: ‘It’s so blatant what they have done.’
Earlier this week 6 Music cancelled ten hours of shows celebrating Ms Murphy, with staff telling the Mail her comments were the reason behind her axing.
The programmes, part of a series called the 6 Music Artist Collection, were due to be aired between midnight and 5am next Monday and Tuesday before they were pulled.
Instead, new shows have been made, featuring rapper Little Simz.
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