Writing for Vice News, former BBC LGBT correspondent Ben Hunte reported that a meeting was held between Phil Harrold, the head of the BBC director general's office, and around 100 LGBT+ BBC staff on 8 November over concerns about the corporation's LGBT+ policies, including over the article and over the number of resignations by LGBT+ staff in 2021. Hunte quoted one employee as saying, "People are getting to the point where they're asking—am I working for the bad guys?" In a meeting between BBC senior executives and BBC Pride leaked to i, head of news Fran Unsworth said that the BBC should have "thought harder about" the article and agreed that it would have been better handled by an LGBT correspondent. Hunte had left the BBC earlier in the year and not been replaced. During the meeting, Director-General Tim Davie responded to weeks of criticism over the BBC's coverage of trans people, including the Lowbridge article, saying "it is a serious issue if the BBC is perceived as transphobic."