UPDATE: BBC says host broke broadcasting rules with facial expression while refusing to call women “pregnant people”

Remember this from back in June?

We told you it takes guts to simply state the truth, and boy were we correct.

Nearly five months later, the BBC has come back and told us that Martine Croxall "broke the rules" of the BBC by making a facial expression during this report.

Yes, she's in trouble for making a face when reading absolute, as the Brits would say, rubbish.

The BBC has upheld 20 impartiality complaints over the way presenter Martine Croxall altered a script she was reading live on the BBC News Channel, which referred to 'pregnant people' earlier this year.
Croxall was introducing an interview about research on groups most at risk during UK heatwaves, which quoted a release from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
The presenter changed her script to instead say 'women', and the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) said it considered her facial expression as she said this gave the 'strong impression of expressing a personal view on a controversial matter.'

Her facial expression led people to believe that she doesn't think non-women can get pregnant? And that's a problem?

She got to treat it with straightforward and impartial analysis, like this famous young reporter:

But even that will get you canceled by the BBC.

The ECU said Croxall's facial expression after she said 'pregnant people' had been ‘variously interpreted by complainants as showing disgust, ridicule, contempt or exasperation.'
It added that 'congratulatory messages Ms Croxall later received on social media, together with the critical views expressed in the complaints to the BBC and elsewhere, tended to confirm that the impression of her having expressed a personal view was widely shared across the spectrum of opinion on the issue'.

Oh, well, we might have contributed to that. Sorry, Martine.

At least Croxall isn't being fired, at this point, for her common sense. But she is being punished.

It explained that ‘giving the strong impression of expressing a personal view on a controversial matter, even if inadvertently, falls short of the BBC's expectations of its presenters and journalists in relation to impartiality, the ECU upheld the complaints'.
The finding was reported to management of BBC News and discussed with Ms Croxall and the editorial team concerned.