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Apparently the BBC (UK) has had 144 complaints about a recent episode of #DoctorWho because it contained an openly #trans character.
I'm going to make a complaint to the BBC that there weren't enough #transgender characters in Doctor Who. I would love if 144 other people did the same thing. Here's the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint
(For your easy reference: "The Star Beast" aired on 25/11/2023, BBC One, and the trans character is called Rose.)
Reply when you've done it, so we can count us all. When we get to 145, everyone... gets a free BLÅHAJ? 
Edit: 2 days later, mission successful: 159 complaints/comments submitted, and still climbing! A *huge* thank you everyone - stay tuned for hopefully some freedom of information requests!
![Screenshot of online form.
Select the best category to describe your complaint: Bias
What is the subject of your complaint? Not enough trans people.
Please enter your complaint, and please don’t add personal details such as your name, email or phone number in this field – we’ll ask you for those at the next stage.
Textbox: I am upset because Doctor Who only two transgender characters - Rose (Donna's daughter) and the Doctor. I think Doctor Who would be way better if there were more trans people in it. If we assume the Doctor is genderfluid kinda, and Rose is a trans woman, there should at least be a trans man in there somewhere!
Anyway, thank you for adding some trans representation, I appreciate it, and I'm sorry to hear you had complaints about Doctor Who being "too woke". Trans people are all over the shop in real life, it only makes sense to have them on TV every now and again too.
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105 boosts already! If half of those people have made a complaint we're a third of the way to the goal. :)
135 boosts, and 17 complaints. >:D
Also, I'm told you can take part even if you live outside of the UK, because the BBC provide services to many countries outside of the UK, including the USA! So, it's a lot more broad in audience than I realised. :)
554 boosts and 457 likes in 14 hours, but have I been on the mastodon.social Explore page? Nope, and the top one on there has 213 boosts and 207 likes.
I have to assume the mastodon.social Explore page moderation policy says "no calls to action" or something like that?? Because it's absolutely FULL of USA politics all day every day... https://mastodon.social/explore
Anyway, I've just finished counting responses from Fediverse people from overnight while I was asleep, and over on Tumblr I got reblogged by Diane Duane and Neil Gaiman so there are over 7,000 notes to go through.........!!!!!! I'll keep you posted. :D (im scared)
Okay, I've gone through all the replies here and on Tumblr.
90 people have confirmed that they've made a complaint or positive feedback submission about it, which is 62% of the way to 145. Only 55 more complaints to go!
Here's the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint Complain that there weren't enough trans characters, as we're trying to counter the 144 complaints about the presence of a trans woman in the episode.
(For your easy reference: "The Star Beast" aired on 25/11/2023, BBC One, and the trans character is called Rose.)
Reply when you've done it, so we can count us all. And please consider boosting the OP above!
It's now up to 132, which is 91% - and that's just 13 complaints left before we've sent more trans-supportive complaints/comments in 48 hours than the anti-trans people sent in 2 weeks!
According to my count we're now up to 156, which means we have submitted more comments/complaints in favour of *more* trans people in Doctor Who than the anti-trans people have submitted against trans people in Doctor Who. AMAZING!!
One potential plan is to wait for this BBC complaints page to update: https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaint-service-reports Hopefully that won't be too long after 17th December.
However, since the transphobes complaining about Doctor Who has been the topic of several articles lately, I might submit a Freedom of Information Act request sooner than that, and include a request for the number of comments submitted in favour of trans characters too (since that doesn't show up on the complaints count).
Then I might send a press release to every news website that published the "144 transphobes" non-news and see what happens. :D
@rysiek@mstdn.social@cassolotl interesting that the media decided to cover the transphobic complaints, but ignore the pro-trans ones?
@rysiek As far as I know there were under 100 pro-trans complaints about the trans-containing episode until I started getting involved so the BBC wouldn't have published them, and the BCC don't routinely publish compliment counts, and the BBC haven't published a fortnightly over-100-complaints disclosure since I started getting involved, so it's not at all surprising really!