Open Letter to the British Film Institute

This is an insult to creative women worldwide. Fix it!

Women should be given a platform to speak for ourselves.

This is unacceptable. What are you thinking?

We need to hear and SEE more from women.

Seriously BFI.

This decision is yet another slap in the face for women everywhere

I respect Munroe Bergdorf's right to identify into a woman's gender role but how can someone who was born and raised male talk about feminism in film. This person does not identify with women and can never represent them.

So are you saying there are no biological women worth doing this. Shame on you.

There many talented and neglected women in the film industry whose achievements leave Bergdorf's meagre efforts in the dust. Seems BFI prefers to jump on a virtue-signalling bandwagon than acknowledge the highly accomplished women working within a highly sexist industry.

This is an insult to female filmmakers

This is quite sinister. Choosing a male to talk about women's experience in the film industry is like choosing a black person who identifies as white, to talk about BME experience in the industry. It's pure misogyny and what I can see happening, is men simply identifying as women and then pushing women out of the spaces in the industry while claiming the spaces are being held by women. It stinks.

Could this be any more misogynistic?! Oh come on now. Level up, people.

At an event that ia about women film makers it seems odd to give such prominence to someone whose fame is down to a rather different cause.

Stop erasing women

For shame. This is a mockery of women's achievements.

What an insult to women in film everywhere

Why are insitutions so hell-bent on erasing women

Practise what you preach

There must be an actual woman who is better qualified.

Munroe Bergdorf is a biological male who has no place in feminism.