The Telegraph reports that the BBC director general has told MPs that it’s no big deal that the BBC forces its reporters to lie about the sex of Our Trans Siblings.

Tim Davie, BBC director general, accused people of “whipping up” outrage as he defended the corporation’s stance on the topic.

The BBC last month upheld a complaint against Today programme presenter Justin Webb after he described trans women as “males”. The broadcaster’s Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU) found Webb had broken impartiality rules after a listener complained the comments amounted to a personal opinion.

But of course it’s not a personal opinion, in the sense of not being an impersonal fact. It is precisely an impersonal fact that men are not women. You could change the words “men” and “women” to whatever arbitrary collection of letters you liked, but the fact behind the words would remain the same.

It’s disturbing that the head honcho of a major news organization doesn’t realize it’s not an “opinion” that men are not women.

Gender-critical activists who believe that sex is biological have accused the public service broadcaster of falling short in its impartiality obligations.

No no no no no, stop. Stop doing that. We don’t “believe” sex is biological. This isn’t some silly personal whim of ours. Go ask some bears, or some swans, or some crows. We know “sex is biological” and we know the BBC knows “sex is biological” and is lying about it and trying to force us to lie about it with them. That’s not going to happen, Beeb.

The Telegraph reported that senior female members of staff have written to Mr Davie to express their concerns about the decision. One wrote: “If the BBC is to censure journalists for being factual we are slipping into very dangerous waters.”

See? Factual. It’s not a god damn “belief” so stop saying it is. The “belief” is that men can be women; the reality is they can’t.

This is how much this horrific ideology has eroded the ability to distinguish between opinion and fact even of outlets like the Telegraph that aren’t generally considered trendy-lefty.

Mr Davie said he did not believe the BBC suffered from institutional bias on trans issues, but added that it was “an area of controversy”. He said: “It’s also an area where I think we need to have confidence in our journalists to ask, talk, discuss these issues. We don’t have no-go areas in the BBC.”

Oh puhleeeeze.

The director general added: “We have to be kind and caring in this and listen to people and be nice.”

Meaning they have to be nice to trans people and their “allies.” They do not have to be nice to women. God no; what an idea.