BBC upholds complaint against Martine Croxall over ‘pregnant people’ change

Thu, 06 Nov 2025

Newsreader’s raised eyebrows as she switched to ‘women’ suggested a viewpoint on trans identity, corporation says

The BBC has upheld a complaint against the newsreader Martine Croxall after she changed the term “pregnant people” to “women” and raised her eyebrows during a news channel broadcast in the summer.

The corporation said its executive complaints unit had upheld 20 complaints about the broadcast. It said Croxall’s facial expression “laid it open to the interpretation that it indicated a particular viewpoint in the controversies currently surrounding trans identity”.