Good Law Project sues Ofcom over failure to investigate TalkTV trans debates
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The Good Law Project has announced plans to take Ofcom to court, accusing the UK broadcasting regulator of failing to act against what it describes as misinformation and anti-trans rhetoric broadcast on TalkTV.
The legal challenge, announced by Good Law Project on 30 June, follows a complaint the organisation submitted in July 2025 which highlighted 11 separate broadcasts that it argued breached the Ofcom Broadcasting Code, citing that “presenters and guests spouted hate about the trans community” during these programmes.
The group claims the programmes contained misleading claims about trans people, lacked due impartiality, and failed to adequately protect audiences from harmful or offensive material.
Ofcom chose not to investigate 10 of the complaints, while opening an investigation into just one programme presented by Ian Collins on 30 June 2025.
The Good Law Project said in their announcement that “Ofcom brushed aside complaints about a programme where Alex Phillips smeared supporters of trans rights as ‘allowing a man with a gert beard to put on a frock and go into the Brownie tent’, and attacked trans women as ‘hulking great perverts going into children’s toilets’.”
The Good Law Project is now asking the High Court to review Ofcom’s decisions.
It argues the regulator failed to properly enforce its own broadcasting rules by deciding TalkTV had not misrepresented facts about trans people, that transgender issues didn’t require balanced coverage, and that offensive remarks were acceptable because of the context in which they were made.
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