The BBC has been accused of being “detached” from “ordinary people” after it ignored calls by rival MPs to protect women’s rights.

Labour’s Rosie Duffield and Tory Miriam Cates have united to demand women are given greater safeguards in what has become a toxic clash with trans extremists.

The argument by the MPs, which was featured on the front page of Thursday’s Daily Express, did not get any coverage on the broadcaster’s news outlets – despite being by far the most read and liked story when it was posted on the BBC’s Twitter feed.

A subsequent front-page story on Friday has again been ignored by the BBC.

Critics said the move shows how the BBC does not represent the views of a large majority of the British public.

Conservative MP Sir John Hayes said: “There’s a huge issue with women and girls being made vulnerable by crazy, woke policies which are eliminating spaces like lavatories and changing rooms which women regard as safe.”

“The awful trend towards unisex facilities, and in particular the reluctance to stand up to militant transexual organisations and what they want, is resented and resisted by the overwhelming majority – almost everyone you speak to – and yet the liberal elite that runs too much of the establishment, including too much of the broadcast media, can’t grasp this because they’re so detached doing their privileged life from the fears and hopes, sentiments of ordinary, hard-working, patriotic and law-abiding people.”

Thursday’s Daily Express front page was posted on the corporation’s Twitter feed on Wednesday evening, below, and has since had 2,000 likes and more than 650,000 views.

It was by far the most commented upon story, with every other front page receiving under 200 comments, likes or retweets and below 190,000 views.

The version posted on the Express website has had more than 1,000 comments, and the newsdesk inbox has been flooded with readers eager to have their say.

But the article was ignored on the front page round-up on BBC Two’s flagship political programme Newsnight.

In the newspaper discussion slot on Radio 4’s Today programme, the presenters discussed a number of front pages but chose to ignore our crusade for women’s rights.

A BBC spokesman said: “The BBC has regularly reported on various aspects of the debates around women’s rights and will continue to do so, making independent editorial decisions on what to cover. We have featured the Express front pages online in our paper reviews.”

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